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 want to...... connect music and video to different rooms of the house using bits of copper wire and blu-tack.
... electrify my doorbell so it zaps anyone stupid enough to ring it between 1am and 5am (except at the weekends).
... add exciting gadgets to my guitar using tinfoil and the insides of a christmas cracker
just like all the other people here. As it is, my most exciting DIY hack to date is that, for want of a soldering iron, I clipped the wires back on the speaker of my bass amp by squeezing them together with some bits of tin foil. This was 8 years ago. I bought a soldering iron at least 5 years ago, and didn't get round to finishing the job. Still works though.
Oh, and I have an S-Video to Scart cable, and I used two little bits of tin-foil to make it go into colour instead of the black&white image I was getting before. Now we can play Warcraft 3 on the TV!
(, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 15:43, 2 replies)
Just a heads upyou could get sued by anyone who gets hurt by your doorbell.
(, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 15:51, closed)
Fair point.Maybe I'll only zap them a little bit.
(, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 16:56, closed)
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