Hackaday Links: Sunday, April 28th, 2013

Another week has gone by and we hope you've been happily hacking away in your underground lairs. If not, here's some inspiration that didn't quite make it to the front page this week: [Razr] used a CFL ballast to replace the mechanical one in his fluorescent tube light fixture. To make the drawers of his workbench more awesome [Rhys] used the faceplates from some servers. This week saw … [Read more...]

Destroying optical media

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We got a tip about a USB CD destroyer. We found its methods amusing as it just scratches the CD as seen above on the left. If you really have data security issues, perhaps something more than scratched plastic should be used. There are a lot of paper shredders that can also shred CDs, what about taking that shredder with the burnt out motor and turning it into a hand-cranked shredder that doubles … [Read more...]