After building my parents a new PC a few months back, I decided to dismantle their old one to make use of the beautiful legacy components of days gone by. Some of the components I made use of immediately and some I have yet to find a use for, however, today I made a thing…
I was dismantling the floppy disk drive and after playing about with the components, I decided the tray looked pretty neat…so I did what any logical person would do…
I made a clock. Like, obviously!
So what should guys think? The clock face goes in the middle and I have the perfect donor candidate lying around…somewhere, waiting to have its face transplanted.
The motherboard is floating in my shelving unit but I’m still not sure what todo with the awesome heat sink. No doubt ill get bored one day and do something with it, it still has the processor stuck to it by the solidified thermal paste
Wow that is hilarious! Me and some people in my computer engineering class set up 8 of these to work as a music player thing… It’s hard to describe. I need to find the video.
I know what you mean Shen, like each one set at a different frequency to make a different note when it’s revved up. I’ve seen people do this before with hard drives
Thanks Kat! Honestly though, I think the suspended motherboard looks cooler. The shelving unit is temporary for now but I plan to install it in my new shelving unit maybe with an LED spotlight pointing down onto it, I’ll mess around with a couple of ideas… TO IKEA! haha
Oh my, this waffle looks delicious, thank you #>(^_^)
He sounds pretty awesome. I’ve only got the one floppy drive, if I had more I’d probably make more of these and sell them somewhere rather than going through the process of doing something cool like that with them haha
Well I know a site run here called Freecycle where people put stuff up to give away as long as you collect it. I wonder how many people there are out there with floppy drives, looking for a nice warm him where they will be loved and cared for…
MWUHAHAHA little do they know I shall tear them apart and rip out their guts, rearranging them into a mangled and warped broken version of themselves.
…the floppy drives…not the people…just to clarify…
They don’t even take that long to make really. I realise that not all floppy drives will have the same internals but they must all stick to the same general idea and hey, a bit of variation makes everything that little bit more unique. I dunno, I may just have to look into this…
Any ideas where I can sell things like that though, online?