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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^^^Spot on. For instance, I know the door opener from the touchscreen works 80-90% of the time. I know that the TV works around 95% of the time, and I know how to fix it when it goes wrong.
I probably could make all this work 99.9% of the time, but not all the time I'm tinkering with it - it's to be expected. Sometimes when I have an idea, it means changing some of the stuff that works...and that means that the stuff that works, will invariably end up NOT working until I bodge it through.
It would take a hell of a lot of work and dosh to make something like this commercially viable, but then I suppose that's what that Dragon's Den is all about.
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