1. this hack is chock full of win

Posted at 1:14AM on Sep 16th 2007 by monster

2. That's the 2nd coolest HDD clock I've seen... the first coolest being this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJlcRKu2mtQ

Posted at 1:45AM on Sep 16th 2007 by twistedsymphony

3. IMO, this is better.

Posted at 2:11AM on Sep 16th 2007 by ex-parrot

4. the only thing that would make this better would be to implement maxtor's musical drive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7PCalQSxI
as an alarm

Posted at 3:03AM on Sep 16th 2007 by Uberwon

5. Nice! I like that lighted clock as well. Does anyone know of a different guide that has steps, instead of just a general 'this is how it works' kind of thing? My German is a bit rusty and doesn't include all the technical language (though it is possible to figure it out).
Also there is a typo in the entry =P

"Nope, just parts of a HD into a clock, but the actual drive mechanism and heads are used for this one."

Just add a not in front of just.

Posted at 4:00AM on Sep 16th 2007 by Josh

6. Just to put a timestamp on this: This has been one result of a competition by German tech news magazine "c't" which has taken place between November 2004 and February 2005.

Posted at 9:03AM on Sep 16th 2007 by drmr

7. That one from the same contest is also neat:

http://www.heise.de/ct/machflott/projekte/55876

Posted at 9:11AM on Sep 16th 2007 by hannes

8. now _that's_ a clock you can set your watch to!

I'll set my watch and warrant on it.

Posted at 12:19PM on Sep 16th 2007 by strider_mt2k

9. That's a nice use of a huge old hard drive.

Posted at 12:22PM on Sep 16th 2007 by BigD145

10. far and away the best hard drive clock i've ever seen. nice work

Posted at 12:42PM on Sep 16th 2007 by tiuk

11. great :) i've planned to do something like this for a while

Posted at 12:56PM on Sep 16th 2007 by kiwisaft

12. Anyone able to get this into english? I'd live to do this hack, but cant understand the language, and translation isnt helping...

Posted at 3:51PM on Sep 16th 2007 by Steve

13. does that arm move laterally? cus ive never seen that before. any drive you open up today the arm moves on an axis in a pie like shape.

it looks like it moves laterally considering he has like a number line on the disc to indicate minuet. Theres probably only a select few number of hard drives out there like this.

Posted at 5:38PM on Sep 16th 2007 by chupa

14. My father has been doing things like this to old 8mb hard drives for years now. Nothing new, but it's good to see old technology being recycled. :)

Posted at 6:40PM on Sep 16th 2007 by Cyclohexane

15. BabbleFish is being difficult. Does anyone have a full English translation of the site? Better yet. Anyone have a link for the schematic needed to build this toy?

Posted at 9:59PM on Sep 16th 2007 by Exodus

16. HI
very nice
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Posted at 11:25PM on Sep 16th 2007 by Tr3Mbl3r

17. The only thing cooler would be to spin up the drive to speed and then strobe the disk to indicate the time, with the strobe progressively lagging the flash to advance the markings on the disk.

Posted at 11:25PM on Sep 16th 2007 by monopole

18. @chupa - you could move both the drive and the arm.. thus allowing it to follow the lines he's drawn. =)

@monopole - that would be cool.. using a hole in the arm to silhouette the indicated time.. that'd be nice too!

Posted at 2:13AM on Sep 17th 2007 by digital.wraith

19. the picture shows the time at about 3:10 with the arm being flush with the line so im making an educated guess that the arm moves laterally. your right you could do it with a pie one but it woldent look as good imo.

Posted at 3:48AM on Sep 17th 2007 by chupa

20. Google hacking: type: filetype:log "password.log" this code shows passwords

Posted at 8:52AM on Sep 17th 2007 by \\hite Hacker