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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Batteries killed the radio starBack in the days or old I had one of those big chunky cassette walkmans, however I grew tired of the weedy AA size batteries dying after only a couple of hours, hardly enough tape time to get through the average school day.
I then discovered in the garage Dad had a stash of much beefier looking D cell batteries. So I set about modifying my walkman with some serious battery life. I wired up a dozen of the batteries in 6 parallel circuits of 2 batteries. OK so the battery pack was twice the size of the walkman but it would be great!
It played about 22 hours of music before the wiring inside the walkman melted.
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I now have a strangedesire to try this out for myself. Have a click!
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SpankyHanky, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 15:46,
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I made do with 4 'D' cells on mine (2x2)and it worked fine for several years. I never bothered working out how long it lasted, but as there was no car stereo in the then-evilsteviemobile my non-walkman having a speaker on the tape-lid meant it had extended use up and down the M6.
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evilstevie misses the Orange Place of late, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:24,
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I destroyed a ghetto blasterwith a car battery.
Cost about a fiver (in 1987) to put in normal batteries and worked for about 8 hours so it had to be done.
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Sat 22 Aug 2009, 10:59,
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