Very clever

Posted at 5:42 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by Tom Parker

Ohhhhh it loaded and i accidently closed the window and now its down >_

Posted at 5:44 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by Tom Parker

Seems really cool, too bad the site seems to be down. BTW I got a floating ad from questionmaker about some survey. I seem to remember hearing we should report these things if we saw them. Just putting it out there.

Posted at 5:59 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by mark

Yay @ Norwegians! :D

Seriously, this is neat. And I havent even seen the details on it yet!

Posted at 6:00 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by Twiner!

Seems that my university’s server is down:( hope it’ll go back online soon…

Posted at 6:34 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by bard

Site doesn’t work! :(

Looks good, though.

Posted at 6:37 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by Erik

JSP server is down I think.. optional link (will be removed when jsp server is up and running again):

http://folk.ntnu.no/bardlund/hack2.html

Lets hope it stays up or they will revoke my privileges for the rest of my life ;)

Posted at 7:06 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by bard

This is cool. My laptop gets really hot and sounds like a vacuum cleaner when it’s playing movies. The heat gets so bad that the OS had to auto shutdown the system halfway through a movie. So I’d put an ice pack, fresh from the freezer, under my laptop to cool it off…

Posted at 7:40 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by gh

I had the exact same idea a while ago. When on AC my fan turns on at very low temperatures (44 ish), so it is basically constantly on.

There is no way I would attempt it though, nice work.

Posted at 9:12 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by japroach

i can’t access the site, but damn, this sounds identical to an idea I had after I looked at the cooling fins that are visible through my laptop case..although I was thinking of using some powereful peltier with watercooling. i don’t have any experience with cooling though.
i’m not trying to steal credit or anything though..a good hack is always respected :)

Posted at 9:29 pm on Oct 13th, 2006 by dax

This is great! There are many ideas floating around out there, but few who actually realize them. I like how such a potentially complicated a concept was refined and created with so few parts.
Q: anyone know sources for small/micro/tiny/itsy-bitsy dc pumps? I want to try a version of this.

Posted at 2:51 am on Oct 14th, 2006 by C141Clay

iv seen this before, and the link is dead, for me anyway

Posted at 3:21 am on Oct 14th, 2006 by cameron20020

yep, the floating add came up for me too, the banners up at the time were of mictrosoft ad center, save-vegas, and the indecent “true” ones

Posted at 10:20 am on Oct 14th, 2006 by wolf

OK, instead of “Hey, i saw a banner about:” can we get the links they go to? The servers they load from? This is hackaday, we should be able to figure out how…

Posted at 11:24 am on Oct 14th, 2006 by Keleus

“Q: anyone know sources for small/micro/tiny/itsy-bitsy dc pumps? I want to try a version of this.”

I’ve seen some pretty small windshield washer fluid pumps. Not micro or tiny – but they can be bought second hand for cheap. And if you run them at less than 12v, I wouldn’t worry about them overheating ;)

Posted at 1:16 pm on Oct 14th, 2006 by trebuchet03

sorry if i have missd the point but thought the hole idea of laptops was to be portable that dont look very portable to me

Posted at 2:20 pm on Oct 14th, 2006 by mr resistor

Floating ads still going BTW.

I’m suprised no one has bothered to manufacture a small, flat rotary displacement or rotary vane pump for laptop liquid cooling yet. Centrifugal impeller pumps are just too voluminous to maintain portability. I’m willing to bet that if it wasn’t for the outsized dimensioning of both the cooling pump and the heatsink this system could have remained in “the spirit” of a laptop.

Posted at 6:48 pm on Oct 14th, 2006 by PUNiSH3R

Seems a little overboard for simply not wanting to hear a fan while watching a movie. Perhaps headphones could accomplish the same thing? I think the idea is cool, but it does defeat the purpose of a portable/laptop.

Posted at 7:22 pm on Oct 14th, 2006 by Cory

anybody thought of a sterling engine powered pc pump, i doubt u could get it for a laptop, but desktop would suffice. The hotter it got, the faster it would pump. Any questions or if anybody wants to do it, email me Dok@DokumentAMarble

.dok

Posted at 1:52 am on Oct 15th, 2006 by Dok

Uh folks.

Wouldn’t simply increasing the amount of surface area be enough to increase cooling significantly?

Adding an external heat sink should be enough to tip the scales towards a cool enough (and that’s really the point here, cool _enough_) running CPU to keep the fan off.

This water cooling thing, while incredibly cool looking and really clever, is most likely major overkill unless you can overclock that sucker, but then again that just makes more heat, don’t it? :D

Posted at 6:30 am on Oct 15th, 2006 by strider_mt2k

Yes it is enough when used in “air mode” (as mentioned in the article). Adding water to the equation makes for an even cooler experience. Right now I’m running at a comfy 41*Celsius (106*F) in “water mode”. Things go a thad quicker when cool ;)

btw; I’m posting the alternative link here again;
http://folk.ntnu.no/bardlund/hack2.html
My original site is running a jsp server that ain’t that friendly and tends to kneel sometimes;(

Posted at 7:47 am on Oct 15th, 2006 by bard

much better link thank you

I love the pics. that really is lovely.

Posted at 1:12 pm on Oct 15th, 2006 by strider_mt2k

Hah, that completely owns the watercooled doghouse I was (seriosuly) planning to make….

Posted at 7:29 pm on Oct 15th, 2006 by fragged

oh, man…. i had the same idea, but did not have the means nor the will to acutally pull it off.

well done

Posted at 8:10 pm on Oct 17th, 2006 by [j°Sh]

Now that i like, its an original hack, but something id never dare to attempt
i wonder if it helps with the crotch burning tendancy of most laptops

Posted at 10:36 am on Oct 18th, 2006 by eyuras

hey. good stuff. i was just wondering, when you shove the ‘fins’ in. wouldn’t it interfere with the spinning of the fan blades if they do kick in?

Posted at 3:28 pm on Oct 18th, 2006 by Hoi

haha “crotch burning tendancy”. Yeah it does help. @23; No the fins don’t touch the fan blades.
BTW; update’s up

Posted at 5:47 pm on Oct 18th, 2006 by bard

more info…
For small pumps, check out your local thrift stores. I found a number of small “desk fountains”. they are great for parts, the one I picked up had a small & quiet (1″ x 1.5″) 3v DC pump. Neato. I’m actually considering plumbing in cooling lines directly into my old laptop (or desktop?), and then putting a quick-disconnect of some sort connect to the fountain as is. I figure the water being aerated and flowing over the rocks will dissapate enough heat. And the fountain will help the fung shwe of my office.
aahhh…

Posted at 1:27 am on Oct 21st, 2006 by Clay H

if your screen is broken, why not just use that laptop as a stationary desktop and hook it up with a vga moniter, usb mouse and keyboard? thats what i did with my crappy lappy

Posted at 6:25 pm on Oct 24th, 2006 by word of advice

haha can I quote you on that?

Posted at 9:00 am on Nov 11th, 2006 by bard

man, how did you do that? That looks awesome!

Posted at 2:08 pm on Apr 10th, 2009 by Jun

Does anyone still have the archive of this site? its now 404

Posted at 8:57 am on Oct 28th, 2009 by kocoman