[mythtv-users] Quiet fans
Peter Loron
peterl at standingwave.org
Fri Oct 17 05:36:08 UTC 2008
On Oct 15, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> On Wed, October 15, 2008 4:52 pm, Darrin wrote:
>
>> Nice. If it were me, I'd complicate it a bit more and use an atmel
>> avr
>> tiny
>> to do the same thing. Then, you have the ability to reprogram it
>> to your
>> whims and no potentiometers are needed. You could even change the
>> ramp
>> rate
>> on the pwm to be completely non-linear for your specific needs. The
>> ATtiny24
>> could do the job, has an onboard temp sensor, built in PWM, and
>> only costs
>> $1.91 from digi-key.
>
> Any chance of doing a project page on this? That could be cool.
>
> Even cooler (no pun intended) would be something with a termistor on a
> lead that could be stuffed into a hard drive caddy space. :-)
>
> --Yan
>
Should be quite easy to put together...I've got some Arduino boards
kicking around. I'd need to get a leaded temp sensor. Hmmm. I wonder
how expensive it would be to get something together to read K-type
thermocouples.
-Pete
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