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Posted on: January 5, 2010 11:23 AM, by Jessica Palmer
Miguel Rivera, a systems administrator at a U.S. Air Force base in Southwest Asia, builds robots and vehicles from the base's trashed hard drives:
"The overall concept was to make something out of just hard drive parts and pieces," says Rivera. "I wanted it to look solid and heavy so I leaned towards just using metal -- no plastic or gluing things together."
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Comments
Way cool!
I remember seeing garden art with the flowers entirely made using discarded plastic bottles. Can't remember where. Was that also on your blog?
Posted by: arvind | January 5, 2010 3:33 PM
Found it!
http://hoardedordinaries.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/one-students-trash/
Posted by: arvind | January 5, 2010 3:40 PM
nice find, arvind!
Posted by: Jessica Palmer
| January 5, 2010 7:40 PM
Wow ... they kind of look like real-life transformers. I'm now squinting at the motorbike trying to work out how it was put together.
Posted by: lab Rat | January 7, 2010 6:13 AM
Looks like we now know where those classified military hard drives that turned up missing went. ;)
Posted by: Thomas Joseph | January 7, 2010 5:17 PM