Technabob » jacob’s ladder http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:00:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 3.5-Inch Floppy Disks Get New Life as Jacob’S Ladder Toy http://technabob.com/blog/2009/06/12/3-5-inch-floppy-disks-get-new-life-as-jacobs-ladder-toy/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/06/12/3-5-inch-floppy-disks-get-new-life-as-jacobs-ladder-toy/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:40:03 +0000 Technabob http://technabob.com/blog/?p=14798 Remember those wooden Jacob’s Ladder toys you played with when you were a kid? You know, the kind where you flip the top block over, and then all of the other clacky blocks flip over on themselves?  Here’s a clever modern take on the old wooden toy.

floppy disk jacobs ladder

Created by artist ZacharyBear, this Jacob’s Ladder is made from a bunch of old 3.5-inch floppy disks, woven together to create this perplexing, noisy plaything. Check out the video clip below to see this thing in action…

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You can grab a set of these over on ZacharyBear’s Etsy shop for just $15 bucks. What’s the last time you really needed that set of Aldus Pagemaker 6.0 installer floppies anyhow?

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