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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Pea-Roast : Polo MintsMr Silver Surfer was a techie beyond extreme... A radio ham amongst other things...
A long long time ago (20+ years), he used to develop software to test electronic equipment (whilst in the design stage). Pretty serious boffin stuff.
His office was subjected to some git stealing biscuits and sweets that may have been left around overnight.
His solution was to get a pack of Polo mints and remove them (including the silver foil) from the wrapper.
He then removed a strip of the foil across the centre of pack, reattached the two halves (with the gap) with tape and placed it back in the wrapper
Opening the ends of packet, he inserted a capacitor of some strength that was fully charged (don't get too techie here with the challenges - I don't know) and then connected the terminal ends to the foil at each end of the packet.
The packet was duly left on a desk that evening and strangely there were no more thefts after that.
(, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 13:43, 1 reply)
Shocking behaviour.(
idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:02,
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