Aquarium Modcase 200
zeptic writes "How about an aquarium in your running computer? This casemod shows you how it's done. The cool pictures can be found on the same site page, and there is an English summary on the last page."
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Great... (Score:1, Interesting)
Aquarium Monitor (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.techfreakz.org/fishmon/ [techfreakz.org]
I can't see their website now because it's
Running? (Score:5, Interesting)
I suppose this could be better explained if I could read German.
What I would Actually like to see. (Score:5, Interesting)
Here's an idea for a casemod that would actually impress me:
Get some expensive pure water, some with NO corrosive dissolved oxygen, and completely electrically neutral, meaning no OH- and H+ ions. I realize that water is self-ionizing, so the removal of these ions might need to be continuous.
Unpack, assemble, and run your awesome computer in a container full of this stuff.
I don't care how expensive or chemically unfeasible that would be, but that would actually be impressive. I've heard of computers running submerged in vegetable oil before, since vegetable oil is made of large covalent molecules, but I don't care. I want an underwater computer.
Re:Yummy Goldfish for dinner. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What I would Actually like to see. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:how about an Electric Eel? (Score:3, Interesting)
P.S. Just in (um) case anyone thinks of doing this, electric eels are large (1 to over 2 meters!), difficult to handle, voracious, and sensitive to bright light. Feed them live food at night, and provide places to hide.
Re:Macquariums with real fish! (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Is that liquid cooling ? (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm way ahead of you there, been working on one for quite some time (with not too much success).
There are several issues with hamster cases. Firstly, hamsters/gerbils/mice/most rodents CHEW on everything, so I had to find a way to protect the pieces of the comp from the hamster (and vice/versa). Secondly, hamsters will even CHEW through most protection (including plastic), so I had to come up with yet another solution. Thirdly, hamsters need bedding, and they "go potty" in that bedding. Even in a well vented case, that leaves a lot of moisture in the air and degrades the integrity of the computer parts. However one cool idea i've had and got pseudo-working for the hamster cage is actually monitoring the speed that the hamster wheel is moving.
Fortunately I've been testing out the designs with old parts so it hasn't been that much of an expensive deal so far, however I'm approaching a long-term working solution, and will post pics/schematics when I'm done.
As a sidenote, I'm working on a REAL fishtank mod also. Someone had posted another design for a fishtank case where the tank is seperate from the comp, I'm working on a little more "integration" if you will. I'm also working on a lizard mod too, using the vent heat from the fans as a "heat rock" for the little guys. The lizard mod may be the first finished as lizards don't chew, thrive in the heat, can deal with certain cold cathode tubes for light, and don't require too much attention otherwise.
Re:A P4 could... (Score:3, Interesting)