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Cooking With Your USB Ports

Posted by samzenpus on from the sorry-your-dinner-crashed dept.

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."

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  1. WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is the ALL TIME stupidest use for a computer i have ever seen and the most useless Slashdot article as well

    1. Re:WTF? by SpeZek · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You must be new here.

  2. Re:Volt is not a measurement of power by mayberry42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...In any case why not just use the fucking stove.

    Because some people enjoy the challenge of creating something fun, new, original and, yes, pointless.

  3. Re:Overly elaborate setup by ari_j · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Many people desperately want to do the "hard hacks" that would earn them geek cred. They want to be the guy who builds a 5,000rpm pneumatic Lego engine or who converts a Roomba into an automatic dog-walker. The problem is that most of them are stupid and uncreative, so you end up with "hacks" like cooking bacon with power from USB ports.