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New uses for dead PPC parts

MacCubed

MacCubed

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So today I looked through my drawer, found some dead optical and hard drives, and thought I'd repurpose some, so far I've turned a slot-load DVD drive from a Ti-Book into a speaker and I've got other parts to mess with. Got 2 dead HDDs and a few more optical drives. Any ideas?
 

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I use dead hard drives (particularly laptop drives) as drink coasters.
 
LightBulbFun said:
So Im not the only one to do that? Yay LOL (my main drink coaster is the top cover from a maxtor IDE drive that died in my MDD)
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It's the only time you can spill liquid on a hard drive and not at all be concerned about it. :D
 
I use an MDD drive cage as a support device for my ADC to DVI adapter's power brick. That brick gets hot and I don't want that heat directly on the floor. So the drive cage goes under it and no problems.
 
I don't know about anyone else here, but old CDs/DVDs also make good drink coasters. I use those all the time too. It's one way to reuse all those old AOL media I use to get in the mail as well as disks that didn't burn right.
 
eyoungren said:
I don't know about anyone else here, but old CDs/DVDs also make good drink coasters. I use those all the time too. It's one way to reuse all those old AOL media I use to get in the mail as well as disks that didn't burn right.
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I did not mention it since I thought every one has done it (a common term around here for a CD/DVD that did not burn right is "Oh my computer burnt a coaster") LOL I also saw some one who uses a dead dual slot graphics card as there Coaster LOL
 
How did you turn an optical drive into a speaker? I thought you can only turn hard drives into speakers.
 
eyoungren said:
I don't know about anyone else here, but old CDs/DVDs also make good drink coasters. I use those all the time too. It's one way to reuse all those old AOL media I use to get in the mail as well as disks that didn't burn right.
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CD's and dvd's make good bird chasers when hung with a bit of mono fish line over and amongst your berry patches.

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as they twist spin and flash in the lightest of breeze.
 
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I know what part would be a good drink coaster.

A fan! :D

You can put your drink on it, then power the fan and spin your drink!
 
Clock

If you want a few days project, you can turn an old hard drive into persistence of vision display.
There are lots of videos on Youtube about making clocks out of hard drives.
 
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