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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Speaking of fusesNot me, but a mate™, had an amplifier and took the lid off to tweak the potentiometers in it to up the power or something. Personally, I think he just liked pissing about. Anyway, so the routine was switch it off at the mains, tweak the pot, switch it back on and test it, repeat. He then noticed the internal fuse and by removing that, it saved him having to walk the 3 paces to the wall socket.
He managed this routine another 3 times until while poking about he suddenly lurched backward and did the best impression of a lion's roar I have ever heard. It turns out he had shorted the internal fuse teminals with his thumb. Oddly, it made him gums bleed and then he stood there and giggled for a good 10 mins.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 16:29,
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