Hahd-Coah Computin'

   I've thought computers were cool since watching it take my Father an entire gripe-filled weekend to get his first Texas Instruments home computer (we're talking magnetic audio cassette tape for a hard drive) operational. 

  Somewhere around 2005-ish, I bought a pretty beefy used PC tower from a local shop, and unbeknownst to me at the time of purchase, someone had put a clear plastic fan with a single green LED bulb, for no practical purpose, on the CPU cooler. Wild. I was kinda pissed at first and walked across the room to shut off the lights, to see if it was going to bother me. 

  When I turned around and saw the green light seeping from all the cracks in the case and pulsing choppily with the fan; my perspective changed. It was very, very cool, very Sci-Fi. I was strangely drawn to the mid-tower chassis and was perfectly content just basking in the fluttering machine glow.

  That, right there, was conceptually the birth of the idea that would eventually become FAS. My relationship with this tool had changed in a positive manner because of an aesthetic modification. From there interest drove utility cyclonic-ally upward into ever stranger and more intriguing ways to manage power delivery and thermal dissipation, in efforts to get the best Watt to Clock-Cycle ratio with the maximum amount of awesomeness!

OK, OK. I'm going to go under-volt something and calm down, while you peruse the under-water electro-gallery. I'll meet ya at the bottom to talk tech & turkey.

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  Enjoy,

  B