DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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InterestingCould it be that he knew there was a defect in the ring main, or an under-rated spur? This could have been an unusual and creative attempt to avoid an electrical fire, caused by a heavy load where the existing fixed wiring couldn't stand one. But this is the first I've heard of someone actually connecting wiring in parallel like this.
That said, I've heard of people starting fires by connecting the entire domestic load through one socket and a shipload of power strips; in the misguided belief that this would lower their electricity bill.
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