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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The ZX Spectrum Laptop
I love making pointless electronic and mechanical devices. I did the souped-up toaster in newsletter 324, and above is the one I'm most pleased with so far, a Frankenstein-style combination of a Libretto and a ZX Spectrum. I haven't got around to loading a Spectrum emulator onto it yet but it will come.
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JimM, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 22:04,
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You're crazy ese. I like thatLiking the zx laptop too, great effort!
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LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 22:26,
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Hurrah!(, Sat 22 Aug 2009, 11:22, closed)
Wow, click !Lovely.
I've kept my old speccys, they probably still work but they are mounted in 3d frames as objects of art on my wall. Your mod however is king. We are not worthy !
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Cool, I want one... How are you planning on connecting the keyboard up?
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It is connected...I directly wired the spectrum keyboard to the Libretto's keyboard connector. Then it just needed a new key mapping file to get the buttons to do the right thing.
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JimM, Sat 22 Aug 2009, 19:16,
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IBM Thinkpad Eat Your Heart Outand you too lenovo
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(jaw, deck)This is about 17 tonnes of pure weapons grade neutronium win!
(thinx of BBC version, considers big power supply, sulks)
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DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 18:05,
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