
Old 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.
( , Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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I made a remote control for my stereo by wrapping a piece of string twice around the volume knob, behind the radiator and around the bedstead.
Yay, now I could adjust the volume whilst lying in bed.
The next morning, I lay there pondering why I'd not thought of a way to turn the thing on first...
( , Thu 20 Aug 2009, 14:23, Reply)
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