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I have like 30 old hard drives laying around and have been thinking about doing a cool art installation with them for a while.
Maybe shatter the platters to create a spiky landscape and epoxy them in, or something like that.
Any ideas?
Their density makes them ring like a bell, if suspended by a wire through the center. Good wind chimes.
Will have to try that, also a good way to one-up my neighbor with those CDs hanging outside. :)
If you have different types you could do an exploded view hardware showcase
Yes, I've got quite a few types, good idea.
No, but you do, and I like this ob-jay-dar
I used to collect AOL cds. I had a stack a few feet high. I was going to make some sort of artwork out of them.
I use old platters to hang around our chicken houses. The idea is to distract hawks and eagles with the sparkle as they spin in the breeze... Probably doesn't work, but I like the shiny disks :)
we do that around the veggie garden, but with aol cds.
Yeah I started with CDs but found they deteriorate relatively quickly ... :)
Yes. Got to admit mine just isn't as big as yours, though.
Nice : )
Now I am feeling sorry I did not...
I've been lucky enough to not have a drive die on me yet.
I wish I got that many hard drives just so I could do this.
I'm much more interested in your kit in the background.
That is a self-made soldering kit box I made when I was in college and had to haul it around a lot. I have actually been meeting to replace it with something more permanent now that I'm a grown up with my own house. I have an air flow soldering rig which doesn't really have a home, and I could have a much better use of space. I have my brocade ICX6610-24 next to that which I've been programming for way too long, and a whole bunch of 3D printer parts on top of that.
That kit box would actually be perfect for my needs as this is a hobby I only visit occasionally or when needed. It would be great to have something I can easily store.
Challenge accepted. I'll post our collection tomorrow! I used some magnets to hold up a white board last week too. Hahaha
There's some really fun chemistry in the rare-earth magnets - I used to buy them in bulk to enlarge my own IT-workshop collection, which was mostly broken down for Nd salts. Also, the magnets from iMac screens were also plentiful when HDD magnets got small (and then went extinct).
Back in the day I bought a fridge freezer combo, second hand, no handles. Used to be a built in model. As handles I used two magnets from full height drives, they were ludicrously strong and shaped like a little bit like a handle.
Full height drives were 3.25" high for those who are wondering.
This man self-hosts
Thought it was just me. Used to have at least twice this many in my old office:
I use the old disks as costers
I havest them for the BlooDisk God Linuxathor, we are not the same.