Convert a PC Drive Bay to a Docking Station

Anonymous Coward writes "The Screen Savers are featuring a case mod worth looking at. This article describes how to create a docking station for your PDA out of a PC drive bay. The instructions are little hard to follow but looks feasible and the finished product is pretty slick."

Other suggestions for conversion

[Taco Cowboy]

1. The conversion of mouse to paperweight.

2. The conversion of old computer to doorstop.

3. The conversion of mousepad to non-skid, multipurpose pad on top of dashboard.

Anymore suggestions ?

Re:"Docking"

[Anonymous Coward]

i believe you are thinking of http://www.fufme.com

A solution to what problem?

[ascii]

"An external docking cradle for your PDA is good for portability, but it's a waste of valuable desk space. "

If a PDA dock roughly the size of a 3.5" disk counts as valuable deskspace that you'd go through the troubles of building the Quasimodo of all mods wouldn't a more obvious solution to the problem be to have gotten a bigger desk in the first place? Ofcourse you may have a hard time finding a desk at $30 but none the less - my Visor dock tugs neatly away underneath my monitor stand.

Pardon me, but this sounds more like a geeky excuse to get to mod things than the solution to any problem you may think of. Which ofcourse is fair enough; modding can be a fun activity.

The next thing: modding filecabinets to fit employee's (horisontally) because employee's are simply a waste of good valuable space.

Sorry for being lame.

Re:Other suggestions for conversion

[sharkey]

2. The conversion of old computer to doorstop

This one's easy:

1. Set BIOS to boot from CD.
2. Open CD-ROM.
3. Insert Windows XP CD.
4. Boot PC and follow on-screen instructions.

Great idea!

[Jethro]

I've been waiting for my Palm IIIc to die for AGES so I could upgrade to a Clie, but the damn thing's rock solid, even though I overclocked it to 40MHz! I figure if I overclock it, stick it in a really hot PC case right between two 7200RPM drives (docked so it doesn't turn off) and then do a find / -print, that might do it!