right on

kedwa30 I find solice in the fact free-thinking people like you exist, althought my local society has tried to hammer into every child's head that they need to hyper-overspecialize in one very narrow field, to be worthwhile. I call bullshit - The more you can do by yourself - the more free you actually are.

MrChaosBones So fucking true sir, I love people like this.

kedwa30 loogie boogie

MrChaosBones agreed. I read a book that changed my life about the "artisan mindset," basically a really great tradesman has not only a deep knowledge of their field, but picks up knowledge around it as well. a blacksmith will learn a bit about woodworking as they make handles for tools, a bit about fine metalwork as they make things with decorative aspects, a fair bit about chemistry as they learn to etch and plate and learning to plate metals these days you'll have to learn about high-voltage electronics too. Basically, being hyper-specialized limits how good you can ever be even at a specialized job. A superior craftsman, or technician, or engineer knows where they fit in the big picture. Even a waiter that knows about cooking and about restaurant management will be a superior waiter.

Huh? Where did you get up with that? How would throwing something away cause a 95% chance of discovering its use, and why should you throw it away if that's the case?? Edit: So which one is it? A sarcastic joke or something that is true? Are you gonna tell me it's both? You people are stupid.

@@malachite072 I think it’s a joke because that’s how it typically goes in life. You give something up just to discover you could’ve given it to someone or used it yourself somehow.

@@larryhull2752 Firstly, I will admit I didn't realize this could be a joke. But look, I love jokes. But making a joke out of confusing advice just seems like a horrible joke. Not only because personally, I don't see the humor but because it really doesn't reflect properly. Additional edit: I didn't get the joke at first but I would of been like "oh well" if I was told something like "it's just sarcasm", but instead you people are completely unreasonable thinking something is true because it's a joke. The joke is sarcastically reflective, not entirely reflective. The "point" of this "joke" is that you should throw things away to discover their use. The point is NOT entirely about how you might discover the use after that thing was thrown away. There is a difference. So to say I'm the one who missed the point is ironic. Calling me ironic is even further ironic. Irony at its finest.

@@malachite072 You have just the missed the point.☝️.Murfies law.🤣

@@nicolasmaximus2286 Just looked up Murphy's law, and realized I already know about this concept. That doesn't take away the fact that the joke doesn't reflect on the concept properly and that it isn't humorous (at least not in my opinion). Also, metaphysics have nothing to do with why you should do something.

Based, and Raskolnikov-pilled tovarishch

You're living the dream m8

I've been recycling TV's for the past four years. Actually learned how to repair some.

Hey that is what I just did this week,the web cam to microscope

It works pretty good but at the end of the range it's not real clear.

I tell my children, and they have witnessed it themselves in their time, in the world of computers a lot of early stuff was outdated quickly and you could get old computers from yard sales or people just gave them to you. They weren't that usable compared to the other advanced stuff. After a time the old used stuff was advanced enough itself to were it WAS quite usable . Especially in bridging the gaps in technology. I have an old Sager laptop someone GAVE to us from 2000 and it has an old floppy disc player as well as XP operating system which makes it able to play old floppy disks I have and convert to USB devices. I had a floppy disk camera in early 2000 and it helps me convert all my pictures. You might not be able to take these old computers online very well but even a 20 year old one has a ton of storage and USB which is still used.

I cannot agree more!

I wanted to use an old android device as a pure hardware that I can install a tiny OS on and run some fun graphics on it. Dived deep into how to do it. It turns out these devices actively prevent you from doing that. They are completely closed off except for very few releases where the manufacturer kept certain bits on/off appropraitely inside the ROM so users can load any arbitrary OS on it.

@@sayamqazi you should be able to get around that by rooting and unlocking the room loader. I used to do that with my phone when I was bored. But you're right, without the root, you're very limited

@@Handlebarrz I know that but some phones are impossible to root. When you are able to root a phone has a prerequisite which if the manufacturer wants they can lock you out of rooting. Then you need to find if people have found an exploit for their prevention. This is why every version of iPhone has different method of jailbreaking. Note I may have conflated the terms "unlocking the bootloader" and actually "rooting" the phone that caused the confusion.

@@sayamqazi we're both right. As long as you can find the root exploit, possibilities are endless. Being it harder to do so with flagships or security savy hardware manufacturers

I saw some videos here on UKposts on using the dvd drive sliding mechanism to make a mini drill press.

+1

Johney Five yeah i totaly agree

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Riiiight? I'll post a link today, someone has carved out this niche, surely....

Yes please!

