fredart : blogbits

Temperature control is not only important for things like computers and other sensitive equipment, it’s also pretty important for the organic components of the working environment (namely me).  Now that i am drawing pretty much exclusively on the Cintiq, there is only one little issue i have with it and that is the fact that the area where my hand usually rests has a tendency to get pretty warm.  Hot, even.

This issue is pretty easily solved by directing air flow from a desktop fan over the surface of the cintiq (you can see the fan i’m using to do this in this photo of my work area.)  It’s not something that needs to be on all the time, in fact i hate to have air blowing on me all the time.  It works fine, cools things down, and then i turn it off.

The problem is that this little Honeywell desk fan, as good as it is, is a little TOO good.  Even at it’s lowest setting, the air flow is too high to be blowing on my hand like that.  So as dumb as it sounds, i’m looking for a solution.  Pretty easy, right?  There are lots of fans out there to choose from.

Well, not really.  What i want is a small fan that makes very little noise, is of high enough quality that it won’t burn out after a month of use, and has variable fan speeds (not the 2 or 3 settings that most fans have).  Someone has to make a fan like that, right?

Not that i’ve seen so far. -_-

The closest i’ve come to seeing something that will probably do the job is one of these two Vornado fans, the “Zippi” desk fan or the “Flippi” desk fan (could they have stupider sounding names?).  One of these will probably do the trick, but it’s STILL not quite what i was looking for…

The thought struck me that what would be REALLY cool would be a custom fan of some sort that was made using CPU or Computer Case cooling fans and some sort of control with a potentiometer to adjust the fan speed to whatever felt most comfortable… it might be something i could even cobble together myself.

Any thoughts?

(and this kind of thing is exactly what the fredart blog is perfect for, little stuff like this :P)