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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Mr BodgeI am well known amongst my friends as the king of bodgers. My guitar amp was probably the best though.
When I was in a band in my uni days I was, as you would expect piss poor. However our band needed a guitar amp. 'No problem' says I. A short trip on ebay and 2 speakers and a 300w car amp were heading my way. A battered old cabinet was given to us from the practice studio as well. But how to power such a beast? Car amps are DC and mains is AC. A PC power supply of course! I am still not sure how I did not die/set fire to our house or how I guessed it but I managed to open up the PSU (bad idea guys unless you really know what your doing) solder on some wiring and fix this through to the amp. Voila! To actually get distortion and stuff we used a zoom pedal. It actually worked pretty damn well. And for the piece de' le resistance... I managed to wire in some Christmas lights too. The guys were all scared of it but It did quite a few gigs with us :)
Once the band got a proper amp I move the amp into a bread bin, gave it neons and it gave us a kicking home sound system.
Other bodges include a wooden PC case, the remote club, the two level entertainment system holding all our consoles and two decent tv's and loads and loads of PC bodges :p
Good times
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