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 recently learnt that the worst thing that you can dowhenyou dropped your phone in the loo is use a hairdryer to try and dry it. This apparently forces the water deeper into the device.
Instead start with a hoover to suck the water out and then use silica gel (from those lovely new shoes that you bought) to dry it more.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 Aug 2009, 11:28,
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driving water deeperIf it's clean water - it doesn't really matter.
If it's dirty - you need to rinse it out anyway.
A hairdrier doesn't really do what you want - which is sustained high temperatures.
Rice - or silica gel - is generally not great.
Even in a really dry place at 25C - not much water will evaporate.
Raise the temp to 50 or 80C for a day or so - and all the water gets out.
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