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Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat
Steve Kerrison writes "Desperate times call for desperate measures, but I'd like to think of this as more of an exercise in cunning. It's hot, but I'm not, thanks to an Icy-Box and a Panaflo. This was nearly categorised as hardware hacking, but then the only 'hacking' required was the removal of four thumb-screws."
Er... it's called a fan... I was at least hoping for something more high-tech, like Peltiers and stuff :)
That's a better solution to this summer's heat... with Vista and DNF REALLY REALLY likely to get shipped soon, it should be quite cool in Hell.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
How in god's name was this article accepted? HE PLUGGED A FAN INTO A POWER LEAD! WOW!
Alert the media.
Honestly. That seems to be about the most silly thing I have seen in ages.
A floor ventilator around the corner from where I am sitting, goes at about $30.
Smaller models (like the one he is using) goes as low as $10-15.
If your time worth so little (and remember, the FTA says its for those that _has_ to work) that this is a solution for you, find a better paying job!
Wow.. He took a case fan and powered it from a, uh, power supply. But that's not all that impressive. One time, at band camp, I attached a CD-ROM drive and used power from *ANOTHER* power supply sitting in a *DIFFERENT* machine. And once, at a hacker convention (well, at my friend's house really), we super-hacked a a PS2 mouse to work with a USB interface by using an adapter we rigged (well, it came with the mouse actually).
So I have to guess the other comments.
He attached a fan to an electrical supply?
All I can say is, as an article, that blows.
Wow, I really didn't expect the Slashdot editors to accept my submission of this. Still, this is what happens when you can't be arsed to go out and buy some proper cooling. Take it at face value folks, it's just a bit of light humour! I'll just sit here staying cool.
...would use a superfluid to keep themselves cool. They would also draw upon inspiration to explain the birth of the universe from it.
/. decides to publish something that was born of a jobless geek's attempt to soothe his fevered brow while entertaining himself watching pornography."
Alternatively, I could say, "on another hot summer's day where there was absolutely nothing newsworthy,
Curious Yellow - getting all Grammar Nazi on the asses of punk bitches since he learnt to spell.
Okay, here we see uncontested evidence that the /. effect overheats computers. Er, it overheats computers whose fans have been removed by their owners to cool their own paltry 98.6F down a degree or two, completely ignoring the smoking machine whose processor just jumped to that magical 170F.
I can't even RTFA on this one.
Whenever Mrs. Fitch breaks wind, we beat the dog.
for that poor little server...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
of this fine article..
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http://www.mirrordot.com/find-mirror.html?http://f orums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=77765
do {print "Mini-Geek Rules!\n";}
until ($TheEndOfTheWorld);
Or we just found where he took the fan from ...
The hack seems really simple:
"Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser."
I did, but I don't feel more refreshed really. What am I doing wrong?
Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
Take it at face value folks
So, retarded then?
...is a trademark of real genius.
This guy has made a trademark violation.
But if he connected the fan to a power inverter, would that make the article suck?
Would never have know that fan + power = working fan My day is complete
Tomorrow's news: A guy figures out how to use a wall-wart power supply, thereby avoiding spinning a hard drive and decreasing the heat in the room even more.
/.. You just took five minutes of my life. I want it back! I even had to go to Mirrordot to see this bit of moronic stupidity.
In next week's news: A guy puts a cup of ice in front of the fan for even more X-treme cooling. You have to use the "X-treme" because it points out how really radical this idea is.
Ok,
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
What would be better, would be to modify a mobile air conditioner so it actually worked!
..... and so, what with the pressure in a fluid acting equally in all directions, a continuous flow of air into the room. This is likely to be warmer than you want {if it wasn't a hot day, then you wouldn't have the AC on in the first place} and also, some of that air you just spent good money cooling is being heated up and blasted outside! Better would be to have a coaxial arrangement like a gas boiler flue, where the {hot} exhaust pipe is actually mounted inside the {cool} intake pipe. Then the arrangement would work more like a "fixed" air conditioner, since the condenser-cooling airstream would be entirely separate from the evaporator-heating {or, if you prefer, room-cooling} airstream.
.....}, one to each side of the device; separate them by means of the best thermal insulation you can get, and blow fans over each. Circulate air from the room over the cold side, and air from outdoors over the hot side. You will also need to shut off the current every so often, in order to allow the cold side to de-ice.
The problem with most mobile ACs is that there is only one vent pipe, which discharges the air that has been used to cool the condenser outside -- the condenser-cooling intake is in the room. So this means there is a continuous flow of air out of the room
You probably could do all this with Peltier Effect devices {dry heat pumps}. In which case, you would need to attach two lumps of metal with large surface areas {heat sinks from your nearest electronic components store fit this description nicely
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
In the hopes of salvaging this discussion (TFA is a non-story)
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Has anyone tried one of these? The priciples behind it make sense:
http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product
And since hearing about this development:
http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2005/
It makes even more sense, though a neck-worn device is more practical for mobile usage.
Granted, there are some stupid articles that make their way through the approval process, but this one takes the cake. Many people before this guy, including myself, have done something similar to get some air moving with parts laying around and not have to make a trip to WallyWorld (WalMart) to buy a fan. However up to this point, no one has had the audacity to post up something this stupid.
Damn it. I want my click back.
Oops does that mean when I pushed refresh 1000 times they'll get 1000 emails?
Heheheh.
*clickclickclickclick*
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