[Jared Bouck] has posted the latest project at Inventgeek: Thermaltake minifridge. Jared isn’t a big fan of the cost/reliability trade-off that comes with most overclocking projects so he decided to take on an entirely different cooling project. He found this Thermaltake case that resembled a refrigerator and took it the rest of the way. The cooling components came out of two 65W peltier camping coolers. After gutting the case, he mounted the power supply so that the intake and exhaust are external to the case. The peltier coolers were wired directly to the PS and the entire case was lined with foam. The last step was to add plexiglass ramps for the cans.
Now he should make this into a working PC. That’s what i would do. Sodas and a pc. w00t
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Neat idea! I wonder if the build time is understated though… Half an hour seems a bit quick to put something like this together.
Say goodbye to the beer fridge :)
It would be better if you could fill it up through the 5 1/4 slots.
Turning that into a functional pc would be a great hack for gamerz everywhere who will not only have the ammo in the game but the ammo to stay awake right inside the very machine they are using to pwn the enemy
wow, tekrat must have just discovered slang
rancid milk:
“It would be better if you could fill it up through the 5 1/4 slots.”
I rekkon it would be good if you had redbull coming our of one slot, sprite 3g out another, you know 250ml cans, some variety.
That’s one of the coolest mods I’ve ever seen!
haha, get it? :P
Now this is this the shit I have been waiting for.
But I wish it was a working Pc. Anyway sweet!
I think i will take on the challenge of putting it into my computer wish me luck!
a reminder, Peltier junctions are quite inefficient — they’ll produce a lot more heat than cooling.
http://www.dewmod.com/
complete pwnage
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hehe… anything that cools something else will produce more heat than when you started (otherwise you have discovered free energy o.0 ) Entropy is going to be the end of us errr… everything :P
“Hey guys, the magic fridge is back!”
Pretty interesting project. I also wish it was a usable computer, even if something like a Mac Mini or VIA board. Points off for being the same guy who told me I won his contest, then disqualifying me for age.
I like the USB despense idea, although a parallel port interface would be easier & cheaper :D
get off the guys cool aid
the hot air could be blown out of the computer.
You know i like these types of articles i was sitting here at the computer last night thinking man i wish i could run my computer super cool. i am in the process of running one computer and fixing to run three and they tend ot put off heat. so i came up with an idea that i am implimenting and after seeing the fridge here i have to do it now. I have free elcectricity and gas at my place so i found a free chest freezer in the local trading newspaper [i just have to pick it up] so three computers in a chest freezer [small one] with cd bays in the front. now i just have to buy a digital camera.
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Next step is to, as said, put a working mobo in there. Shuld work with a via mini ITX card.
And, set it up with mySQL, and let it dispense automatically over network! Also, it could give you some outputs, like how many cold ones it is in there, teperature, uptime, etc.
I wish i had money for projects like theese.
Now if he can get Cheerios to come out of the cereal port every time he starts his day!
Darn! I was going to make one of those…
Isn’t there another one somewhere on hackaday that had the logo ‘beer inside’?
Speaking of 5.25″ drive bays, why not mount a CD-ROM for use as a built in cup-holder?
should made it hold multiple kinds of drinks
then put like the hard liquir pc on top of it
and also made it a liquid cooling system for your pc
Dayyyymn I wish I was a genious like that. I would make it so it could disperse the drink like a fountain into a cup though. BTW I know MD is the preferred drink of all late night gamers, but do they realize what it does to their sperm? I just hope their baby’s don’t end up looking like this…. http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=69722