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Hard Drive Wind Chimes  If you like to take things apart you will have lots of fun making one of these hard drive wind chimes. It won’t cost you a dime and looks quite nice. Talk about a conversation starter when people try to figure out what it was made from.
“The original idea of making a hard drive component wind chime came from the summer of 2004, when I was working as an intern in the Amherst College IT department. I had several broken hard drives to get rid of and my fellow intern Devindra yelled out the phrase “hard drive platter wind chimes!!!”, so I started Googling for how-tos on hard drive wind chimes. Sadly, while pictures of several exist there isn’t a real guide. I eventually took them apart and made a decent wind chime with the components in a Western Digital HD. However, since I made it using cheap pink thread (the only thread/rope I had access to) it fell apart in a few weeks. The keychain I made from it is still functioning very well though.”
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June 29th, 2009
here is the link http://www.debrace.com/home.php?cat=2
June 29th, 2009
Hi Stanley,
Thanks for the link, that is actually a very cheap price for the custom clock!
September 9th, 2009
http://www.lotusinvention.cn/ART/arm/RotatingColorWheel.htm
September 24th, 2009
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October 28th, 2009
Wow there are some really talented and creative people out there. Great inventions all done with hard drives.
November 27th, 2009
This is a nice proyect. Those magnets have two poles per side. So, it is necessary to cut them in 2 pieces with a stone cutting disk.
December 15th, 2009
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December 19th, 2009
Hey guys could any1 tell me more abt dis I damn wanna hack my hard disk but donno where to strt frm pls pls pls lemme know like steps for my Samsung HD!!!! pretty PSL!!!!! 😀
mail me d steps at saniks88@yahoo.com 😉
May 10th, 2010
Great ideas! I usually just smash them and pour water over them.
July 21st, 2010
Wow, pretty tech!
July 31st, 2010
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September 16th, 2010
this reminds me of that Radiohead contest where the first place dude used all old hardrives for the video. Geeh wish I could find it, you would all really appreciate it 🙂
June 13th, 2011
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October 26th, 2011
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June 20th, 2012
You can use the magnets from inside your HDD and a 75 cent reed switch to get that stepper motor spinning super fast.
Here’s the video tutorial: http://jaytube.org/share/PueF3b3XXBo
April 1st, 2013
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August 3rd, 2013
I go through a ton of hard drives. I’ve made a USS Enterprise, Motorcycle and various other stuff:
http://blog.jeffavery.com/?p=576
-Jeff
August 8th, 2013
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