Some background: I have like half a dozen Noctua fans left from my gamer days, now I barely game but I don’t wanna waste those good fan, they push lots of air, I want to repurpose them to a mini desk fan but don’t want to pay Noctua price, how do I achieve something like this?
Just buy a reasonably priced 120/140mm fan, buy a cheap controller for it on Amazon for $5, and 3D print the shroud.
There are a lot of other options for the airflow shroud on Thingiverse.
Agnt_DRKbootie
A box fan and some Bluetooth headphone’s / dongle should set you back by like $50
Desk fans are pretty cheap but you’d have to either tape a cardboard tube around the fan edge and find a way to stand it or 3d print a shroud.
EnviousMedia
I 3d printed basically this although I designed my own fan controller, there are off the shelf ones that’ll do the same thing.
Hot_Cheese650
This is crazy timing, my wife recently bought a new hair-dryer that came with a bunch of attachments. One of them is shaped like this wind tunnel piece. I attached it to a 140mm case fan with some zip ties and keep it under my desk to keep my lower body cool.
It worked like a charm. No more swamp ass during the summer.
MireyMackey
I know they published the official 3D model to be printed with the exact same design. You can search it up
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Some background: I have like half a dozen Noctua fans left from my gamer days, now I barely game but I don’t wanna waste those good fan, they push lots of air, I want to repurpose them to a mini desk fan but don’t want to pay Noctua price, how do I achieve something like this?
3D printer
https://preview.redd.it/6mrh3oik81bd1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4c1ad1b0e19823ebc5c19bbf9ef486a6a1c8bf4
Plenty of designs on internet, you can even control them with an arduino.
[https://www.printables.com/model/189684-noctua-style-desk-fan-140mm](https://www.printables.com/model/189684-noctua-style-desk-fan-140mm)
Just buy a reasonably priced 120/140mm fan, buy a cheap controller for it on Amazon for $5, and 3D print the shroud.
There are a lot of other options for the airflow shroud on Thingiverse.
A box fan and some Bluetooth headphone’s / dongle should set you back by like $50
Desk fans are pretty cheap but you’d have to either tape a cardboard tube around the fan edge and find a way to stand it or 3d print a shroud.
I 3d printed basically this although I designed my own fan controller, there are off the shelf ones that’ll do the same thing.
This is crazy timing, my wife recently bought a new hair-dryer that came with a bunch of attachments. One of them is shaped like this wind tunnel piece. I attached it to a 140mm case fan with some zip ties and keep it under my desk to keep my lower body cool.
It worked like a charm. No more swamp ass during the summer.
I know they published the official 3D model to be printed with the exact same design. You can search it up