Tubby: When Custom Cases Meet Frosty Cold Beer

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."

Comments

Awe Scweet

[alop]

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

Re:Awe Scweet

[Anonymous Coward]

And you can cook it with your pentium 4 processor!

Re:Awe Scweet

[Profane MuthaFucka]

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.

Re:Awe Scweet

[Albanach]

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.

Re:Awe Scweet

[Megahurts]

>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.

Re:Awe Scweet

[ajrs]

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

sort of a thermal pastry?

wow

[no-arg constructor]

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 :)

Frames

[somethinghollow]

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.

Tubby?

[britneys 9th husband]

"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.

I want a KEG

[DarthTeufel]

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

Re:I want a KEG

[Titusdot Groan]

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.

not cold for long

[Vampo]

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

Can you say 'ugly'?

[tuxlove]

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

What's the big deal?

[grawk]

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.

THIS lazy!

[mekkab]

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!

The next obvious step:

[burgburgburg]

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.

OI! Article Submitters!

[bigHairyDog]

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

Big deal...

[atomic-penguin]

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

Show some real vision...

[sunrein]

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.

PDA Bong

[crapnutassneck]

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

I`ll raise you...

[choas]

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...