Hard Drive Wind Chimes / Keychains

Stop! Don’t toss that old hard drive just yet. Don’t you realize that you could use that to make a ‘craptacular’ set of wind chimes? You better believe it! And with the help from this article provided by Wingie.org, you will be well on your way to annoying your neighbors in no time!

Welcome to everyone who found this site from the 2/23 BoingBoing link or the 2/25 Slashdot link! If you have any suggestions and feedback, feel free to e-mail me at wingie at gmail. Thanks! =) And while you’re at it, go visit the other parts of the site!

Read about my thought on surviving the Slashdot effect.

Also, I updated the page (encouraged by the hordes of people visiting) and there’s now a new wind chime at the bottom of this page. Go take a look!
Many people linking this page on their blogs claim that this is a secure way of destroying your hard drive and its sensitive data. It is not completely true! The platters are never used in this HOWTO and could potentially be stolen by ninjas while you’re making a wind chime and the data recovered by ninja-hackers. You must (at least) physically destroy the platters if you want to be 100% secure!