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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Success beyond my expectations.I bought a cheap second-hand motherboard a while back, and they threw in a P4 cpu for free. The reason it was free was because one of the legs was missing. So, I thought I might try and bodge it. I got a bit of thin copper wire, cut it to about 2mm long and inserted it into the socket in the correct hole that matched the missing pin.
It sounds like horseshit, but it actually worked. But only if the computer was orientated so that the motherboard was horizontal, and the cpu fan had to turned down low because of the vibration. In fact, a bit of vibration (such as bumping the desk when I sat down) would cause it to crash.
Notwithstanding the intermitant crashes, I used it for maybe a week or so because that's how long it took for my glory to wear off.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 15:33,
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Clicks ...and steals "Notwithstanding the intermitant crashes, I used it for maybe a week or so because that's how long it took for my glory to wear off."
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