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Speaking of synths, watch take a hard drive apart to some sweet sounds after the break. How about making a microphone or speakers? Maybe an HDD MIDI controller or a synthesizer is more your speed. If simple chimes don’t really butter your muffin, there are all kinds of sonic projects for dead hard drives. Even if you just hang one platter off of a finger and tap it with a fingernail, it sounds really nice. Those platters also make excellent chimes. Many makers including will extract the shiny platters to use as bases for clock faces and engrave the numbers, etch them, or glue them on. You’ve no doubt seen clocks made from old hard drives that were kept mostly intact. As far as liberating the magnets goes, resorted to clamping his in a vise and using a hammer and chisel to pry it away from the actuator hardware. Or run the pickup into a small amplified speaker and wave it like a stethoscope near your electronics to hear them hum. Use them to build a pickup to amplify a cigar box guitar or thumb piano. Keep a couple on the bench to temporarily magnetize tools. Glue a couple of them to the back of an attractive piece of wood, mount it on the kitchen wall, and you have yourself a knife block. Those terrifically strong magnets are good for all kinds of projects. Once the case is open, you can find rare earth magnets, bearings, and one or more platters. Any self-respecting hacker probably has one or two of these already, but if you’re in the market, recommends a nice set that looks way better than ours. The case screws are frequently of the Torx variety. The hardest part is having the patience and the tools to get past all those screws that stand between you and the treasure inside.

Have any dead hard drives kicking around? Hackaday alum shows how easy it is to disassemble a hard drive to scavenge its goodies.