If you like brewing things you should try homemade kombucha. A few people here know my ultimate hipster desktop used to use kombucha brewing as part of its cooling system.
It wasn't that crazy. It was a core 2 duo celeron with all it's power in the graphics card. I fried the fan control module so it had no fan. I was testing if it really needed one and honestly it would take some very optimized code to overheat it. But for good measure I put a camping tin of water on top of the heating block. Keep in mind I don't run a case because I like my electronics naked. We called it the cup of death because it was perpetually balancing over a cpu and motherboard.
Then when I was brewing kombucha in the winter I realized this would get the temperatures to a more advised point to 1) Be faster and 2) Give preference to the yeast bacteria compound over mold 3) Develop the desired acidity faster to also exclude mold.
So it's more jank than hipster but I like the idea of a kombucha brewing computer being designed with more intent. If you want to keep a liquid at 80-90F the inside of a computer isn't bad.
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If you like brewing things you should try homemade kombucha. A few people here know my ultimate hipster desktop used to use kombucha brewing as part of its cooling system.
What the fuck! Do you have any photos or videos of that?
And yes kombucha is on my list.
It wasn't that crazy. It was a core 2 duo celeron with all it's power in the graphics card. I fried the fan control module so it had no fan. I was testing if it really needed one and honestly it would take some very optimized code to overheat it. But for good measure I put a camping tin of water on top of the heating block. Keep in mind I don't run a case because I like my electronics naked. We called it the cup of death because it was perpetually balancing over a cpu and motherboard.
Then when I was brewing kombucha in the winter I realized this would get the temperatures to a more advised point to 1) Be faster and 2) Give preference to the yeast bacteria compound over mold 3) Develop the desired acidity faster to also exclude mold.
So it's more jank than hipster but I like the idea of a kombucha brewing computer being designed with more intent. If you want to keep a liquid at 80-90F the inside of a computer isn't bad.