Hard drives, figs, birds and a scarecrow

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The problem:

Birds are eating figs in my backyard as soon as they’re ripe. Figs. Ripe figs. Not birds.

I’d prefer to eat them unharmed. Figs. Not birds.

The solution:

There’s an IT solution to every problem. Even more, every problem can be solved with a bit of hardware. Or throwing more storage into it. Believe me. More storage is good.

Hard disk: a nice, green 2TB Western Digital hard drive can surely be used to scare away the birds.

Some T8 torx screws are on the way. Let’s remove them.

Let’s see what’s in it. Shiny plates!

A T6 torx and a ring that holds plates comes off.

See? A beautiful, shiny, round plate. Three of them.

And magnets! Very strong permanent magnets! I already know what to do with them.

… and tiny tiny heads. Will have to make up what to do with them. A scratcher? Camping fork? Some kind of a weapon or a garden tool? We’ll see.

Everything nicely dismantled:

… and the plates hanged on the fig tree. See closely, they’re like black holes, bending the light:

Don’t see it in the picture? See the video, if your eyes react to movements better than to static images:

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