Reticulating Water Dog bowl

Just thought I'd share in case anyone else has a similar problem...

I have a very fussy puppy. She does not like still water in bowls and will refuse to drink from them to the point of dehydration.
She has now worked out that the good fresh water comes from tap's.

This provoked me to build my reticulating water bowl...



It took me 1/2 hour to build and has given my dog her own little water fountain..
It consists of:-

10L bottom tank (food/water container)
40cm x 5cm Garden pot saucer (plastic is suitable rating e.g not poisonous)
40cm clear vinyl tubing
12v water fountain submersible pump
1/2 threaded nipple (to connect bowl to tank)




Everytime she walk's near it, she run's over and almost sucks on the tube...
It run's 24/7 and has been working non stop for 3mth's now.
She think's it's fresh, new water every time it comes out the spout.




In the future I hope to make the unit ceramic and tile mozaic the inside of the bowl for effect..

Home Water Pressure turbine.

I am hoping to build a compact home unit, capable of generating a small amount of power.
This unit will have a belt drive to a 12v motor.



Although power generated would be minimal, I like the idea of generating power from your homes standard water pressure...
if we need to use it, we might as well generate a little bit of power too.



I'll keep you updated.





 

edit update: after re-assesing the design I have concluded that it would be most practical to take a standard 12v inline pump and run the mains pressure through the device. It is pre-built, designed for those purposes and potentials could not be produced through home manufacture of the device.

Next step is to install and collect some relavent data samples from its energy output.
I should dedicate more time to this project. I realise that the efficiency of this device is not optimum but just the the idea of a "mini hydro electric plant" gets my designing juices flowing.

PC Mod- Timber computer case..

These are some shots of my timber PC case. Took me a few days to make..
Was sick and tired of staring at the old plastic one...
Did the basic inside clean up / led fit out.


Case is made from 3/4 in pine solid board.. With Tasmanian oak trim...
It has a lovely aroma when warm. Several fans and port's have also been added to accomadate for the timber. I have active monitor's and warnings setup "incase" anything goes wrong....





In regards to the obvious comment's about combustibility of a timber case..
I would tend to agree with many other's, that the plastic's contained in standard case's, would be equally combustable. Although it would also emit toxic fume's..



I was going to do alot more "fancy" work to it, but preferred to go for the less is more look...

On the front are stainless steel fitting's. The only button is the on/off in the middle there... DVD drive is ejected via OS.. The on/off and headphones hanger are from a single magnetic stainless door catch...


My flat screen monitor may get the same treatment.

Sorry about the low qual pics...

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