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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Ok right,When I was 3, I used to play on my brother's ZX Spectrum.
Only thing was it was a bit shit and you had to hold the cassette drive closed a particular way to make it load properly.
Anyway, eventually, we figured out that Mum's wooden spatula that she used to beat us with would work rather well at keeping the drive closed in just the right way if we jammed it in right, so we nicked it from her.
Two birds - one stone. No more beatings and a working Spectrum - happy days!
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Posh Girl apparently, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 3:37,
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Are youmy daughter??
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speccy hacksI'm sure everyone of a certain age has a speccy story, we used to use a paperclip to hold the powerlead in on the old 48k bless her
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sounds likeyour azimuth was out of wack. I used to achieve the same result with half a clothes peg.
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