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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high voltage stupidityMy younger brother developed an unhealthy interest in making really big sparks while studying electronics, it culminated in a DIY Marx generator, a device normally used by test labs to simulate lightening strikes.
Foot long sparks, the smell of ozone, electrical equipment going nuts all over the house and one distinctly unimpressed mother. Result
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Similar voltage boosting anticswith a B3ta-friendly nomenclature...
Cock-croft Walton Amplifier
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 1:44,
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It's a Tesla GeneratorNikolai Tesla - liked Electricity, good scientist
Karl Marx - created Marxism and inspired Lenin who created the Soviet Union which was responsible for the death of an untold many.
now, who wants to see my Hitler Transformer?
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I just got an image of Optimus Prime with a toothbrush moustache.:D
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