flying cable monster
If you have owned a computer for more than 20 minutes you end up with a pile of cables that looks roughly like this:
I call it geek spaghetti. I keep mine in 2 storage boxes, the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet and a big Tesco bag for life. The ‘best stuff’ is in the Tesco bag. For ‘best stuff’ read ‘newest stuff I don’t actually need yet‘. I need a nicer way to organise these or I’ll have to move them out to the garage.
Introducing the flying cable monster - part flying spaghetti monster, part habitat cable tie light shade.
Option one was to simply tie things to each other. But that might damage the cables and make them difficult to get at. I need a system which allows any single cable to be removed without need to disrupt the rest. So… find something that can just have cables hooked into it. Rummage in garage, bingo! An old dish rack we never used - steal the floppy shelf, tie some speaker cable to the corners. We have a dangley rack.
Just poke the USB style connector ends through , rotate by 90 degrees, bingo - they hold. Doesn’t work for fat, thin or round connectors. Time for some pliers to squeeze some of the rails together to create fat and thin bits. That works.
Hardly a thing of beauty, but a whole bag of jumbled leads - 37 in total so far - turns into a neat spaghetti monster with stacks of space to spare. I probably have 5 - 6 times that much to go, hopefully it’ll all fit.
IMPROVEMENTS
Some kind of bungee web sphere, where you pop the end through between a web of elastic would be more elegant, and likely hold the cables more securely.
Dangley LED lights, to complete the chandelier effect. This could become a genuine light source for your games room, geek room, that kind of thing.
Dangley bungee grips - like hand loops on the tube - to hook bigger cables into. Perfect for scsi / parallel cables. Why I have so many scsi cables, when I only have one scsi device left I don’t know!
wall mounted cushion - like the bungee sphere, but hangs on the wall so it doesn’t clatter your head when you stand up forgetting that its there.
Rainy Sundays huh - gotta love ‘em! Pics on flickr here.
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Awesome idea, I like the idea to attach LED’s to “complete the chandelier look”! I really like the site, good work!