Powered by the Sun and Cooled by the Sea
Built by Darren // @sicknology // I.T. Security Specialist // Northern☘️Ireland
Moviedrome is the ultimate off-grid home media hub and custom PC project. Merging high-end enthusiast computing with commercial-grade green energy🍃 Combining solar energy with a liquid-cooled CPU/GPU creates an exceptionally sustainable, high-performance smart🏠home setup.
🌍 Preserving Cinema, Powered by the Planet
- Physical Media Safeguard Moviedrome is a next-generation archival initiative dedicated to rescuing physical media and safeguarding cinematic history on eco friendly, off grid infrastructure. Inspired by the original BBC Moviedrome with Alex Cox and the legend that is Mark Cousins who introduced a generation to weird and wonderful🎬flim.
- Resisting Digital Degradation Today, films are vanishing. Disc rot, format degradation, and corporate streaming algorithms mean independent cinema and cult masterpieces are at risk of being lost forever.
- 100% Grid Detached This project operates entirely detached from the traditional electrical grid, built to archive and experience physical media without requiring streaming network dependencies.
- Physical Media in the Wild Before a film enters my digital archive, it goes on one final journey across Northern Ireland or the Republic of. I take the physical media out of dark rooms and embed them directly into the wild NI. I hunt down the stark and cinematic Northern Irish backdrops from battered Atlantic coastlines to council estates, i photograph the physical media wherever i feel it fits. 📸
☀️ Powered by the Sun
- 9.1 kWp Solar Array 20 high-efficiency 455W solar panels, a 9.1 kWp solar array ensuring we max out our green energy generation even on🌤️overcast Northern☘️Irish days. The Solar System is optimised to capture maximum daylight that powers the whole house and gardens.
- Dura-i Hybrid 6kW Inverter The central system brain managing power routing with 97.3% efficiency.
- Dura16 Battery Storage Commercial-grade storage bank to fuel A.I processing power. The Dura16 Battery pack stores 16.1kW of🔋power each, Usable amount 85% @ 13.69 kWh connect up to 12 units in 15% Reserve Limit @ 164.28 kWh usable (leaves 28.92 kWh protected).
- Grid Isolation Hardware Heavy-duty Changeover Switch paired with a dedicated physical Earthspike⚡makes this a true Emergency Power Supply (EPS) off-grid system during blackouts.
🌊 Cooled by the Sea
- 99.9% Pure Copper CPU Water Block Water cooled with 99.9% copper blocks for instant thermal transfer. The 27mm thick radiator encompasses 14 rows of aluminum tubes paired with dense 20mm folded fins for rapid heat dissipation.
- High-Performance Pump Loop Multi-Chamber Technology (M.C.T.) eliminates flow dead-zones and reduces fluid resistance, moving water rapidly while keeping pump noise under an imperceptible 20 dBA.
🎬 Film Room // Office // Living Area
- Custom 9ft Cinema Screen In the Film Room is a homemade 9ft Screen with 7 Coats of Super White Flat Matt and blackwidow mix with a 3 inch Crushed Velvet Pure Black Surround. 1000Watt Dolby Atmos creates a class 3D listening experience🌀
- Custom Media Wall The living area is a Modern bright Custom Media Wall design with soft pinks and earthy olive geeens, a Multi-Burner Focal Point and solid irish oak mantel. The tech is a Hidden 1000 Watt 3D Dolby Atmos system, this living area flows into the garden🌳which flows into the forest🌳.
- Smart Infrastructure & Deer Cam! 🦌 The house is engineered with a future-proof network infrastructure that seamlessly blends high speed wired performance with shielded CAT8 cabling forming a lightning fast physical backbone supplying (PoE) Power over Ethernet to an integrated CCTV security network. (Code Name🦌Deer Watch!) The network has collective intelligence and When a single perimeter camera detects a breach, it immediately signals neighboring cameras to pivot, zoom and track. The system also instantly differentiates between human and local wildlife meaning the Deer can be tracked crossing into the forest in peace.
