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We can rebuild them

We have the technology. umm. yeah. Don’t throw away your old and busted hardware.

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Porcupine / Chia Pet Mouse thingy

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Sources: Nihat Ustundag, techeblog.com, yatanonga.com, ohgizmo

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15 Comments

  1. stefan says:
    June 6, 2006 at 11:03 am

    always surprising these humans:D

  2. Art created from Busted Hardware at Gargles says:
    June 6, 2006 at 11:04 am

    [...] Old and busted keyboards, mice and monitors are given a new life as art work (and hamster cages)read more | digg story [...]

  3. solin says:
    June 6, 2006 at 11:10 am

    I want the mouse plant! hehehe

  4. Mark says:
    June 6, 2006 at 8:15 pm

    That is really cool!

  5. Nessa says:
    June 7, 2006 at 7:01 am

    oh my god that is so cool!!!!

  6. Erin says:
    June 7, 2006 at 5:13 pm

    I like the moniter guinea pig cage. I wonder if it takes an incredible amount of work or knowledge?

  7. khurrum1 says:
    June 7, 2006 at 6:50 pm

    Thanks for the comments.

    Erin > Actually it does take some amount of knowledge because monitors are dangerous and can hold charge for a very long time even if the power is unpluggged. This can be dangerous and people could get shocked or hurt badly.

    There is a tutorial for that at:
    http://doodlepost.com/archives/035855.html

    It shows how to change a monitor to a trash can. It is still very dangerous so be careful :)

  8. danihel says:
    June 8, 2006 at 2:25 am

    I really like keyboard plant! Is there a tutorial anywhere about that? thanks!

  9. mike says:
    June 8, 2006 at 4:39 pm

    its just the squishy things under the keys glued in a ball with the cord as the steam and the base are inverted keys

  10. Alicia says:
    June 9, 2006 at 8:49 pm

    The one with the cigaretts is disgusting. The rest are wonderful.

  11. noushad says:
    June 10, 2006 at 12:59 pm

    its very very funnyyyyy aaa hhaaaaaaaaa

  12. Jaz says:
    June 12, 2006 at 7:22 pm

    Kick ass!

    I have a zoo full of spare parts in my garage, office, lounge room, kitchen… Well every damn room is full of old parts.

    I might experiment a little myself.

    Monitor gold fish bowl anyone?

  13. Ubergeek says:
    November 22, 2006 at 2:41 am

    I LOVE the PC BBQ grill/firepit!! There are some SERIOUS case-mods there just WAITING to happen!

    Suh-Weet!

  14. Jenna says:
    December 21, 2006 at 8:09 am

    Monitors aren’t too dangerous, just leave it unplugged for a day or two and be careful of capacitors (look on google for some pics of what they can look like), if you find any big ones, you can use a piece of metal which has a well insulated part for you to hold, like a screw driver with a plastic handle, and touch the two terminals together on it, and that should discharge it.

    Pulling the innards out should be relatively safe anyway though, there should just be a few screws attaching the crt tube to the front half of the monitor case to unscrew, which aren’t close to where capacitors should be. There may be some other little parts to unscrew two like panels of buttons/knobs, or built in microphones/speakers.

  15. matt says:
    October 28, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    This what you do for fun when you’re poor.

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