Yes.. but the opposite person ends up with a garage that can’t be opened or walked through or even gone into.. lol.. like mine

But everyone I’ve thrown something out I’ve regretted it later… like the 3 ps3 I had in my garage that just needed the disk drive fixed.. still have a ps2 in perfect condition though lol and a ps4 thats kicking my butt.. but I’m a stay at home mom that likes to tinker.. A LOT.. lol my kids love it.. and have way too much faith in their mom being able to fix things 😂😅

Being someone older from the age of black and white television - hardly anybody you knew had color yet - that used to play with junk black and white TV it was the hardest thing around 10 years ago to see an endless amount of perfectly good color tvs being thrown out. Now we watch LCD TV which have the worst picture. We advanced from black and white to color ( which were great when brand new but wore out fast) to better longer lasting color sets to color cathode ray tubes with pictures like photographs to really crappy low- resolution pictures on LCD screens and digital broadcast and people say " oh its so much better "

@@EriBarr I used to be like that, then I lost my house and had to get rid of 95% of my junk. I still have too much and need to get rid of more.

Yes. It blows my mind. I recently pulled a perfectly fine dell xperion laptop mnfg in 2018 out of a dumpster and luckily I had a hp charger at home with the exact output requirements to turn it in. It was password protected and I was tempted to take it apart for the scrap metal but I decided to look up how to bypass windows password and luckily I found my answer in 5 minutes on UKposts.(f8/f11 command worked) It took 12 hours to clear it out and reinstall windows 10. I have so many things that he pulled out of a dumpster that should have never been thrown away and worked perfectly fine. People turtles them away because they simply didn’t want to clean it or empty its contents or buy a new belt or simple replace a frayed cord. I have found many vacuums, toasters, tons of lamps(almost all still had working bulbs still in them!! Wtf!!), 2 scales, work lights, tools, batteries, 2 laptops, extension cords, smartphones & tablets(I use them with wifi or alphred camera), storage containers, espresso machines, air fryers, fans, TVs(I take the LED strips, plexiglass, and circuit boards out), a working record player, JVC receiver, slide projectors(I take the lenses out)…. And enough food to last 10’lifetimes. Any stuff that I can’t fix or don’t care to fix, I’ll save the motors, wiring, gears & shafts, switches, sensors, etc and save them for when I might need them.

Wow

+paddym27 for example i remember spending one hour in high school being taught how to wire a (uk) plug. For the last 20 mins of the lesson we were all told to wire one and bring it up to the teacher for inspection. I did mine, and was told by the teacher it was downright dangerous. But the killer was... that was it. No follow up, nothing. This is a key life skill!

+paddym27 i still dont know how to wire a plug.

@@paddym27 WHY?

That's another good reason to try and make things out of old junk... it doesn't hurt so much when you brake it irreparably.... and you will! There's no escaping it.

What's a "weeb"?

@@edgeeffect Someone obsessed with anime, often as an escape from real life/society.

I made my first AND gate today!!!!!! WEeeEEEee.

i did the same. i'm using an old laptop for the commenting!

+Troy Nall I like that Idea, you can also put an infinite loop saying "Hello World" in front of every kill command. This way it will just gonna run up to you and say Hello world a gazillion times until it run out of battery.

but what about enhancing more modern systems why cant I double the performance of my galaxy s3 when I have a near identical board....

its called bottle necking. no matter how fast the processor is, the data bus is limited to how many bits it can squeeze through the different areas of hardware. this is a very simplified answer. ive seen identical model phones made by haewuii but one was a mark 1. and the other a mark 1s. both had full size sim card slots. but upon tear down of both devices the 1s could indeed had a sim, but the 1 could not. all the mark 1 was missing was 5 micro wires connecting the sim slots leads to the board. so the performace here that the maker charged 150 dollars more 5 micro wires. the mark 1 was wifi only device. the mark 1s was both wifi and 3G. so sometimes performance can be affected but after only careful examination.

+Troy Nall I think the price difference is due to the lack of certification-, testing- and approval processes that are mandatory for the GSM module. for example I have a Xiaomi phone which supports LTE band 20 (mostly used in Europe), but as Xiaomi still declares itself as a chinese manufacturer they don't feel the need to officially support anything outside of China, so it's disabled in the nvram settings (which have been already unlocked by using custom a kernel to circumvent the Qualcomm check, etc.) but my point is that this way they also save money (hence the pretty good prices), they simply do not have to seek the approval of the relevant authorities which requires rigorous testing --> costs a lot of time and money, which then would show in the retail price of the device, like in your case. but i have to add this is just my understanding, i could also be totally wrong :D

troy could you help me I have horrible neighbours that listen and record everything I mean everything could you make me somthing to stop them please I'm dissabled and I cannot afford a lot but if you trust me I can pay somthing

There is a thrift store near me where I can get a lot of old keyboards. I'm new to this. I might pick up a few just to use the cords and connectors in my projects, but after watching this, now I'm curious if I can use the electronics inside to do something other than be a keyboard.

It seems like software user agreements shouldn't force customers to take all the risk when it's their product. Also, it is admirable what you were able to learn at an early age, but people need to be made aware that many others are killed each year by TV and Microwave capacitors.

