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Creative use for empty whiskey bottles
Japala writes "You might have seen computers built inside of toasters, radios, garden lamps etc. As motherboards keep getting smaller and smaller the possibilites on where you can embed then increases. As it turns out, you can get them to fit inside an empty glass bottle. Whisky PC for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server."
So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?
I thought they were going to try and rollup the motherboard and unfurl the memorysticks and processor once inside.
Instead they just cut a hole in it.
liqbase
well, it is certainly more portable and better looking than your average tower. I think that there could well be a market for these things, in all different types of bottles or shaped glass cases... If you wanted to go all out you could put a plasma screan on the side... set it to show the original label as a screan saver if you want to go all out...
I wonder if it's kept its nice wiskey smell...
*''I can't believe it's not a hyperlink.''
Because, as we all know, a noisy server can exacerbate a throbbing hangover ...
The article just says that the board is an "industrial 3.5" SBC board". Does anybody know the model number, and where one could buy this board?
It'll stay cool, if it gets too many requests it'll just tell you to piss off.
And if it does go down, hey, its only passed out, and not burning in flame.
I don't get it.
Put a fish in it :O)
I've got an empty 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels that one of my alky loving friends gave to me. I've been meaning to put a fish in there for a while now.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Is there any site that lists all the motherboards and components you can use to build these tiny machines? I've seen mini-itx.com, but it's very hard to navigate to specific boards, cases, psu's etc. It's mostly a news site, and it seems like if you don't keep up with it every day you'll have no idea what's up. So, where do you go to find these little things? I'd love to build a PC based alarm clock.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
They should have done it ship-in-a-bottle style.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
A chip in a bottle!
Would that make it a bar tender?
No...! Nothing less than Single Malt is good enough for my computer. Make that a cask.
For a small fee, I will drink the whiskey for you... giving you a perfectly usable emptpy bottle! You may then mod to your hearts content!
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
aah, now i know why windows is acting drunk..
How do you think he keeps his son quiet at night?
http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.83/it.A /id.369/.f
I bet it would fit just fine.
But a breakable glass case? While it looks cool, no thanks...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I like the concept, but cutting holes for fans was cheap.
Putting sufficient airpressure in the top usually pops the bottom off a glass bottle, look at the mould marks in any spirit or beer bottle to see the join. To apply such pressure, decend the palm of your hand onto a bottle mostly filled with water, should make a clean break.
Fill the bottles to different levels, form a band, and recreate Windows theme sounds.
While your at it, rebrand Windows Vista:
"Windows Redneck" with the slogan "You ain't ever seed Windows this clean(tm)"
"Windows Whiskey" with the slogan "Computing, soo you cann drinnk at the sssspeed of your buss, busi, work.(tm)"
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
It's not a true whiskey-computer till that sucker's whiskey-cooled!
Remember kids, with great power comes great opportunity to abuse that power
You should be able to drop one of those SIMM sized linux modules in the mouth of a Mickey's Big Mouth. If only they had an equally small wireless module, you might fit the whole thing including enough AA batteries to run for a few days and have a working linux bottle with the cap on.
Next step: Wrapping a flask around a mouse.
"I tried to cut and drill couple of similar bottles at home but I realized that my tools are not good enough for it, then finaly a professional glass grinder man prepared the whisky bottle for me."
Right. Your inability to cut holes in the bottle couldn't possibly have had anything to do with your method of emptying the bottle, could it?
Flambe!!!
*Bananas Foster not included.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
AP News (12:44pm - EST) - Tragic Death of Geek
Tragically a young geek lost his (albeit lonely) life last night after starting a fire in his room of his parent's house. It would seem that the young and impetuous geek decided after reading an article on the technology news website "Slashdot," that building a computer out of a used whiskey bottle would be a good idea. However, upon emptying the bottle (and his bladder several times), the poor geek forgot to wash the bottle out and promptly started a fire the moment he turned his new "Whiskey PC" on and sadly, perished in the blaze.
Memorial services will be held in your MMORPG of choice in that "one zone."
the most impressive thing to me is the side panel with all the connectors. that is really amazing. he could sell those things at specialty shops or the sharper image or harrods or something for a fortune. as a side note, this is the only modding project i've seen that i'd ever bring up at a party.
