Hot Plate
A CPU is a very beautiful piece of a computer that you won’t through away even if it was dead. Among many other things, simply, you can drill a hole in it and use it as your key chain.
This project will show you how to make a hot plate for your Mug from a dead CPU.
Tools and Materials
(Ofcourse you can use a working one but it won’t be feasible.)
2. A USB cable
3. A Fan grill with screws.
4. Any box (I used a wooden tie box cover)
5. A rotary Tool (the best tool ever invented)
6. Epoxy
7. A creative artistic mind.
The Idea
A CPU will still have some working electronic circuits even if it stopped functioning probably. And this project will use the heat generated by running some Volts in the CPU through a USB cable.
Be Very Careful.
Connecting a malfunctioning CPU to your computer may and will damage your computer’s ports or even worse. If you don’t have enough knowledge and experience in electronics... don’t do it.
The Steps
First, prepare the base.
Preparing the Hot Plate
Cut the USB wire and pass it through the hole you made previously in the base.
Strip the USB cable and locate the black and red weirs (black wire = ground, Red wire = +5V). You can cut out the white and green data weirs for more space.
Now connect the black wire to the ground pins and the red wire to voltage pins.
The best way to attach the weirs to the pins of the CPU is to cut the wires without striping them and then slide the pins inside.
Finally, you have to attach the CPU to the grill by Epoxy
Enjoy.