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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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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