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I have several of these laying around. Any fun things I can do with them besides making them into speakers?
Fun things to do with old 1GB hard drives?
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How about beating the shit out of them? That's always fun.
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Avant garde art?
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Somewhere I remember seeing a HUGE hard drive platter being used as a coffee table. I'm talking 4-5ft in diameter. It was fucking pimp!
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Shove them up your ass. That's always a popular option.
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not sonic said:
Oh man that was a great TSS segment.
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Take your 1GB Hard drives, take chlorine tablets and rubbing alcohol and put into a pressurized container like 20 oz bottle, and which the stuff in the container turn into a highly unstable explosive, and use to blow them up. Just a fun suggestion on a bored day.
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Sharpen them, and turn them into shuriken.
Shuriken is the Japanese word for "throwing star".
The Japanese characters for shuriken 手裏剣 mean:
shu 手 'sharpened'
ri 裏 'flying'
ken 剣 'hard drive'
Shuriken is the Japanese word for "throwing star".
The Japanese characters for shuriken 手裏剣 mean:
shu 手 'sharpened'
ri 裏 'flying'
ken 剣 'hard drive'
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1 GB is a bit small.
But you can use a 4-6 gb hd with thrift store/dumpster diving parts to make:
MP3 Machine for a car
MP3/Video Machine for a Home Entertainment system
Mame MB for a Cab/TV
Or use it with a USB HardDrive kit.
Another thing to do is put different OS's on all of your small HD's. Then get a switcher. So you could boot your PC to Dos, Linux, Win 98, Win XP by changing the boot HD. Use your regular Hard drive as a secondary drive.
But you can use a 4-6 gb hd with thrift store/dumpster diving parts to make:
MP3 Machine for a car
MP3/Video Machine for a Home Entertainment system
Mame MB for a Cab/TV
Or use it with a USB HardDrive kit.
Another thing to do is put different OS's on all of your small HD's. Then get a switcher. So you could boot your PC to Dos, Linux, Win 98, Win XP by changing the boot HD. Use your regular Hard drive as a secondary drive.
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DanAdamKOF said:
Yes! Take them apart. Make windchimes with the HD platters. Seriously... the material they are composed of has the capability of "dinging" very loudly and for long time.
Also, remove the pair of neodymium magnets from each HD. Anyone who has ever done this will tell you that these magnets are probably the strongest you'll ever get to play with without spending a bundle. Be careful, they will pinch your fingers if you get them between them. Also, they will break very easily if snapped together.
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Eric said:
Yar, i checked the site last night. Is this the real deal holyfield or is it bullshit?. I guess i'd just like to know the science behind how this is working. I know all a speaker is something that essentially vibrates, but is the drive head really vibrating, looks like its just moving back and forth to me.
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