How do you keep a few sodas in your classroom cool? Well, if you are teacher [Ethan Hunt], you have your students design and build a solid-state mini refrigerator that can beat his prototype fridge.

The Peltier chip (TEC chip) is a thermo-element that utilizes the Peltier effect to implement a heat pump. It has two plates — one cold and the other hot. Between the plates, there are several ...

If you need to cool something, the gold standard is using a gas compressor arrangement. Of course, there are definite downsides to that, like weight, power consumption, and vibrations. There are solid ...

Way back I used a rather powerful peltier module to cool my GPU to sub zero temperatures. A secondary watercooling loop removed the combined heat of the GPU + peltier (in)efficiency. The GPU died as I ...

In Part 1, we did an overview of the general concept of the Peltier device. In this installment, we are going to continue the discussion around controlling the device and some initial packaging. For a ...