May 16, 2008

Name the Thing Contest - 49
Contests

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  The winner for the last contest will be announced soon. The knife we are giving away this week will help you void warranties like no ones business when you need to crack the next hack open. If you are under age we will have to find something a bit more age appropriate as a prize. This contest will run for one week (May 17 – May 22, 2008) .

Hard Disk Drive Drum
Computer Hacks

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  Fibra from Belgrade has created an interesting drum system. It uses old hard drive read/write arms as drum hammers. The original hard drive voice coils are used to move the arms. The picture above is the new system which doesn’t seem to be documented yet, have a look at the video for a demonstration of the first version. If you need a larger hard drive project fix have a