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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This was about 20 years ago (yipes!!)so the exact method is hazy but, from how I remember it, there was some sort of capacitor in the box that stored the charge ready to unleash. All I had to do was connect the device (with wire / jumper-cable clip things) to something metal I wanted to be "live".
I can assure you, it did work (without the need for obliging victims - I guess the same way electric fences work without the need to wrap your cattle in foil.)
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Zak McFlimby Twibbling @McFlimby, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 17:25,
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I must enter a subjectYup - you'd defo need a capacitor and some form of step-up device for the voltage would probably help too.
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