Geek Craft

[misterx]

I make windchimes out of mine. I guess that counts as recycling, right? I have enough platters to make two more chimes at the moment. You need a couple sizes of small torx-bit screwdrivers and about 10 minutes to take one apart.

The shiny round things are the platters. They spin around, and a movable arm reads data off them. A little high-tech record player. :) The platters are corrosion resistant and are made of good quality metal with a nice coating. They make a lovely ringing sound.

I assembled these using a section of tent peg for the horizontal section, some strong fishing line, and some beads I got from Lorelei.

5 Platters:


4 Platters:


The magnets inside are crazy strong too, but they are usually attached to an ungainly metal bracket which limits their usefulness. I don't recommend using them as refrigerator magnets unless your child likes to draw on plywood.

Comments

[midnightsrain.livejournal.com]

That's a very cool idea! Thanks for putting out there...I would have never thought of doing something like that. I bet you could sell those at an arts and craft show and make fairly good money from them. Definitely an interesting idea to make use of the old 'puter parts.

[greenpad.livejournal.com]

Found this on my friends of friends page--just had to comment because I made a HD platter windchime a few years ago! I was amazed that the platters were still shiny after a couple of years in the weather. It's in a box since moved :)

Yours looks nicer than mine, btw :)

[midnightsrain.livejournal.com]

AHA! Caught ya! :-)~~~*****

[greenpad.livejournal.com]

I guess you're the friend that this person is a friend of :)

[midnightsrain.livejournal.com]

Too funny! LOL...no biggie...I am notorious for reading my friends friend's pages when I have already read everything else. Must be slow at work for you today, huh?

[greenpad.livejournal.com]

Seems to always be feast or famine :)

[alby.livejournal.com]

Other uses of hard drives ;)

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/07/hard_drive_grinder.html

[theweary.livejournal.com]

This is AWESOME.. I've always wanted to do something cool with disks.. lol.. recycling and it sounds good too I bet.