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Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

ChiefoftheChiss — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:48:10 EST

more on jkadin's remarks can be found here (from a 4 day old hack a day post- see comments 5,7)
http://www.hackaday.com/2006/12/14/pentium-powered-extra-w...

-B

ChiefoftheChiss

Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

Brad — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:30:39 EST

Firewire burn......

Brad

Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

TuxRug — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:10:32 EST

Imagine what you could do with firewire instead of USB...

TuxRug

Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

TuxRug — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:07:02 EST

Why not spray some plastic dip over the mobo and set your drink right on top of the heatsink?

TuxRug

Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

jkadin — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:51:02 EST

Unfortunatly, he didn't do anything as cool as actually hooking up the processor. He's just shorting out his USB port's power by hooking up a resistor or two to the 5v and ground wires. He just taped the resistors to the bottom of the processor. You could put anything there and it would heat up, you don't need a processor, 'cause it's not actually processing.

jkadin

Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

strider_mt2k — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:34:21 EST

Hack a Day got "burned" by this too.
The chip doesn't do the heating, the resistors under it do.

Still neat when you remember the fuss over Pentium-related fires back in the day.

strider_mt2k

Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

bradite — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:22:42 EST

Meh. My old Athlon Palamino chip runs hotter.

Suck it Intel fanboys!
[/sarcasm]

bradite

Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

SrsRevo17 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:04:32 EST

Gives new meaning to "Liquid Cooling" eh?

SrsRevo17

Pentium-Powered Coffee Warmer Warms Our Coffee and Soul

tim.etherington — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:31:41 EST

Sweet! I have an old Pentium chip at home in my in box doin' no one no good. If I could make it keep my coffee warm, so much the better!

tim.etherington