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During chaos communication camp (lots of hacker do camping) 2003 in Germany was one of the hottest days recorded since $longtime. Normal fridges where not allow
by seven 17y ago
During chaos communication camp (lots of hacker do camping) 2003 in Germany was one of the hottest days recorded since $longtime. Normal fridges where not allowed on the campside, because of the heavy power consumption. So I built a fridge out of a box, a towel, plastic bottle and a fan. Worked like a charm. Most other hacker who saw this were like: 'Damm, I told my friends this would work...' Execution is all! :)
On the same camp, I talked Emanuel Goldstein into signing and selling me the last VHS of Freedom Downtime that he had broad over from the US and was intended to be a present for the camp organizers. ...Or did he talk me into buying it...?
- kyro 17y agoWow, cool. How did you go about assembling it? brought
- seven 17y agoNothing big or special. I punched some holes into the bottle and made it drip onto the towel that was wrapped around the box that contained our snacks etc. Had a fan pointed to the towel. That is all. Evaporative (heat) loss is the keyword. What made me remember this, was the fact that I was in between about 2000 hackers who probably all thought about this.. but that I was (afaik) the only one who actually did it. In Nigeria they use more or less the same trick to build simple air-conditioning. Imagine it as a wood box open on two sides with a lot of small brittle branches inside. Water dropping into it. And a fan blowing on one open side. btw: although mixing up brought and broad is something that I could have found myself and is a result of being sloppy; I always appreciate input on my writing. As English is not my native language, I would guess that my grammar sucks more than my spelling. :)
- zeckalpha 17y agoSwamp cooler is the term.