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So i have a an old 160 GB Seagate HDD That i am turning into a coaster
Here are the preliminary pics

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Painting the coils now
gonna be copper colored

Update! (Two hours later)
So the coils are more gold than copper but it will work.
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This is the new top, didn’t like the sticker.

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Has plastic wrap on it to prevent water damage. (Cosmetically; this HDD is toast.)
Going to let paint dry, then glue it together.

Update 2!
So i ditched the coils. paint looked tacky.
Finished product:

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I’ve been using the disks from a old HDD as a coaster for some time now. The problem is the hole in the middle but usually forgot about it now days

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Im using the entire HDD

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I remember a while ago, I bought a pack of 25 Floppies and I used them as coasters. They’re just about the right size and I had them in a plethora of colours.

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lol. bout all they’re good for.

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You just made me think about gutting an old HDD and sticking a Raspberry Pi in there.

That could be a pretty fun project.

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lol. so what do you think about my coaster.

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Good use for an old hard drive. Although my hard drive coaster is just a WD Black I took out because it was throwing errors.

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I couldn’t just do a coaster after i realized i had an unused cpu fan.