Comments on: hackaday links

By: rav

rav — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 20:37:28 +0000

can u crack http://www.cqu.edu.au if yes i will pay u 2000$

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:47:40 +0000

Yes, I’ve seen commercial kits that allow that addition of a cig lighter so it is doable.

Advisable however????

I agree, it’s beating the crap out of the power supply to heat a coil.
However, if you need a cig lighter THAT close, you’re probably not worried about the buildup of tar and crap all over your -everything anyway.
Take a look at the internals of a tobacco smoker’s PC.

Oh I’m not worried about the person’s insides, they make that call for themselves, but that poor PC!!!

By: H8tred

H8tred — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:54:35 +0000

I have a cigarette lighter that I connected to an empty molex. My phone charger stay plugged into it, there are no heat issues, even when using the lighter. My PSU is 150 watts, and everything seems to be doing fine, as it has been running close to a year with it. I noticed the start and select buttons are missing from that controller, I think it’s a hub and not an actual functional controller.

By: GSX

GSX — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:49:12 +0000

not that im complaining, its nice to see it on the front page but the link to the bar stool racer was posted here: http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000740045347/#comments (comment 5) last week….

bah, my 15 minutes of fame still elude me……..

By: hex4def6

hex4def6 — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 09:26:32 +0000

The cigarette lighter is a bit dumb. I can deal with pointless, pointless is cool.

Stupid however… eh. :)

Lets see… Off the top of my head, I’d say a cigarette lighter (I assume being a nichrome wire type deal?) draws around 8-12 amps. @12v thats in the 96->144 watt range…

Most 300watt -> 350watt (at least the two I have :P Anecdotal evidence will suffice in this case) PSU’s allow a max of 10 amps on the 12v line. I can easily see him overloading his PSU, not to mention the additional heat, most of which probably goes into the case….

By: hcsteve

hcsteve — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:51:13 +0000

it’s ichat _with_ your television, not _on_ your television. pretty cool.

By: CaptSnuffy

CaptSnuffy — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 03:27:32 +0000

i know about the NES usb controllers and kit from here: http://www.sealiecomputing.com/retrozone/

but what is in that linked pic? it just looks like someone built a USB hub into a NES controller.