When the attic apartment turns into a sauna, the asphalt outside glows, and even the PC fan is just blowing warm air through the room, creative solutions are needed. A hardware tinkerer has therefore built a helmet that is supposed to cool the head with a fan.
Fans for the head? Anyone who has ever sat in an overheated attic apartment in the summer knows the problem: The fan is running, the PC is blowing warm air from the case, the windows bring in even more heat, and outside the asphalt shimmers.
The hardware creator Making stuff with Mike apparently got tired of just sweating. So he quickly built a kind of portable air conditioning for the head.
The result is a rather quirky hat – or rather helmet – that looks half like an art project, half like an improvised school project. On a protective helmet sits a 3D-printed structure, in which a Noctua fan is installed. It is supposed to direct air downwards, thus providing cooling for the head.
Five Parts, That’s All You Need
What are the 5 components of the cooling hat? The setup seems absurd at first glance but is surprisingly simple. At its core, the hat consists of only 5 key components:
- a protective helmet
- a 3D-printed chimney structure
- a 120mm Noctua fan
- a USB to fan header adapter
- a 5,000 mAh power bank
Of course, there are also small items like cables, mounting materials, and a hole in the helmet so that the air can get to where it needs to go: on the head.
How does the portable air conditioner work? It won’t be as cool as a real air conditioner since the air is not actively cooled. In fact, the hat is more like a mobile fan that sits directly on the head.
The fan is powered by the power bank and pushes the air down through the 3D-printed structure. According to Making stuff with Mike, the battery should last around 6 hours.
Theoretically, that’s enough for a long afternoon in the heat. Whether you would actually walk around the city center voluntarily with it is another question.
What do you think, would you want such a helmet on a hot day? And what are your strategies against the ongoing heatwaves? Let us know in the comments!
If you’re now considering stealing a fan from your gaming PC and putting it on your head, you might want to take a look inside your case first. Because sometimes the heat problem is not with the heatwave outside but with the dust inside: In another case, a player was wondering why his PC was constantly overheating – until he opened it
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