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Cooking With Your USB Ports
tekgoblin writes "Wow, I would never have thought to try and cook food with the power that a standard USB port provides, but someone did. A standard port provides 5V of power, give or take a little. I am not even sure what it takes to heat a small hotplate, but I am sure it is more than 5V. It looks like the guy tied together around 30 USB cables powered by his PC to power this small hotplate. But believe it or not, it seems to have cooked the meat perfectly."
Watt is. The important is how much current he can get from supplied voltage. In any case why not just use the fucking stove.
This has been around forever.
Volts measure electromotive force, not power. Watts measure power. I would think nerds would know this.
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Where's my USB toaster?!?!
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This is the ALL TIME stupidest use for a computer i have ever seen and the most useless Slashdot article as well
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I heard USB power was actually OVER 9000!!!
God, root, what is difference ?
Actually USB ports can provide up to 500mA. So yeah assuming that was the case, 2.5W / usb port. So the guy built himself a 75W heating plate.
Power = Volts * Amps
I am surprised that this story would be posted by a Slashdot editor, because I am surprised that the Slashdot editor would not have some sense that there is more to be understood.
USB ports supply a maximum of 1/2 Amp, 500 milliamps. The current is limited by internal circuitry. If you short the port, the internal circuitry turns off the power.
Can 2.5 Watts make something hot? Yes, if there is good insulation and little thermal loss.
"your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
not only has the gizmodo article disappeared at time of post, but there is no link to the original blog post (http://xe.bz/aho/24/) which is date-stamped for 2006. This is 4 years old!
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They've finally found a practical use for USB! Was this USB 2.0, 3.0, or what? Has anyone investigated to see if Firewire will cook the meat faster?
Without actually digging them out, I'm fairly sure that even my ancient, non-software-controlled AT power supplies could put out a respectable amount of current on the +5V rail. Why bother hooking up half a dozen USB cards and dozens of cables when you could just pull it straight from one or two molex connectors?
For that matter, why not just use the hotplate unmodified?
one word to describe this story from me: why?
You can't handle the truth.
Was too busy texting his buddies when his highschool teacher was explaining Ohm's law, etc.
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Has anyone considered that like many utube videos, this is faked? He either has 150Vdc at 500ma max, or 5Vdx at 15 amps max. it seems unlikely that a hotplate would be designed to run from either 5V or 150V.
Besides, it would make more sense to jus use a standard 120Vac or 240Vac hotplate, as he would have to have standard mains power to run a desktop PC. C'mon don't be so gullable!
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Someone failed their basic physics class.
I know this is idle and one should not care what is posted here but isn't this particular example a couple years old, i do believe when it was new it was posted to real slash dot, then again i am just going from the picture, because the link is broken...
oh wait a bit of digging got me there and yes the page is date 2006,
also why is idle not on the new comment system, i hate having to reload just to view a single comment.
If you aren't doing this with the power over the phone lines, whats the point.
Volts are not a measurement of power, I am amazed at the number of people who don't understand this.
So we have an article on Slashdot about someone used 30 USB ports to cook some bacon?
Wow. Have we stooped to a new low?
What does this article tell me? I'll tell you what it tells me; USB is woefully underpowered. I won't stop campaigning until it takes only one USB port to do the same. If I want to have a bacon sandwich from my laptop without moving from the comfort of my easy chair, then it would take an electrocution from the flying spaghetti monster to stop me.
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USB Toaster . Apparently not.
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but I didn't expect a story from over 4 years ago. For those of you who can read japanese the original blog post is here.
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My graphics card is at 68C and goes up to 73-74C when it gets used by the games. It would be better to use the existing heat output from a computer to cook than to bother with USB. Maybe someone should build a custom case that looks like a hibachi grill on the top.
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Back in my day during college when we need to warm up the dorm room, we just threw another ray trace at the Pentium. We also had to walk uphill both ways to reach the keyboards though.
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"A standard port provides 5V of power, give or take a little. I am not even sure what it takes to heat a small hotplate, but I am sure it is more than 5V."
Reminds me of the quote "It's better to let someone think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it"
Pft. Firewire can cook an entire pig - INSTANTLY
...this is just a very specific use device that could be gained elsewhere as a by-product of its use.
Wouldn't it be so much easier to pay for a fermi card, some heat transfer to a metal plate above that you can cook some food on?
Last time i checked that thing hit high temps on _idle_.
Even still, just a general GPU with a lot of heat coming off it, would do good after a lengthy gaming session, after you are done, some fried egg and bacon, nice hearty meal cooked with computing manliness.
Same goes with CPU power recovery.
This also reminds me of the few discoveries made recently with relation to recovering waste heat at very efficient numbers and speeds.
Combining that with this could recover a good percentage of heat coming out the back directly rather than having to be connected directly.
Water cooling with a heatsink made out of this material would be so much better. (with a sensor to turn on fan if temps go too high, of course)
I've seen Nvidia cards run over 100C during load.
Put a couple of heatpipes on them instead, and you can cook bacon while your game.
When it comes to bacon, you always should. There shouldn't even be a second thought about it, it should come naturally to you, like a reflex.
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Cooking With Your USB Ports
They stir-fry and sauté nicely. Drizzle with rubbing alcohol, top with a dollop of thermal compound and serve.
Don't forget your Thanko 80 port USB hub.
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Back in my day we had to take the top off the computer and cook our food using the CPU
a pc does not have 30 ports. so unless he used a bunch of ac powered hubs theirs no way get got enough voltage from his pc ports alone. but at point its cooking with usb hubs. not to mention all the power wasted on the hubs and pc your electric stove probably uses less. its just imposable to pull that kind of wattage from your pc. the power supply would just choke and die. theirs plenty of cool ways to cook food like solar ovens.
ThinkGeek used to sell USB Hotplates. A Google search will reveal other models that actually serve as a hub as well.
your dorm was a mobius strip too?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.shtml
...it could be used for cooking hot grits.
It's definitely been done. It's hot but small, so it lends itself to frying an egg or something, but definitely doable. On the other hand, I saw a George Foreman turned into a webserver once.
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There is no why.
I'm absolutely certain that I could cook the same food in just as much or less time with only 1 V.
By the way, I'm getting ever closer to turning in my slashdot card. If the editors can't catch such a fundamental (and fundamentally simple) misuse of terms, E.G. if the editors don't understand these simple electrical principles that were discovered ALMOST TWO HUNDRED FREAKIN YEARS AGO, then I no longer want to be associated.
This is a TECH site. The editor of this submission should know the difference between voltage and power. No, I'm not new here. It used to be better.
How much geek cred do you get for having a machine and desk area covered with grease spatter? There's a reason we have a separate room for cooking where surfaces are easily cleaned with a damp sponge and mop... Why not, indeed.
Iirc, there is not enough air density that high up for a copter to work.
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