Yet Another USB Fan

Their are plenty of USB fans on here but not quite like this one.
This fan can be made (with the addition of E-Tape) compleatly out of the insides of an old computer. So don't just throw those headakes away smack em with a hammer or something, and see what you can scanvenge from the inside, ok so mabet don't hit it untill you get the stuff out that you want. That includes stuff like cd drives, hard drives, cards, processors, cables and power supplys, if you can use it take it. Also an X-acto nife, sisors, and small plyers are a help. (would have used shrink tube but I was out at the time)

AND IF YOU DON'T ALLREDDY KNOW USB PORTS SUPPLY 5 VOLTS WHILE THE FAN(S) ARE USUALY 12. SO IT WILL BE UNDER POWERED. AND NO COMPLAINING/ARGUING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE IMFORMATION HAS ALLREDDY BIN POSTED!

Step 1 Materials

Well not much to explain here.

SO the stuff that you will need is as follws:
1X Fan
1X Usb Port
1X Sound Cable
1X Role E-Tape
1X X-ACTO Knife
1X Sisors
1X Plyers/Wire Cutters

Comments

[tubajoey1]

I saw a similar Instructable dealing with a usb light about six months ago, and did exactly what you did here as an experiment. It has worked fine since then, and while under powered, still cools down my power hog of a viao. One thing to note though is the possibility of frying your motherboard by doing this. I know a little about electricity, but not enough to explain why it would do it, but I hear its something to do with the fan wanting to draw that 12 volts that the usb port doesnt have. Nice work though. Keep trying new things.

[kraM]

yea its kinda like trying to draw toomany amps threw a single channel on your sterio, sparcks start flying everywhere n' stuff. but thanks for the + feedback

[m3alves]

where is the sound cable in a computer?

[kraM]

it is generaly connected between the cd drive and the sound card