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Recycle Years of Broken Hard Drives into a Surprisingly Non-Dorky Clock
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 3:00 AM on November 2, 2008
Instructables has posted a guide to breaking down 3.5" hard drives and creating a wall clock out of the pieces. The guide calls for a bunch of the washers used to separate hard drive platters as well as the innards of a cheapie clock the builder had lying around. It's a pretty easy project, but what's remarkable is how cool it looks by the end. You wouldn't know it's made of hard drives; it just looks like an industrial sort of sculpture that tells time. [Instructables]
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jonny
Posted 4:18 AM 2/11/08
Another nice thing to come out of a old drive are some incredibly strong magnets.
jonny
justreboot
Posted 4:03 AM 2/11/08
guess you could call the 'sculpture' doin' hard time...
justreboot
shorty6049
Posted 4:37 AM 2/11/08
@jonny:
i think they're neodymium iron boron magnets. (aka rare earth magnets) they're the strongest natural magnets in the world
shorty6049
shorty6049
Posted 4:36 AM 2/11/08
why no platters?
shorty6049
unkpku has a really long fucking screenname because i saw some o
Posted 5:01 AM 2/11/08
Dude, their washers.
unkpku has a really long fucking screenname because i saw some other people do it
appletag
Posted 6:05 AM 2/11/08
@shorty6049: My experience is they tarnish.
I might give this one a go. I love those rings. If you throw them down on their edge they bounce with an incredibly loud ring.
appletag
DaSmith
Posted 8:30 AM 2/11/08
To make the clock dorky you can use one that has an alarm and connect the alarm to a working hard drive, that stores alarm ring tones and the clock should be able to play them through your Hi-Fi system to wake you up in the morning :) Although it would be pretty hard to do this...
DaSmith
Eruanno
Posted 9:25 AM 2/11/08
Sooo... how do you actually tell what time this clock is?
Or rather, if you turn it upside down by mistake, can you flip it back? (Okay, the big cogwheel-thingamajig appears to be the twelve, but let's say I didn't know that.)
Eruanno
kaizoku80
Posted 10:21 AM 2/11/08
@Eruanno:
If you are an adult and you can't tell the approximate time by the position of the hands on an analog clock, you suck at life.
kaizoku80
mfusion
Posted 11:37 AM 2/11/08
@kaizoku80: agreed.
mfusion
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
Posted 3:04 PM 2/11/08
@Eruanno: The Movado designers just hung themselves.
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
Toshie
Posted 5:48 PM 2/11/08
@Kaiser 'The Undead Cookie Brought to Life With Lightning an...: What was the time of death?
Toshie
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
Posted 11:47 PM 2/11/08
@Toshie: Beats me. No numbers on the face.
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
x23
Posted 12:21 AM 3/11/08
seeing as i have like a stack of 20 completely dead 3.5" drives... i should really try this out. that and the windchime one.
or the one where i just take one apart for no good reason and make broaches / cufflinks / cod-pieces / monocles / water fountains / birth-control devices / a free-energy machine / etc... until i am also featured on Instructables/MAKE.
x23
Toshie
Posted 5:53 AM 4/11/08
@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: ...
Toshie