What can be done with the old and spoilt hard-drives that keep piling up in trash cans and dump yards? Turn them into awesome artistic sculptures! It might sound strange, but that is exactly what a systems administrator, Miguel Rivera did. He gathered a stack of used drives, gutted them and turned them into bikes, cars and robots. Amazing, isn’t it? So, let’s see some of his creations.

Rivera’s first creation was a car sculpted out of a set of 33 standard 3.5-inch hard drives- each wheel taking up eight of them and the remaining forming the body. His second creation was a mini-car comprising 29 drives. The next one happened to be a “fat boy motorcycle” decorated with dog tags and having eight discs in the front wheel and 28 in the rear. According to him, this was a little tricky compared to his previous ones.

The most intricate and incredible among Rivera’s creations happens to be his masterpiece robot built out of 14 laptop hard drives and 18 additional discs from gutted hard drives and other spare parts. He also put in a cable management arm from a Dell 2950 into it to show off its interiors. Rivera calls this recycling skill of his a therapy for the five-day 12-hour shift work week of his.

Via Wired