DIY Projects

[yarisitis]

So I got my hands on a couple of old hard drives and decided to make some wall art out of them.

What I did basically was cut some plywood to shape for a base, cut up a black pillowcase and wrapped and stapled it to the wood base. Then I just screwed the hard drives onto the base and voila:









I took the magnets out and put them on my oil filter, we'll see if that actually works when I do my next oil change.


Discuss and post your own DIY projects.

[chrisj]

Nice. I used to be a computer tech, and took clock movements and made clocks out of old hard drives. Gave them away to friends.

[zahirrahman]

cool, i got a lot of drives laying around i'm about to make me one of these too!!

[jpmck03]

Very nice!

[zahirrahman]

@PK198105 i just started making one myself... but keeping them live isnt a good option cuz mine making all sorts of clicking noises!

[yarisitis]

Originally Posted by zahirrahman

cool, i got a lot of drives laying around i'm about to make me one of these too!!

Cool, post some pictures when it's done.

Originally Posted by PK198105

neat idea, but why not reuse them also , you could make a Wall Hard Drive Array, these look like they are the old IDE drives, you could get a IDE to USB adapter for like 5$ each and make a functional piece of art. I bet it would look cool with the drives spinning. Too bad you took out the magnets.


As for the magnets on your oil filter , not sure if its a good idea since they might contribute to blockage in the oil filter , the metal particles get stuck at the magnet thus reducing the filter lifespan,i think it would be better to put them in/on the oil pan.

These hard drives are 19 GB's and under. I got them from my sister who had 4 old computers lying around (like PII's and PIII's) and wanted me to erase the data on the hard drives so I just took them out and did this instead.

That's a cool idea you have though, I've seen some people turn hard drives into clocks with LED's and with the platters spinning too, looks pretty cool.

If I get a bunch of old hard drives again I'm thinking about making a mirror or wind chimes out of the platters like these (minus the circuit boards on the mirror):

[chrisj]

Yeah, by the time I have a hard drive that's up for it's next life as a clock, that hard drive is fried. Anytime I can reuse an old hard drive I do. Matter of fact, I stopped backing stuff up on DVD and started backing up on SATA hard drives instead. I have one of those docks and I just change 'em out.

BTW, I like the disc mobile! I have a ton of those clear ones that come in DVD cake boxes and have been trying to think of something to do with them...hmmm.