Turn that dead HD into something useful
As an entertaining Friday afternoon aside to our discussion earlier this week about how to recover data from a dying hard disk, it turns out there's plenty of uses left for the ones that have finally stopped pining for the fjords.
With this tutorial from HacknMod, you can turn your hard disk into a grinder or sander.
You can make a windchime and a keychain out of the parts inside the hard disk. Classy!
You can turn it into a speaker.
Years ago, my dad used to make clocks out of the huge 14-inch disk platters he used in old HP 3000 minicomputers. Turns out you can do this with the smaller drives of today, too.
Finally, if you acquire enough expired hard disks, you can make a huge domino set out of them.
Practical? Probably not. But hey, it beats throwing them away.
