Geek Chic: Hard Drive Wind Chimes

by Hoopajoo

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Practical Recycling: Turning a couple dead hard disks into a beautiful, shiny wind chime. Save the environment, spare the landfills and find your Zen.

6 Comments

Legionnary 15 years ago

Great instructable. A word of warning to folks though... Hard drives are EXTREMELY refelective. I did this a while back and very quickly got complaints from neighbors, and my wife about the sun reflections these cause. Put this in a shaded area or you will never be able to look outside again.

Hoopajoo 15 years ago

Also good for keeping birds and other wildlife out of your garden.

obamafan 15 years ago

OMG! That sounded very nice at the end. Great job!

LinuxH4x0r 16 years ago

Very nice! good reuse of what would normally be considered junk

AndyGadget 16 years ago

Neat, but just a word of warning - Don't try this with 2.5" laptop drives as some of the platters are made of glass. I bent one of these once to see what sort of 'metal' they were made of and it shattered into a billion high velocity razor sharp shards. Live and learn . . .

Hoopajoo 16 years ago

Great point! I meant to mention that in the video, thank you for bringing it up!