New Ways to Play with an Old Hardware
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"QUANTUM SHOT" #288link Creative Recycling of your old PC Given the Moore's law that the power of computers doubles every 24 months, we end up with a lot of useless devices and obsolete hardware, that you sure can recycle in a normal way, but it's much more fun to recycle it in a wild and unusual ways! Let's see how to give a new life to the computing zombies of yesteryear. First, just rearrange them. You can make nesting dolls out of them, stacking them like matryoshkas: ![]() (image credit: Andy Ihnatko) It's cool but not very practical. Better make a buck displaying them as an avantgarde piece of art: ![]() Make a dinosaur out of motherboards (show them for what they are): ![]() (image credit: Travis Hudson) or a bike out of the hard drives: ![]() (image credit: Alex Andromeda) Hard drives, however, come handy in other things: ![]() Old electronic parts can be re-used in earrings: ![]() or, again in fanciful bikes: ![]() Make runners out of the old keyboard (must be really uncomfortable...probably would not sell outside of Japanese market) ![]() ...but maybe go all out and create a cool costume for Halloween. Something like shown on this old ad: ![]() Make various clock structures: ![]() (image credit: Exler) Good use of CD tray on a picnic: ![]() To chill your drink, attach this to your cup: ![]() Here is a great use of an old mouse in a bathroom: ![]() (image credit: Poison Angel) For animals & pets Use the old monitor husk as a cage for your hamster: ![]() or PC case as a bird-feeder: ![]() Monitors to the max! Sandy Smith arranges a bunch of functioning and dead monitors into walls and sculptures, achieving some sublime effects. Take for example this "Mauritian Sunset" with its rather complex glow: ![]() ![]() The "Crucifix" wall is more rugged, but perhaps more meaningful. The monitors constantly run the most often searched words on Google News - bringing to mind some pseudo-spiritual ideas about "living" words & virtual martyrdom. ![]() ![]() (images credit: Sandy Smith) CDs are cheap and plentiful Fancy applications aside (like this spectroscope...) here are some easy DIY projects: Make a weather vane: ![]() ![]() ![]() (images credit: cvmonofil) Make an LED lamp out of the stack of CDs: ![]() ![]() ![]() (image credit: Max Pantzyrev) Make furniture out of them. Not very comfortable to sit on, but then you can call it a fancy name, like "AOL Throne": ![]() (image credit: Stupidco.com) Enhance a door to your office with this, or do a "wallpaper": ![]() ![]() (image credit: Alarik) Make a killer boomerang (throw very VERY lightly). Range about 9 meters. ![]() Probably the most practical use of all: ![]() Become a true IT warrior, build yourself an armor: ![]() Most impractical use? Utilize the power of snails, to make the "snail mail" come quicker: ![]() What else to do with old CDs? If all else fails you can always hang them around your garden to keep the birds out, or run'em through a powerful paper shredder and use as confetti. If you run out of inspiration, or just can not be bothered, you can always finish off the silly thing with an axe. ![]() Sources: Exler, Lobzik CONTINUE TO NEXT PART Permanent Link... ![]() Category: Computers,Gadgets Related Posts: It's a Geek Thing, Computer Gadgets Roundup Real MB2-631 exam preparation in easy and fast way! Subscribe for 642-631 online training and pass your 642-982 exam in first attempt guaranteed. |
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