Project: Hard Drive PC

[Airbozo]

And, go figure, I got stabbed with my own drill.

Seems every project I do, I contribute a little blood...

Kind of makes it whole.

[silverdemon]

offcourse:

no mod,
without blood

:p

[Cool1Net6]

dude nice... good idea i want to take the cover off my HDD and plexi it now!

Eek. Not a good idea, unless you have an Intel clean room. Opened drives usually dont last very long.

-Cool-

[TheGreatSatan]

I finished framing up the top, sides, and front (for the most part)

Then I cut the frame of the original case to have the PSU and CD drive mountings.

Obviously, I'll have to add the PSU before screwing it in.

[crenn]

Any plans of making the heads move?

[TheGreatSatan]

No.

[Airbozo]

Very nice work. I was not sure where you were going with this, but it is turning out NICE!

You got me thinking about the drives spinning and now I want to create some "art" with dead drives and actually have them spinning and moving. I wonder if it is possible to have the heads move to music, like a color organ...

Very nice progress!

[TheGreatSatan]

If they can make lights move to music, I don't see why anything that runs on electricity can't do the same.

[bouncybrain]

This is soooo cool

[DaveW]

I wonder if it is possible to have the heads move to music, like a color organ...

It's possible to make this work, i've seen a guy use a dead drive as a poor quality speaker. The arms moves fast enough to imitate the skin of a speaker very poorly.

It's coming along well, but i have to ask: is all that dust inside the case or only on the outside?

It's a shame you couldn't get them all spinning or doing something, but realistically, the power requirements would have been too high anyway.

-Dave