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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Coronation Street With No TVI was once between homes, and my TV had been stored away (or lost, I forget). By chance though, I still had my video player, a coathanger and some headphones.
I managed, over the course of about an hour, to stick a coathanger in the back of the video player and used the remote control to tune the channels (without any picture, of course). By plugging the headphones into the back of the video, it was possible to 'watch' TV and spare my utter boredom for those couple of weeks.
It was almost a shame when my TV returned, as I'd learnt to develop my own mind's eye images of the characters. Betty Turpin in particular was worth one, for me.
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Norbert Lightowler, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 11:42,
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Used to do that with my scannerwhen bored with not (I repeat, NOT, because it's illegal) listening to the cops whilst driving.
Won't even be able to do that soon, farewell analogue TV!
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eXOBeX, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 17:28,
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