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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Don't MicrosoftMake XBox controllers which have a standard A type USB plug on them for using with PCs?
(, Sun 23 Aug 2009, 16:41, 1 reply)
They do.And they're the king of controllers, and they do a wireless version. But all this only started when the 360 came out.
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Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Mon 24 Aug 2009, 12:25,
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Not soThe original Xbox used USB controllers, so you can plug them straight into your PC with the appropriate 99p from eGay adaptor, or plug a mouse/keyboard into your Xbox - useful if you have XBMC like me.
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