Modding A Paper Shredder

detaks writes "The university of alberta's undergraduate computing science student group modded the office shredder, with duct tape, 110volt case fans, and a athlon fan, to increase the speed of the paper shredder from 12 to 37 pages shredded before overheating. You can also read it in the google cache"

Comments

correct link

[rehannan]

http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/shredder. html

The Water Bottle

[Alien54]

They also modded a Water Bottle:

http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/bottle.ht ml

What are they putting in the food up there?

Re:Fans

[rehannan]

If you you're refering to the "modded the office shredder" link, the url is incorrect. It's pretty hard to /. a server that doesn't exist. Remove the "www." bit.

UACS up to it's old tricks.

[Black Copter Control]

it's good to see that UACS is up to it's old tricks. Back in my day, we were (among other things) known for our parties, where the beer was only '$.50'/glass. This was supposedly an attempt to burn off the extra money that we got by reselling computer accounts (back in the late '70s early 80's) (we were non profit, so we had to do something creative with the profit). It never really worked that well, so we ended up paying $5000 for a couple of intelligent terminals for the club office.

That they're down to buying cheap paper shredders leaves me worrying that the society is now in dire financial straights -- and they're probably selling beer for $2.00/glass now.

And the proper link is http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/shredder. html (note the lack of a leading 'www').