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Tubby: When Custom Cases Meet Frosty Cold Beer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

trs9000 writes "Going a step further than your average case mod, Tubby includes not only a nice wooden casing, but also a built-in refrigerator! You dont have to get up for a refill! Tubby's homepage has specs and pics of the process. Images are also here and here."

33 of 129 comments (clear)

  1. Awe Scweet by alop · · Score: 5, Funny

    All that's left now is a pizza sized oven, and I'll be set :)

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    1. Re:Awe Scweet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      And you can cook it with your pentium 4 processor!

    2. Re:Awe Scweet by ack154 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You can probably just use the server after we're done with it... that should cook just about anything.

    3. Re:Awe Scweet by FortKnox · · Score: 2, Funny

      of course you have to install all of it in the bathroom... to truely game on 'the throne'! ;-)

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    4. Re:Awe Scweet by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 4, Interesting

      When I was a kid my sister had an EZ Bake oven that used a 60 watt light bulb to make little cakes. A Pentium IV puts out more heat than that, so that would make an interesting mod.

      OK, I lied. The EZ bake oven was mine. I'm man enough to admit it.

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    5. Re:Awe Scweet by Albanach · · Score: 4, Informative
      Pizza ovan? That's so 1996!

      Acorn did it with their Risc PC photo here

      Of course if you have an ovan, you'll also need the kitchen sink.

    6. Re:Awe Scweet by Megahurts · · Score: 4, Informative

      >When I was a kid my sister had an EZ Bake oven
      >that used a 60 watt light bulb to make little
      >cakes. A Pentium IV puts out more heat than
      >that, so that would make an interesting mod.

      yeah, but the EZ bake bulb's filament burns at something like 5000-6000 Kelvins to put out enough infrared to do its cooking. The pentiums, by comparison, will run around 325-340 K, and the wavelengths emitted will be far too long to be useful for cooking. By Wien's Law, the peak wavelength would be around 8.5 micrometers whereas with tungsten filament bulb. With the nature of the falloff toward the blue side of the peak radiation in the Stefan-Boltzman distribution at a given temperature, almost all of the energy would be wasted at wavelengths too long to really heat most substances. You would need good thermal contact to do it at those temperatures.

    7. Re:Awe Scweet by ajrs · · Score: 4, Funny

      > You would need good thermal contact to do it at those temperatures.

      sort of a thermal pastry?

  2. Mmmmm.... by JessLeah · · Score: 2, Funny

    Computerized Beeeeerr....

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  3. wow by no-arg+constructor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    how lazy are we that we can't even walk two inches to the fridge for a beer between games? nowadays most games take forever to change levels (for an fps) so thats plenty of time to get your snacks :)

  4. Frames by somethinghollow · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least he used frames, so while his site slowly bogs down to tortise speeds, and eventually dies a horrible death, I can still look at the navigation.

  5. Tubby? by britneys+9th+husband · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Tubby" sounds like what will happen to the user of this as a result of grabbing food all the time without even getting up off his ass and walking 10 feet to the refrigerator.

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  6. I want a KEG by DarthTeufel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'll be impressed, when they get a keg in there. Or better yet, just have cold beer on tap, with your computer calculating when to shut off, after 16 oz and stuff

    1. Re:I want a KEG by Titusdot+Groan · · Score: 5, Funny
      What a great idea! But what I want it to do is drop my VPN to work and stop me from emailing after after about 36oz ...

      I don't need it to stop me posting to /. or anything like that.

  7. full service computer by stanmann · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now all we need is automated food delivery, and a catheter/padded toilet and we can read slashdot for years without getting up.

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    1. Re:full service computer by somethinghollow · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, we're 1/2 way there.

  8. not cold for long by Vampo · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the site is running on that machine, that beer will be boiling by now... Too bad it's gone down already.

  9. Can you say 'ugly'? by tuxlove · · Score: 3, Funny

    That mod is so 70's. They should have used burlwood for the exterior to complete the image!

  10. What's the big deal? by grawk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok, I'd understand how it was cool if the peltier cooler from the fridge was part of the cooling system for the computer. But what's the big deal about putting a fridge in a box with a computer? It doesn't add functionality, it doesn't share anything sigificant in the way of function, and it's just plywood, taboot.

    If the case used the same cooling for both the hardware and the beer, now that would be something interesting. As it is, it's just a 7th grade wood shop project.

  11. Why don't they... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    find a way to channel all of the processor heat into my cup of coffee? (That would make a good use for all of these overclocking schemes.)

  12. THIS lazy! by mekkab · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use This container for beer so I don't have to go back to the fridge.

    I also wear Depends undergarments. I never have to leave my computer!

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  13. The next obvious step: by burgburgburg · · Score: 3, Funny
    A catheter which would be a component of a liquid cooling system.

    Not only would you never have to "get up", but you'd actually be cooling your own computer by your sloth.

  14. OI! Article Submitters! by bigHairyDog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have you noticed how every case mod story gets put on a flimsy hosting setup and gets slashdotted in 2 minutes?

    USE FREECACHE!

    Then we might actually be able to look at it
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  15. Beer and programming? by TheVidiot · · Score: 2, Interesting



    I wonder how many people go for an intoxicant whilst programming. If you do, does it help your creativity and productivity?

    1. Re:Beer and programming? by larsu · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only on variable names. Especially in basic

      10 print "foo"
      20 goto hell

      hell:
      30 print "bar"

    2. Re:Beer and programming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Here's what I end up coding when I'm drunk:

      /* I'm so shit-faced I must be a weeny since I can only write this freaking comment! */

  16. Big deal... by atomic-penguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here in these quiet Appalachian Hills, my computer doubles as a moonshine still.

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  17. Show some real vision... by sunrein · · Score: 3, Funny
    I'd expand on the idea. Add a sink and oven, maybe a bed and bathroom, oh and a home theater. That'd be really cool! You'd have to put it in a much larger wooden case though.

    Let's see, what should we call the project...

    How about...

    a house.

  18. PDA Bong by crapnutassneck · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think the beer computer case is good, you should see his PDA bong.

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  19. I`ll raise you... by choas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I`ll raise you a fridge in an SGI: http://home.planet.nl/~mourits/koelkast/

    Actually that guy deserves his own frontpage story, but I already tried submitting it, no reaction...

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  20. Infidel by jayblam · · Score: 2

    You'd drink a lovely stout COLD? Fat stupid hobbit! You ruins it!

  21. coincidence? I think not! by yecrom2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    When this story first liste, my slashdot fortune showed the following:

    I will not drink!
    But if I do...
    I will not get drunk!
    But if I do...
    I will not in public!
    But if I do...
    I will not fall down!
    But if I do...
    I will fall face down so that they cannot see my company badge.

    I didn't even know that they would allow these at work!

    Matt

  22. Sealab anyone? by Psymunn · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It's not a toy. It makes real capcakes with a 40 watt bulb and little packages of icing. But the secret ingredient is Love ...dammit" - Captain Murphey

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