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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telephone cable piped musicIn our last house there were telephone extension cables going everywhere when we moved in, and we didn't really need them. I also had a few pairs of computer speakers lying around, so I piped music all over the house out of the back of my computer, using sellotape (yay extra points!) to connect them to a headphone jack off of some knackered headphones, and sellotaping the cables together where necessary. The sound was surprisingly good. As good as the computer speakers would have come out with normally.
The computer was in my office, which was actually the garage of the house. As it had no windows it became known as the cave, and I as captain caveman. Rather foolishly I thought it would be funny to set captain cavemans call as my email noise. Nothing quite makes you jump like captain caveman yelling "blawhadlywahaha" at top volume from several places in your house!
length? It went all the way up the stairs baby.
(, Sat 22 Aug 2009, 15:28, 1 reply)
Nothing quite makes you jump like captain caveman yelling "blawhadlywahaha" at top volume from several places in your house!Great mental image here. Have clicks.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sun 23 Aug 2009, 3:02,
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