Constructable CD Sculpture

At the invitation of Prof. Susan Gerofsky, I visited The University of British Columbia (UBC) as artist-in-residence for a week during January 2007. The agreed-upon project was for me to develop a mathematical sculpture that can be replicated in classrooms. I worked with Susan, student teachers in UBC's education program, and visiting students from Vancouver-area schools to test the ideas and write up a lesson plan. In addition I left one example on display, as a reference model Detail...

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CD Lamp

From: gizmodo.com Soure: Jim Watters
At a previous job, the head of QA had several stacks of several hundred CDs, on the floor, in front of floor to ceiling windows. The sunlight shining through the window would glow through these CDs in a very appealing manner that made the green light seem warm. From that point forward I always thought that a stack of CDs with a tubular light inside would make a very cool lamp. Detail...

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CD Sculpture

From George Radebaugh CD Sculpture
George Radebaugh creates art by joining together recycled materials: hundreds of discarded CDs, pipes, and other miscellaneous stuff. His artwork is simply wonderful. He uses materials in ways that are innovative and unusual, and the results are fun and fascinating to see Detail..

DIY USB 5.25″ front panel

From Silent Q Blog
She wanted to reuse her old chassis, rather than buy a new one. It was a “legacy” chassis, one which doesn’t have any external expansion ports accessible from the front. If you look at some of the new cases available, they have all sorts of front-accessible ports. At this point, she had already spent a small fortune on the required components, why drop another Bennie (or more) on something that will add no performance, and little to no functionality?
In any event, the new motherboard has 10 USB ports - four directly on back panel of the motherboard, and six are just supplied as headers on the board. The manufacturer gave us one 2-port real panel connector, but she still wanted to utilize the extra USB ports, without using a hub. Her MP3 player, PDA, cameras, and a bunch of other stuff are all USB devices, and it would be really nice to have easy access to the cables. Detail...

CDROM to Building a USB Fan

DIY: Building a USB Fancool USB Fan, so you can get cool all the summer while in front of your computer.
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Wind turbine from Harddisk

By Brian S. Julin Link...
Another fantastically easy wind turbine, made with a hard-drive motor with the right type of pressure plate and some identical paper clips about as long as the drive radius. Again, there is really nothing to explain that the pictures don't easily convey, except I had to be careful not to strip the tiny soft-metal plate nuts. The resulting product is actually very well balanced when spinning.
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