You forgot “beams” if you were going for a doctor evil.

Posted at 4:52 pm on Dec 14th, 2006 by Crash

is there anyone that would be willing to give me a hand with eagle? my email is elliott.linux[at]gmail[dot]com

Posted at 5:36 pm on Dec 14th, 2006 by Elliott

They don’t overvolt the processor. there is a heating element under the cpu.

Posted at 6:43 pm on Dec 14th, 2006 by Shark500

ohhh! Friggin’ Lasers!

Posted at 8:18 pm on Dec 14th, 2006 by Computer_kid

the processor one is lame, the only thing the processor accomplishes is just to make it look nice aesthetically. It would work better with out the processor in between the mug and the resistors.

Posted at 9:21 pm on Dec 14th, 2006 by Bryan

There was someone a while ago who straped 7 cpus of this era onto a big metal plate, and connected wires to them randomly. It managed to cook eggs, but I think a 360 would be more effective.

Posted at 10:20 pm on Dec 14th, 2006 by atrain

Yeah, when I first looked at the processor mug warmer I to thought that he was somehow running power through the P1 chip, instead he has a couple beefy resistors heating up under the P1 chip with some thermal paste transfering heat to the chip.

Still a fun idea though.

Posted at 10:21 pm on Dec 14th, 2006 by Paul

That video of the vending machine hack is annoying, you’d think he could figure out what to buy first instead of going ummmmmm and looking lost for most of the clip.

Posted at 10:36 pm on Dec 14th, 2006 by ironlizard

paul, the processor hot plate is a fake, if you look at the pics there is a lm7805 voltage regulator hooked up to the hot plate, the lm7805 can only handle 1 watt.

1w is nowhere enough to cook an egg, unless you were in the desert with a magnifying glass over you.

Posted at 1:28 am on Dec 15th, 2006 by monster

Too bad the $10 laser needs a $150 PSU to lase…

Posted at 8:09 am on Dec 15th, 2006 by tevetorbes

ive been doing the vending machine thing for months now….. yeah its theft but my motives are innocent enough :D im just doing it to explore. and its a cool party trick lol

Posted at 11:36 am on Dec 15th, 2006 by fishpoo

hmm i don’t see an lm7805, monster. link? how would that work, anyway? usb is already at 5v…

Posted at 4:22 pm on Dec 15th, 2006 by andrew

camera tracking software anyone?
http://www.roborealm.com
the git [joek1010] wouldent let me add this to his comments, probably because RR blows his program out of the water…

Posted at 4:57 pm on Dec 15th, 2006 by spiderwebby

my bad paul, i meant 1 amp. the lm7805 puts out 5w if its at 100% efficiency

Posted at 8:24 pm on Dec 15th, 2006 by monster

i think a 7805 needs 7v input to even work…
usb puts out 5v?

Posted at 8:57 pm on Dec 15th, 2006 by joelanders

mmmm hd projector… *drool*

Posted at 9:32 pm on Dec 15th, 2006 by sly

i was talking about the Cyrix hotplate, heres a link:

http://www.rabidhardware.net/index.php?id=44

5 watts spread out over that much surface area would do nothing, i doubt you would feel it if you held your hand to it.

the pentium cup warmer on the other hand, has a maximum of 2.5 watts, because usb only puts out 500ma, which is 0.5A @ 5v = 2.5W

i’ll admit, i did not realize the hotplate one on my own, but the usb one was all me.

Posted at 12:31 am on Dec 16th, 2006 by monster

Re: The coke machine hack. The vendors have always had the option to disable a refund on “empty”; this patch just makes it off-by-default.

This information comes from a coke employee.

All the vending machines in my area were updated as soon as this got on hackaday the first time, because an employee I know reads the site and went and fixed all his machines.

Posted at 5:11 pm on Dec 18th, 2006 by madd_matt

Just for the heck of it, I wired one 486 CPU directly to a 250 watt power supply using a supply voltage and ground pin. Gave off no heat. I think you would have to be doing some calculations or something to make it get hot. (You’d probably need to connect EVERY FREAKING power and ground pin too.)

Posted at 1:26 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by Dayne Batten

well, for some reason, mine (http://kevin-weibell.blogspot.com/2006/12/usb-processor-heater.html) works…

Posted at 3:56 pm on Dec 19th, 2006 by kevinin