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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.
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
The secret ingredient on Iron Chef...Kobe Beef and 5 USB ports.
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^ this.
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.
What? 9000! That's Impossible!!!
"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!
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?
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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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.
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.
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.
That is what I feel every time someone talks about climbing Everest. Why not develop a high altitude Everest class helicopter. Then someone can even setup a penthouse on Everest and arrange tourists to visit ( like the Russians are doing with that "Most Expensive Motel" AKA International Space Station)
Unless you're using a powered no-name chinese hub (or many brand name ones that are just rebranded chinese hubs). In that case, the chance of the hub having current limiting capability is virtually 0. Results vary from the adapter handling it, through it crapping out, physically melting or catching on fire, to it shorting out to mains and taking your motherboard with it.
Be very afraid of powered chinese hubs. I've yet to find one that even has the required diode to avoid sending power back from the adapter into the host PC. Unpowered ones are mostly OK, as then any short will just propagate to the host and it will shut off the power.
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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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Pft. Firewire can cook an entire pig - INSTANTLY
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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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.
they did that with a 360 gpu once. cooked a egg on it. they did it to prove a point that the 360 ran to hot. and yes it was a 360 that aruldy red ringed.
Cooking bacon with USB is equally as hard/creative as a Roomba dog walker. In fact it's only a couple steps below perpetual motion or "I solved unified field theory" again. If you want something impressive it has to both require time and skill, while at the same time providing pretty pictures that let us drool about. The Moller flying car for example. Otherwise you might as well create USB powered desktop cold fusion with a boring glass of water that may release a buble every few minutes. -Sorry, NyQuil induced rant.
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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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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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