Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
Tired of an old, clunky printer destroying more paper than it prints? Instructables user laxap helps along a printer aspiring to be a shredder by gutting it and installing an actual shredder. Almost as fun as smashing the thing to bits, like in Office Space.
8 thoughts on “April Fools’ Day preview: A printer that shreds”
Spadessays:
OK, it’s a make. But neither a special nor a clever one.
Just putting a machine in another’s casing seems arbitrary since there is nothing left of the original functionality. He just could’ve used a TV set or a fridge, that would’ve made as much sense.
And the thing wouldn’t make an april fool’s prank either since you can’t hook the thing to a computer.
Byron Winchellsays:
Yeah, should look like a scanner or a fax . . . .
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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
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OK, it’s a make. But neither a special nor a clever one.
Just putting a machine in another’s casing seems arbitrary since there is nothing left of the original functionality. He just could’ve used a TV set or a fridge, that would’ve made as much sense.
And the thing wouldn’t make an april fool’s prank either since you can’t hook the thing to a computer.
Yeah, should look like a scanner or a fax . . . .
[…] Convert a Printer Into a Shredder […]
[…] Convert a Printer Into a Shredder […]