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Behold The Most Insane Crowdfunding Campaign Ever
- colinbartlett 12y agoNot sure I understand how this is more insane than scores of other crowd funded hardware solutions.
- thecopy 12y agoLike solar power roads for example.. (youtube thunderf00t's videos about solar roads for fun videos where he debunks the entire project)
- mijoharas 12y agoIf the author reads this: 's/decent/descent'
- lnanek2 12y agoConsidering all the media coverage listed at the end, I'd say the copper foam was an effective marketing gimmick, enough to have actually funded the project were they not frozen. After that they could have run with the money or tried to implement it. If they had tried to implement it they would have eventually fallen back to reference boards or commodity parts in a slightly larger size, and probably just had the hardware clock down when overheated due to the badly designed heat sink, so I think they could have delivered. There are successful companies out there that rely on marketing gimmicks, like Bose.
- jwmerrill 12y agoI'm not convinced that copper foam is a good idea for a heat sink, but this article doesn't give enough detail to convince me that it's a bad idea either. The radiative emissivity might be a bit of a red herring, since heat sinks typically rely more on conduction and convection than on radiation for cooling. So then it comes down to some hand waving about boundary layers.
- wanderingjew 12y agoMost heat sinks rely on conduction and convection because they use fans. A passively cooled setup is dominated by radiation.