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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DIY "surround" soundWhen I was about 15 I decided that what would really enhance my life was adding surround sound to the TV in my room. The principle seemed straightforward enough, simply open the beast and stick the relevant speaker wires onto the internal speaker (remembering of course that TVs still hold their charge so being careful not to electrocute myself). Not so good. This just made a slightly tinny noise from the speakers.
Undeterred, I soldered on the male headphone jack from and old pair of headphones, and attached this into my stereo. Stereo acts as an amp and connect as many speakers as possible from the stereo surrounding my bed!
Brilliant, except for the lack of insulating tape meaning that a couple of days later I was lying in bed enjoying my pseudo-surround sound and got an electric shock off of the radiator by my bed and fused the lot!
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@><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 15:15,
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I did a similar thingI removed the cover of the telly, spliced the wires to the interal speaker with RCA input leads and put them into the back of my amp. My thinking was that the output of the speaker would be sent through the amp and out of the BIG speakers. End result? Turned the amp on and then the telly and the amp promply caught fire!
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