YaHookah! The computer you can smoke

Step 5

 I had planned to use some bubble stones in the resevoir of the hookah for a nice bubble effect.  I used a standard air pump from an old aquarium setup and tapped into the AC outlet inside of the power supply while I was painting it.  The same method is used in the computer aquarium that was entered in to the Dead Computer Contest here, this was my plan all along but he did an excellent job with the write up, and did a very nice job if you haven't checked it out already.  

This is hooked up to one of three switches I have mounted in the 3.5" floppy plate at the front of the computer. I also added a standard car cigarette outlet, they are easy to add to computer applications being that they run on 12v.  I used my meter to prove I had 12v coming from the yellow wire of your standard molex connectors, which is lugged onto the middle of the cigarette outlet, and the black from the molex connector mounted to the outer "ground ring" of the cigarette outlet.

Cutting out the floppy plate involved drilling some pilot holes in each corner of where the switches were, which gave me a starting point to cut with the Dremel, and the switches just snap in.  They are then wired and crimped on with fast-ons.
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