using just a cd case, you can make a clear hard drive, well, actually it's a window to see in to a hard drive. the cool thing about this is--if you have a case mod that lets you see in to the pc, you can do this hack up, light it up and get a cool view of the hard drive heads writing.
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21. I did this many many years ago, although I found some plastic that was about the right shape and taped it to the drive, from memory it was a 200meg drive. I did the "mod" to show kids how hard drives worked, did something similar with a inkjet printer, removed the outer case ( and other bits ) and replaced with clear plastic or open air.. Was hoping to do the same with other gear as some kids were very interested to see how things work but after a few years the "pokemon" generation didn't seem to give a..... So my "inside computer" project got shelved...
Posted at 9:54PM on Oct 14th 2007 by bezel6