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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I scared a forumMany years ago I did model airoplanes; I invested in an airbrush, but couldn't afford a compressor and was finding the cans of air difficult to obtain. One day I was in a DIY shop and noticed cans of propane with a screw top (similar to the air cans I used). "Aha" thinks I "I wonder if I could use these cheap propane cans to propel my paint" and asked that question on a modelling website.
The responses were generally panicky; "Dont you'll fill your room with explosive gas". One person asked if the sky was green on my planet.
It turns out the thread runs the "other" way, to stop idiots like me blowing themselves up.
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