Now the national drink is powering machinery. Sort of (Picture: SWNS)

It may just be the most Scottish thing to ever happen.

John Lawson and his colleagues have built a computer with a cooling system based on the nation’s favourite bright orange refreshment (or John’s at least), Irn Bru.

And they’ve called it the Aye-Mac.

Sadly, the coolant isn’t actual Irn Bru – it just looks incredibly like it.


However the 750ml glass Irn Bru bottle centrepiece is real. The bottle is then connected to flowing tubes, filled with a special orange faux-Bru liquid, which cools the machine and its circuits.

Check out its tartan tablecloth too (Picture: SWNS)

John, owner of PC Doctor in Edinburgh, said the computer, which now takes pride of place in his shop window, took him a year to complete after he had to track necessary parts from as far as Ukraine.



‘I’m interested in designing different coolant systems and being innovative in different ways,’ he explained. ‘We are always drinking Irn Bru in the shop,’ he added (proof below) ‘and I wanted to do something different to attract some attention.’

Twitter immediately agreed that, yes, it was definitely the most Scottish thing to ever happen.

Is this Irn-Bru cooled computer the most Scottish thing EVER? pic.twitter.com/z99xoP5opx — Stuart Ritchie (@StuartJRitchie) September 1, 2015

Although one Facebook user commented: ‘Real Scotsmen deep fry their PCs.’

Meanwhile, John says he’s open to all requests for custom-built machines. ‘Anything is possible’, he says. The DC powered by Diet Coke perhaps?

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