Fck the law, do what you want. You can buy rooted old phones online. Do it. My phone is from 2017 and just keep rebuying the same one

Ok have you learned electronics now? If not there's a few ressources i can give you to further your understanding, of varying complexity, from stuff for beginners that don't understand what they are doing to diy channels of super skilled dudes that build insane stuff from scratch, or theoretical lectures/ explanations. You know, i did 3 years of electrical engineering before switching to fundamental physics, and -mostly dur to the way the french system is set up, with 2 insane years with overkill levels of work and therory (basically 2x 2h/ day of lectures, physics and math, + 2h each again of problem solving, and after that 8h day you are expected to work another 3-4h to just digest the 10 pages of function series theoremes you've barely had time to write, all that to get a 7-8/20 on a test if you're lucky. The average was like 4-5, above ten you're a god even tho its the lower bar of admission in the public school system, and getting at 12 and above thats so hard to pull off teacher will start to find if you've cheated. Anyway i went though 3 years lf pure math and physics hell (did the 2nd one twice, and somehow managed to keep my passion for science even as they did their best to make it seem line a bunch of boring equations After that i could solve any question or problem for any electromagnetic field (referring to electricity in general, circuits are just a part of that), but in practoce i was clueless I d just never associated the hands ln with the theory and when i started experimenting with electricity i'd already forgoten most of the specific formulas but it all started to make sense to me, and i found myself re discovering concepts i thought i understood but didn't, very satisfying. Point is you don't need to go the hard way like that. You can find ressources on the net, hell of this very platform thqt will give you a masters level education if you really invest the time and effort.. In my case, i learned all my quantum mechanics for example on UKposts, built all my knowledge there. There a small channel in french from an astrophysicist teaching close by that uploads ALL of his lessons so you have bachlot/master level full length 15-25 2h lectures and nearly twice that in exercises. I just found thos dude to be far more interesting and better then my teacher, if you can learn university level QM on yt you can become a self made electrical engineer ;)

maybe dont do meth.....

@@imagitu6409 i mean to be honest he could be doing way worse things on meth, compared to playing with electronics.

@@kushsmoka give him some time... he will be

Or hide the key part Id's so you don't know what it is.

@@alantripp6175 fast forward 7 years later becoming a full-time electronic/software engineer I can fully understand the rationale behind that. Protecting IPs. Some Chinese guys really enjoy reverse engineering and counterfeiting products. Whatever you can do to prevent them or even slow them down will be in the benefit of the actual company that develops. The downside of that is that us, free time tinkerers can't do anything about it and we are left with a consumer-driven economy with no reusability in sight.

The bottle movement is a Body language and psychology thing 😉

😂😂 this should be top comment how is does this only have 8 likes

That's his comfort body.☝️🤣

It's a bit like his lecture, he suggested repurposing items (picking up the bottle), but never gave any specific examples that the average person could attempt (not drinking it). It's all very well for intelligent people to suggest things, but it's a completely useless exercise, unless you also show us how to do it. Most of us don't have the tools, the brains, OR the time to accomplish the stuff suggested on here. Give us useful, practical examples, and we'll follow your example.

It'd be awesome you uploaded it!

I feel ya, always low key wishing I did engineering or computer science degree instead of the degree I did (biological science). I think we are too young to know what we really want to do when we have to choose our subjects etc… So much money in computer tech careers too, and all so interesting!

... and The Miss Fisher Mysteries.

Definitley C++ used in arduino and industries

C is very heavily used in industry. Arduino uses a sort-of cut-down version of C++ but "real life" C++ is simply too complex for mortals to understand.

The best way to learn electronics is to try stuff and make mistakes. I started with books by the likes of R. A. Penfold and Forest M. Mimms III, and they taught me how to make simplistic things. Once you've got some basic knowledge from this sort of things - think of your own projects and google your knowledge up... you'll find a lot of grabage online but there is good stuff to find. Try things out, get them wrong, get them wrong again. Something starts working eventually. Find old junk on street corners and rubbish dumps, take them apart carefully, you will slowly learn how they work and you'll amass a huge collection of recycled components.

Documentation and forums Figure things out one by one

How?

I think that's too complex to reuse. You can't spend a year reverse engineering every product...

@@alexc4924 FPGAs to reprogram not to reverse engineer.. like eeproms , harder to do but with processing capability.

@@petevenuti7355 I suppose you could also desolder the FPGA but the problem is that every kind of product is going to have a different kind of FPGA and you don't really know what you're getting

@@petevenuti7355 also FPGAs are all BGA chips so are you gonna get custom circuit boards and reballing stencils?

@@alexc4924 well having some idea what's in things is why I'm asking, desoldering I believe would be the easy part, and I know a guy with a laser cutting machine so I could make the stencils for a few bucks (I used to have strips cut of that thin stainless cut to put in painted sash windows to stop them from getting stuck in humidity) I'm not sure about getting accurate measurements or g-code for that stencil though...😒 That would have been my next question. Those Chinese board manufacturers could probably knock something out for $2. I have most of the parts materials and time otherwise. So $5 to reuse a FPGA chip sounds good so far. I think the biggest challenge but fun project would be making the programer, that would be new to me and not sure what that would cost... No way I could afford any of those development kits though.

It depends on what those sockets are. Maybe but also quite likely not