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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The voltage is irrelevant(although, for what it's worth, I think your multimeter is fucked), it's the power you are intereseted in. which will be about, oooh, the square root of fuck all, by my reckoning.
You might get enough power from a small wind turbine to run a light bulb or two. They are more or less at any scale a waste of time, certainly in the UK.
Oh, and pay your bills by direct debit.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 9:00,
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Really?Because those motherfuckers are putting windmills all over my county. ALL OVER! And they're planning the SEA NEXT!!!!!!!!
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whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 9:06,
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Direct debit.If I was crazy enough to have a bank account, I don't think my level of madness would stretch to letting a utility company control how much money they took from it.
Pah - direct debit? Noooooo thank you Sir! Good luck to you with that one!
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Do you keep your money in the freezeror under the mattress?
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Ina safe. Which is good, because if I go to the safe to get money to pay a bill say, and I am a few quid short, the safe doesn't take another 35 quid or so off me to teach me a lesson, and then do it again a few days later because I had the temerity to ask it.
...and in the till at the local pub.
You'd be suprised at how much easier life gets when you don't have to deal with a bank. Well, you might not be suprised...but it comes to something when life gets easier by NOT using something a private company wants to sell you. Says it all about those types of private companies in my eyes.
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I'mnot so sure it is futile.
It will trickle charge the battery overnight for the most part and the 5v devices will be charged from that.
EDIT: I've just googled for people doing similar things and there's a chap in Arizona who's running his laptop and several lights - his place is remote enough that no electric cables run there. He's using a standard 30v DC motor in 20mph winds. www.instructables.com/id/How_I_built_an_electricity_producing_wind_turbine/?ALLSTEPS
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