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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MMMM wiresI once had a lovely Atari stfm 520. I was rather into making music on it. My kids called it Dustbin music because of the heavy bass I used. (Surprisingly similar tunes to mine turned up about five years later as techno.) Anyway I thought it would be a good idea to wire it up to some speakers. At the same time I thought "Why not the telly too".
After stripping many bits of three core cable apart and joining all the wires using sticky paper labels, it worked. Except now that the computer came through the telly speakers, the telly through the stereo and the stereo through the telly. Then our pet rat ate the wires.
Eventually got it all the right way round. Sounded niiiice.
(, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 7:31, Reply)
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