Techno-shamanism! I made a dream-catcher made from some plates.
I made a wind chime once that I really loved. Had to dirty the plates because they could catch the sun well enough to vaporize your retinas
I made a DRAM catcher once.
Oh wow!
This is cool, but honestly kind of a deranged question to ask.
Does anybody else harvest the teeth of their victims and put them on a keychain?
Or fashion bow ties from their testicles. . ?
Fair, my home office is a monument to too much free time, a hoarding habit for ewaste, and a wife who works weekends and overnights.
Thought it was just me. Used to have at least twice this many in my old office:
That’s rad, and you did an amazing job keeping them whole. Recently I have been wrapping them in cloth, then the kids form clay around them for various fridge and office magnets.
That’s a good idea. Yeah, the trick I discovered in getting them off the mounting bracket without the chrome plating peeling is to grab each end of the bracket with vice grips and/or pliers (after you unscrew it from the drive) and just bend it down and away from the magnet. They usually come off in one piece that way, too.
I’ve done some of that, recently I have an old putty knife and I will put it right against the crack and just hammer it which will unstick it enough that I can pull it off. Newer drives definitely have weaker magnets than some of my much older ones.
Wow it looks like a light sweeper
That’s a funny looking Stanley cup.
Dude’s the Predator of the IT world
Pretty sure that title is firmly held by mcafe, even now.
I don’t have the space to hoard garbage.
just the magnets. They are very nice magnets.
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I use them as coffee mats…
I do that with save icons!
The 3.5s make for excellent coasters lol
I used to make clocks with the platters and give them to friends and family. Michael’s used to sell inexpensive clock mechanisms that looked really cool against the platter background. I haven’t seen them lately, but I’m sure someone sells them online.
That’s very cool, do you have a picture of them?
No, because I am worried the NSA may try to collate data from them. In fact, I zero-wipe, drill bit the drives in the platters and the PCB, and drop them off at e-waste for recycling.
Yes. The magnets are ridiculously strong. Several hold screen in place on my heat exchanger, to keep leaves and lawn debris at bay.
Haven’t figured out a good use for the platters, but skeet shooting has crossed my mind.
I thought you made a custom thermos bottle at first
Same.
Macabre.
Yet also (bitter-)sweet, those drives gave everything they had for you, it’s only right to honor their memory & remember them.
I just open the drives & put them on shelves.
