Creative use for empty whiskey bottles 253
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."
portable, and tastes nice too... (Score:5, Interesting)
I wonder if it's kept its nice wiskey smell...
Any more info on the motherboard? (Score:3, Interesting)
Where do you get that stuff? (Score:4, Interesting)
Nice work! (Score:2, Interesting)
Again, very nice work.
Re:Cooling (Score:4, Interesting)
Putting sufficient airpressure in the top usually pops the bottom off a glass bottle, look at the mould marks in any spirit or beer bottle to see the join. To apply such pressure, decend the palm of your hand onto a bottle mostly filled with water, should make a clean break.
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:2, Interesting)
Do it without cutting the bottle? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Nice work! (Score:2, Interesting)
Just thinking out loud... (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course, you could also probably break an empty bottle, drop in one of those wireless network cameras, and glue it back together, but that wouldn't be half as cool.
Re:What's with the hole? (Score:3, Interesting)
If anyone cares... (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
I think SBC within intact bottle can be done (Score:2, Interesting)
No air flow inside a bottle though, so you need to choose fairly cool CPU for this.
To bad i don't have any friends with glass blower skills and facility to try it
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Electromagnetic tolerance (Score:2, Interesting)
Finally, they did away with government-regulated type acceptance all together and switched to the honor system. Now, it's a free for all with a catch. PCs still have to be tested to comply with FCC standards, but there is no direct oversight. However, if you build and sell a PC and it ends up interfering, and you cannot demonstrate that you had that configuration tested, you are quite literally up the creek as the FCC will descend upon you like locusts and take every penny you have and will ever make.
In any case, this thing is probably an RF nightmare. Glass is nearly transparent to RF, so the bottle will let anything in or out. There is a switching power supply used in this thing, several actually, and they tend to be the "gatling gun" of radiated interference.