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meerkt wrote:Training ground for bad capacitor replacement on a multilayer board.
just brew it! wrote:Not particularly creative
meerkt wrote:just brew it! wrote:Not particularly creative
Okay. Not just capacitors, but add sockets for the capacitors.
(I did it once on a graphics card. It sure looked shoddy, but it seemed to work.)
meerkt wrote:Though that assumes the problem is capacitors, which nowadays is not a given.
just brew it! wrote:adding a bit of series resistance and inductance
Monitor power supplies!Now I've got a stash of spare capacitors with nothing to use them on...
meerkt wrote:just brew it! wrote:adding a bit of series resistance and inductance
If the graphics card doesn't mind, who am I to judge.
Aranarth wrote:You can turn it into a clock!
Just get a 3 hand modual from joanne fabrics, drill a hole, mount it on wall using a standoff hole...
What's that on the wall daddy?
That's my all digital/analogue clock!
Redocbew wrote:Fellow gerbils, lend me your brains. I'm the not-so-proud brand new owner of a dead ITX motherboard. The question is: what should I do with it? I was going to try to ebay it, but obviously that's out of the question. If it were bigger I might try to strip off all the components somehow and make another PCB clipboard like you used to be able to get from thinkgeek.
Got any ideas?
Blahpony wrote:I have a clock someone gave me like that. For the face it uses a Windows 95 CD.
Ki Haao wrote:Put it in fish tank for display. However, prudent to remove surface components that might hurt the fish.
derFunkenstein wrote:Blahpony wrote:I have a clock someone gave me like that. For the face it uses a Windows 95 CD.
I think those might have been at least somewhat mass-produced. My cousin has one that her husband got on eBay several years back.
Blahpony wrote:
He was the type of person that would buy a clock like that, though.
just brew it! wrote:Ki Haao wrote:Put it in fish tank for display. However, prudent to remove surface components that might hurt the fish.
I think there's too much risk of leaching harmful chemicals, unless you encapsulate the whole thing in something clear and waterproof (a.k.a. "conformal coating").
Waco wrote:I'm a little late the party but the wife and I agreed that dead / old hardware ends up on the office wall. Once you amass enough of it you end up with a pretty awesome tech-wall that tells a story of your hardware over time.
Waco wrote:I'm a little late the party but the wife and I agreed that dead / old hardware ends up on the office wall. Once you amass enough of it you end up with a pretty awesome tech-wall that tells a story of your hardware over time.
Trident Troll wrote:Dead boards make for excellent prop parts for retro sci-fi devices. If you have any amateur filmmaking friends, give it to them. Instant robot brain or plasma rifle control panel.