The Aquarium Computer

Aquarium Computer.

My trusty laptop is showing its age. 8 GB of RAM is not enough for the amount of 3D stuff I do now, and it can’t run the latest games at all any more. Since I got a full time job now (instead of a constantly travelling student), it’s time to get a desktop PC (first PC build, yay). But the process of building a PC is pretty boring, it’s just an exercise of picking out compatible parts for the right price. I decided to make it slightly more interesting by submerging the entire computer in a fish tank full of mineral oil.

Using Neopixel strips, a couple of TMP36 sensors for temperature monitoring, Teensy++2.0 running the cooling system and the pixels!


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1 Comment

  1. Really cool! Literally!

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