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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WindowBack when I was a student I spent a year living with a mental engineering student named Ed who didn’t like the inconvenience of having to open the fridge to see if there were any cans of lager inside. One day I returned from lectures to find he’d taken an angle grinder to our beloved cooler-of-beer and made a little window so he could peer inside without having to open the door.
The fridge wheezed along for about a week, sort of doing a one-appliance rave in the corner of the kitchen before it gave up the will to live and died.
Scarily, Ed now services suspension bridges for a living throughout the UK.
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SpankyHanky, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 16:50,
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What was your electric bill like for that week?And how did you explain it to the landlord?
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Fridge exploded?We used that for a broken door.
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