DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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Yeah, that's itWith home projects you can cut corners and get things working 80-90% and it's ok. If something breaks you can fix it. You try doing this for someone with low tech ability, they will be haranguing you every other day.
And the more expensive it is, the greater the expectation that it will work 100% all the time and nothing will go wrong.
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sun 23 Aug 2009, 2:44,
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^^^Spot on. For instance, I know the door opener from the touchscreen works 80-90% of the time. I know that the TV works around 95% of the time, and I know how to fix it when it goes wrong.
I probably could make all this work 99.9% of the time, but not all the time I'm tinkering with it - it's to be expected. Sometimes when I have an idea, it means changing some of the stuff that works...and that means that the stuff that works, will invariably end up NOT working until I bodge it through.
It would take a hell of a lot of work and dosh to make something like this commercially viable, but then I suppose that's what that Dragon's Den is all about.
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