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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Not me but my sisterWhen my sister was a wee kid she built all kinds of gadgetry. There was the post-man trap, a shallow but lethal hole dug in the front lawn. A door bell made from a lamp shade hung out of her bedroom window on a length of wool.
My brother & his young friend invented a great game, my sister would stand in the front garden (being carful of the post-man trap) then run about and shout as he would launch 12’’ vinyl records out of the window at her.
I made a fantastic thing to adorn my teenage bedroom I got 2 oscilloscopes (ooh I plugged them in to my stereo - wiggly lines to the music, bearing in mind this pre MS media player. My best friend almost died from jealously) to top this fabulous creation I found a marine receiver (I don’t know what it suppose to do, but it looked nice) between them.
(, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 13:43, 4 replies)
Postman trapRoyal Mail suffered many a broken anckle. Ingenious for a little girl.
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You Utter Bastard.Lies, all scandalous lies!
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Utter truthYou know you made some fab contraptions – let me think…. I will come up with some more. Do you remember when the boy made the ‘best’ bike, with the tiny front wheel?
Ah, just remembered one, the model rabbit constructed solely from tampons and sellotape - not so much a techno hack more a sanitary hack but it made me smile.
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