For quite some time now i have been interested in modding and stuff, but ive never really got round to making anything! but ive had a couple ideas and wonder if yas thought any would be worth building!!! A billows Powered cooling system - Using a motor, and some cogs and cams i designed this soi the 2 sectioned billows suck air out of a certain park of your computer, and at the same time pump cold air back into it, this is a good idea because it takes vast amounts of air at one time, thus reducing overall system temp by at least a few degrees! A Mechanical Uptime Counter - while not my idea, i was watching discovery channel and saw how ancient people counted time, and that was by little ball bearings which nobbled a little thing which pushed a handle, thus showing time! This wouldnt be useful, but itd be damned cooler than a digital uptime counter and thats all i got, but i was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on them
I had an idea a while ago, while I was taking apart my alarm clock. The clock runs off of 120v AC or 4v DC, so if you hook it up to a 5v line in your comp with the appropriate resistor, you have a clock in your comp. Some easy bay mounting for the segment led display and you're set. But now your saying...but madyeti, when you turn off your comp, the clock turns off too! Exactly! when you turn on your computer, the clock resets itself to 12:00, and one hour later, it shows 1:00 (or 1 hour uptime). So now you have an uptime counter. (The only part I haven't thought about is when it goes over 12 hours uptime, and it resets to 1:00 again.) Food for thought though! ~Davy
if indeed it is a mechanical clock, simply make a little nib on the back on the hour bit, so that when it goes past 12 it pushes a little thing wqhich moves another little spindle a little, thus thats counted 1, and your other bit can go on to count more
Good Idea for the mechanical clock, but the idea was for a digital clock to use the segment led display... LOL!!!
What about like the counter in a cars odometer? I know I've seen timers that look just like them. I think they run off 12v. They usually only count in hours, but that's all you'd need.
