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Workshop proposal: Hack your Hardware [[User:Jtfoote|Jtfoote]] 14:11, 7 November 2008 (PST)
Workshop proposal: '''Hack your Hardware''' [[User:Jtfoote|Jtfoote]] 14:11, 7 November 2008 (PST)


"No user-serviceable parts inside" -- we call bullshit on that!
"No user-serviceable parts inside" -- we call bullshit on that!


Favorite gadget busted? Don't throw it away; fix it! (Or at least autopsy it for the good of science!) Bring in your hardware yearning to reach its maximum potential (or give its life for spare parts). 90% of electronics failures are caused by bad connections or simple mechanical problems: we'll show you what to look for and how to fix them. We give you permission to take things apart, see what's inside, and improve them.
Bring in your hardware yearning to reach its maximum potential (or give its life for spare parts). We give you permission to take things apart, see what's inside, and improve them. Most electronics failures are caused by bad connections or simple mechanical problems: we'll show you what to look for and how to fix them. Favorite gadget busted? Don't throw it away; fix it! (Or at least autopsy it for the good of science!)


Possible projects:
Possible projects:
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* Add an extra iPod input jack to your clock radio or computer speakers
* Add an extra iPod input jack to your clock radio or computer speakers
* Add a USB hub to a desk lamp (or a bobblehead doll, or a stuffed toy, or...)
* Add a USB hub to a desk lamp (or a bobblehead doll, or a stuffed toy, or...)
* Hotrod your IR remote control to go around corners
* Hotrod your IR remote control to extend the range
* Extract the stepper motors out of a printer found on the sidewalk
* Extract DC motors and other good stuff from that CD player found on the sidewalk
* Fix that funky power jack on your old laptop so you can give it to Mom
* Fix that funky power jack on your old laptop so you can give it to Mom
* Add another headphone jack (or FM transmitter?) to your laptop
* Add another headphone jack (or FM transmitter?) to your laptop
* Add a LED backlight or tasklight to a keyboard or a handheld game platform
* Add a LED backlight or tasklight to a keyboard or a handheld game
* Add a dimmer to your favorite floor lamp
* Add a secondary switch or a dimmer to a power strip
* A one-wire hack turns a discarded ATX PSU into a benchtop experimenter's power supply  
* A one-wire hack turns a discarded ATX PSU into a benchtop power supply  
* Replace the tired nicads in your favorite power screwdriver (or electric toothbrush, or other rechargeable toy)
* Replace the tired nicads in your electric toothbrush (or power screwdriver, or other rechargeable gizmo)
* Hotrod your favorite power screwdriver with Li+ batteries
* Hotrod your favorite power screwdriver with Li+ batteries
* Circuit-bend that electronic toy for an even more annoying sound


You will have more and better ideas. Bring them and share!
You will have more and better ideas. Bring them and share! (I personally will be adding a pilot light to my desoldering gun so I can tell when it's plugged in and thus burninatingly hot.)


Yes this could be dangerous, and we may break things. That's how we learn.
Yes this could be dangerous, and we may break things. That's how we learn.


== Interested folks ==


Proposed schedule:  
[[User:Jtfoote|Jtfoote]]
 
[[User:turkshead|Shannon]]
 
[[User:Bill Nye|BillyBuggy]]
 
[[User:Dmolnar|David Molnar]] - have a dead laptop to play with
 
[[Tones]]
 
[[User:rachel|rachel]] I have a broken iron I'd like to fix
 
[[User:jstockford|jim]] i've got lots of broken stuff to play with
 
[[User:Christie|Christie]] Latest toy is a Neuros I dropped on its head.
 
David Stainton
 
[[User:miloh|Miloh]] Hardest fix I have on my bench has got to be the Playstation with video sync problems.  Next down a-ways is a cheap Roland studio monitor board with a bad channel (replace the 14W TDA2030 or ridiculous ubiquitous JRC4558DD?). I have a small e-waste parts collection and an eye to make a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning Gleaner's] map of what's good to salvage, what's not, and what's dangerous.
 
[[User:Bebez|Bethany]] Please please let's have this, I want to play.  I'll bring treats for the group.
 
==When?==
 
Not  yet scheduled, likely after the soldering workshop


  Week 1: Take things apart, determine problems, solutions, necessary parts to obtain.
  Week 1: Take things apart, determine problems, solutions, necessary parts to obtain.
  Week 2: Having obtained parts, put things back together and smoke-test (if it doesn't smoke, it passes!)
  Week 2: Having obtained parts, put things back together and smoke-test (if it doesn't smoke, it passes!)
Your comments and suggestions are a crucial part of this: thanks in advance

Latest revision as of 11:40, 28 July 2012

Workshop proposal: Hack your Hardware Jtfoote 14:11, 7 November 2008 (PST)

"No user-serviceable parts inside" -- we call bullshit on that!

Bring in your hardware yearning to reach its maximum potential (or give its life for spare parts). We give you permission to take things apart, see what's inside, and improve them. Most electronics failures are caused by bad connections or simple mechanical problems: we'll show you what to look for and how to fix them. Favorite gadget busted? Don't throw it away; fix it! (Or at least autopsy it for the good of science!)

Possible projects:

  • Add an extra iPod input jack to your clock radio or computer speakers
  • Add a USB hub to a desk lamp (or a bobblehead doll, or a stuffed toy, or...)
  • Hotrod your IR remote control to extend the range
  • Extract DC motors and other good stuff from that CD player found on the sidewalk
  • Fix that funky power jack on your old laptop so you can give it to Mom
  • Add another headphone jack (or FM transmitter?) to your laptop
  • Add a LED backlight or tasklight to a keyboard or a handheld game
  • Add a secondary switch or a dimmer to a power strip
  • A one-wire hack turns a discarded ATX PSU into a benchtop power supply
  • Replace the tired nicads in your electric toothbrush (or power screwdriver, or other rechargeable gizmo)
  • Hotrod your favorite power screwdriver with Li+ batteries
  • Circuit-bend that electronic toy for an even more annoying sound

You will have more and better ideas. Bring them and share! (I personally will be adding a pilot light to my desoldering gun so I can tell when it's plugged in and thus burninatingly hot.)

Yes this could be dangerous, and we may break things. That's how we learn.

Interested folks[edit]

Jtfoote

Shannon

BillyBuggy

David Molnar - have a dead laptop to play with

Tones

rachel I have a broken iron I'd like to fix

jim i've got lots of broken stuff to play with

Christie Latest toy is a Neuros I dropped on its head.

David Stainton

Miloh Hardest fix I have on my bench has got to be the Playstation with video sync problems. Next down a-ways is a cheap Roland studio monitor board with a bad channel (replace the 14W TDA2030 or ridiculous ubiquitous JRC4558DD?). I have a small e-waste parts collection and an eye to make a Gleaner's map of what's good to salvage, what's not, and what's dangerous.

Bethany Please please let's have this, I want to play. I'll bring treats for the group.

When?[edit]

Not yet scheduled, likely after the soldering workshop

Week 1: Take things apart, determine problems, solutions, necessary parts to obtain.
Week 2: Having obtained parts, put things back together and smoke-test (if it doesn't smoke, it passes!)

Your comments and suggestions are a crucial part of this: thanks in advance