Creative use for empty whiskey bottles

Japala writes "You might have seen computers built inside of toasters, radios, garden lamps etc. As motherboards keep getting smaller and smaller the possibilites on where you can embed then increases. As it turns out, you can get them to fit inside an empty glass bottle. Whisky PC for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server."

Good TImes

So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?

Re:Good TImes

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Re:Good TImes

Can't forget that he had to do most of the work at night while his newborn son was sleeping. Perhaps if he hadn't drank enough of those bottles to come up with the idea of putting a computer in one, he might not have the son and could have built the computer during the day. :)

Re:Good TImes

A tower case filled with 24 year old single Isla Malt sounds like a nice companion project

Re:Good TImes

if I would have made home server for every bottle of wiskey i drank... i would be running pretty powerfull boewulf cluster by now :)

Re:Good TImes

So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?

My last computer build started at 3am after coming back from the bars completely hammered. I was completely wasted. In the morning, everything still worked except one case fan was backwards.

Re:Good TImes

So, you work for Gateway, eh?

Cheat!

I thought they were going to try and rollup the motherboard and unfurl the memorysticks and processor once inside.

Instead they just cut a hole in it.

portable, and tastes nice too...

well, it is certainly more portable and better looking than your average tower. I think that there could well be a market for these things, in all different types of bottles or shaped glass cases... If you wanted to go all out you could put a plasma screan on the side... set it to show the original label as a screan saver if you want to go all out...

I wonder if it's kept its nice wiskey smell...

for what?

for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server.

Because, as we all know, a noisy server can exacerbate a throbbing hangover ...

There's always a good use for empty bottles

Put a fish in it :O)

I've got an empty 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels that one of my alky loving friends gave to me. I've been meaning to put a fish in there for a while now.

Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles

A fish in a bottle would likely suffocate in a short time. Bottles taper towards the top, and so there is almost certainly not enough surface area to get enough oxygen into the water from the air.

Where do you get that stuff?

Is there any site that lists all the motherboards and components you can use to build these tiny machines? I've seen mini-itx.com, but it's very hard to navigate to specific boards, cases, psu's etc. It's mostly a news site, and it seems like if you don't keep up with it every day you'll have no idea what's up. So, where do you go to find these little things? I'd love to build a PC based alarm clock.

What's with the hole?

They cheated! They cut a hole in the side of the bottle.

They should have done it ship-in-a-bottle style.

Wow!

A chip in a bottle!

A whisky server...

Would that make it a bar tender?

PC in a bottle

aah, now i know why windows is acting drunk..

Right...

"I tried to cut and drill couple of similar bottles at home but I realized that my tools are not good enough for it, then finaly a professional glass grinder man prepared the whisky bottle for me."

Right. Your inability to cut holes in the bottle couldn't possibly have had anything to do with your method of emptying the bottle, could it?

Next Project...

...PDA in a hip flask.

Re:Nice

For a small fee, I will drink the whiskey for you... giving you a perfectly usable emptpy bottle! You may then mod to your hearts content!

Re:Any more info on the motherboard?

SBC stands for: Single Board Computer

3.5" and 5.25" seem to be standard sizes.
Of course, 3.5" doesn't really mean 3.5"

The specs I looked at (first google result [tri-m.com])say that the
3.5" SBCs are actually 5.75" Length x 4" Width (146mm x 101.6mm)

Try one of these

http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.83/it.A /id.369/.f [mini-box.com]

I bet it would fit just fine.

But a breakable glass case? While it looks cool, no thanks...

Re:Try one of these

If you're that worried about dropping your computer hard enough to break the glass, then perhaps you should lay off the wiskey. :)

If anyone cares...

In places where a formal title is needed, it's usually "Master Glassblower", although there may be the occasional Journeyman working along side where there's enough demand for more than one. If you poke around larger research institutions, there's usually one hiding out somewhere, who handles all of the custom glass blowing, cutting, polishing, optical gluing (EG, for custom laser prisms), and shaping needs. In larger cities, check under "glassblowers" in the Yellow Pages.

In practice, "great wizard" is far more commonly used than any formal title, because if you can't buy the right shape piece of glass off-the-shelf, then you need to find someone to grovel before. I know of at least one research project that was derailed for almost three years when the previous master retired "unexpectedly" at the ripe age of 80, and his 35-year old Journeyman assistant who got promoted didn't have half a century of expertise under his belt. Requests that the old guy used to craft flawlessly in one day, the new guy sometimes needed four to get what they wanted exactly right... or worse, almost but not quite exactly right.

Which just goes to show, loss of critical personnel isn't only a problem in IT.

Re:I have a better use for empty whiskey bottles

An empty whiskey bottle is good for hittin' arseholes over the head when they call us Irishmen a bunch of violent drunks!