This mod, while very cool, would make an excellent semi-portable monitoring device, say, to keep an eye on the stockroom at your restaurant or whatever. Stuff some kind of thin webcam in the bottle neck, lay it on it's side, headless (cords to the wall, somehow) and you'd have an inconspicuous camera that can store images/video locally or ftp them somewhere remote (then you could skip the laptop drive altogether and run the whole thing off the CF card, perhaps allowing a smaller bottle), and looks like an empty bottle on a shelf. Extra points if you mount it in a wine rack with a few real bottles.
;)
Of course, you could also probably break an empty bottle, drop in one of those wireless network cameras, and glue it back together, but that wouldn't be half as cool.
Stasis is death. Embrace change.
On Page 3 he tells you he used a 60W mini-tix PSU.
Since you can see (Pg. 4) that he's using a powerbrick, he coulda gone with the PicoPSU
Wouldn't have been as cramped in that bottle.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
"No officer, I'm not drinking, I'm analysing radio signals to help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence."
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
...PDA in a hip flask.
In practice, "great wizard" is far more commonly used than any formal title, because if you can't buy the right shape piece of glass off-the-shelf, then you need to find someone to grovel before. I know of at least one research project that was derailed for almost three years when the previous master retired "unexpectedly" at the ripe age of 80, and his 35-year old Journeyman assistant who got promoted didn't have half a century of expertise under his belt. Requests that the old guy used to craft flawlessly in one day, the new guy sometimes needed four to get what they wanted exactly right... or worse, almost but not quite exactly right.
Which just goes to show, loss of critical personnel isn't only a problem in IT.
Take a glass cilinder, then take SBC with memory, cables and all stuff mounted, and place it inside small asbestos bag. Then push that bag into bottle, bag mouth hole to cylinder bottom. Then heat up cylinder mouth, and fuse it into bottle neck. Asbestos bag will protect board from the heat. Now you just pull asbestos bag through bottle neck, pull the wires attached to it through bottle neck, and voila - you have intact bottle with SBC inside, and cables to connect outside.
;-)
No air flow inside a bottle though, so you need to choose fairly cool CPU for this.
To bad i don't have any friends with glass blower skills and facility to try it
A Scotsman who spells
Whisky with a n 'e',
should be hand cuffed
and thrown head first in the Dee.
In the USA and Ireland,
it's spelt with an 'e'
but in Scotland
it's real 'Whisky'.
So if you see Whisky
and it has an 'e',
only take it,
if you get it for free!
For the name is not the same
and it never will be,
a dram is only a real dram,
from a bottle of 'Scotch Whisky'.
Stanley Bruce.
20th April 2004
An empty whiskey bottle is good for hittin' arseholes over the head when they call us Irishmen a bunch of violent drunks!
How ya like dat?
Just in case anyone is interested...
;)
The article blurb gets it right once and wrong once. I checked TFA and he used a Ballantine's bottle. Ballantine's is a Scotch, which is a type of whisky (without the E). Other whiskies/whiskeys use different spellings:
Scotch whisky
Irish whiskey
Rye whiskey
Tennessee whiskey
Canadian whisky
Bourbon
And now you know the rest of the story.
(Fo'shizzle, Seymour Crazizzle.)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Yes, I have an idea. A long time ago, the FCC cared a great deal about electromagnetic compliance of digital devices. It used to require that any PC sold be compliance tested for both radiation and succeptibility to RF interference. It used to be that a machine had to be tested complete, with all components installed. Well, that became impractical with the advent of do-it-yourself computers. There was no law preventing people from building their own computers. So, then the FCC backed off to simply requiring the "barebone" to be compliance tested in order to be sold. This would be a case/motherboard combination. Again, this hurt small businesses as it cost an arm and a leg to do anything dealing with the government. I can speak from first-hand experience that it could cost up to $100K to have a PC type-accepted in the early 90's. The process involved a consulting firm, lawyers, lobbyists, and all kinds of government corruption. Your consulting firm would do the tests, and hire their lawyers to petition the FCC. It would take some discrete intervention on the part of the lobbyist to "encourage" the officer at the FCC to approve the application.
Finally, they did away with government-regulated type acceptance all together and switched to the honor system. Now, it's a free for all with a catch. PCs still have to be tested to comply with FCC standards, but there is no direct oversight. However, if you build and sell a PC and it ends up interfering, and you cannot demonstrate that you had that configuration tested, you are quite literally up the creek as the FCC will descend upon you like locusts and take every penny you have and will ever make.
In any case, this thing is probably an RF nightmare. Glass is nearly transparent to RF, so the bottle will let anything in or out. There is a switching power supply used in this thing, several actually, and they tend to be the "gatling gun" of radiated interference.