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| Thread ID: 110261 | 2010-06-09 20:48:00 | Recycled Hard Drive Clocks | kahawai chaser (3545) | PC World Chat |
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| 1108564 | 2010-06-09 20:48:00 | Interesting article from Joe Tech (www.joetech.com), that I subscribe to, about recycled hard drives converted to clocks. Anyone here heard of similar "art type" hard drive conversions? | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1108565 | 2010-06-09 22:40:00 | This shows how to make one into a rotary input device. I know it's not art but never mind (also, check out their steam-punk section, some interesting keyboards) www.instructables.com |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1108566 | 2010-06-10 00:28:00 | Saw one where they turned it into a wind chime | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1108567 | 2010-06-10 00:53:00 | Saw one of mine which failed sail through the air to smash into a concrete garage wall with all my unbacked data on it. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1108568 | 2010-06-10 02:05:00 | This shows how to make one into a rotary input device. I know it's not art but never mind (also, check out their steam-punk section, some interesting keyboards) www.instructables.com Interesting and perhaps a challenge, as they also designed the circuit board. Appears though the actual HDD platters (I think that's what they are called?) or optical pickup are not used... |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1108569 | 2010-06-10 02:08:00 | Saw one of mine which failed sail through the air to smash into a concrete garage wall with all my unbacked data on it. Yikes! Bits and bytes everywhere... |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1108570 | 2010-06-10 02:19:00 | Saw one where they turned it into a wind chime I read where the platters were used as the chimes -but from 3 or 4 hard drives. I thought their would be sufficient platters in a single HDD (six?) |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1108571 | 2010-06-10 02:42:00 | hackaday.com Beat that. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 1108572 | 2010-06-10 04:12:00 | I don't think they'll work, what with a 7,500 or 10,000 RPM, the hands will be moving too fast to even read! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1108573 | 2010-06-10 05:51:00 | I read where the platters were used as the chimes -but from 3 or 4 hard drives. I thought their would be sufficient platters in a single HDD (six?) Six is quite high for any drive, now that they can cram 640GB on 1 platter. All new 500GB drives and below are only 1 platter, the older drives sometimes have more. The early 1TB drives had 5 platters I think |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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