Oddball USB Hack Of The Day

Any geek knows that there’s a small bit of power that comes across a USB cable when it’s hooked to your computer. So in theory, if you have enough cables hooked to your computer (not through a hub), you can get some serious juice out of it. Somebody rigged up 30 USB ports and managed to cook some meat with it.

I don’t know if I’d eat it, though.

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Some people are crazy. 😉

you’re going to need a powerful PSU for that.

Red says:

Any geek knows that there’s a small bit of power that comes across a USB cable when it’s hooked to your computer comes straight from the power supply!
Drain too much and you’ll crash your computer and possibly do damage to it.