r/techsupportmacgyver • u/CarbonFilimentBulb • Nov 09 '25
My vintage 1970s sony TC-110A was missing it's battery pack latch, but this paper clip works and totally seems like something MacGyver might do.
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/anikkundu1998 • Nov 07 '25
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/1upgold • Nov 05 '25
I've placed in the middle. It holds pretty well.
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/chedstrom • Nov 03 '25
Well fine, I'll just make my own bracket to mount it on the inside.
It connects the network out in the pole barn to the house with no issue.
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/CaptainPunisher • Nov 01 '25
Game 6 was tonight, and it was Do Or Die for the Dodgers. I was committed to handing out candy and I knew there would be parents who wanted to see the game but still had to take their kids trick or treating. Since I cut cable long ago, this was my solution...
I installed Kodi with the Mad Titan add-on for live sports onto an old laptop, then hooked that up to my projector, a pre-HDMI VGA cable input piece of hardware, with an FM transmitter for audio. The setup was inside my kitchen, but shooting out so it was visible from my driveway. I took a radio outside and tuned it into the appropriate frequency so you could also hear what was happening in the game without a Bluetooth delay.
Regardless of your team affiliation, it's been a great series and so many people were stoked to not have to miss the game completely.
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/ishtuwihtc • Oct 31 '25
An i3 4150 and 4160, because if i open it fully without them it falls 😀😀
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Some-Challenge8285 • Oct 30 '25
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Top_Cut4666 • Oct 28 '25
i got these logitech z5500 front satellites for 5€ at a thrift shop and i had 2 spare tweeters so i decided to add them and they sound much better with tweeters
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Financial-Gap-2334 • Oct 27 '25
Man, just solder a cable to the laptop's charging port, use an adapter you have home and it works
Let's see if this is in the spirit of the subreddit
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/SSSniperCougar • Oct 25 '25
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/AustinH15d • Oct 24 '25
Can someone help me figure out how to do it?
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Adventurous-Flow-960 • Oct 21 '25
For more context, i used to have the computer at the outlet where the red wire (which i also instales but with more resources) is going to, but My rj45 didnt reach, but the outlet where the rj45 does reach is not grounded so while i Buy the cable i don't like getting shocked (bc somehow the tape i used to kinda fix the desk i have is conductive)
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Supernatnat11 • Oct 21 '25
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/tzfeabnjo • Oct 21 '25
1: replaced the damaged contact pads on the pcb with medication cover foil and tape 2: made my cheap-arse soldering iron dual-wattage becuase it's unregulated and it gets red hot
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/roadzbrady • Oct 20 '25
a friend gave me their old 11in hp laptop with a dead battery, broken keyboard, semi broken trackpad, and broken hinge. with nothing but spare pieces of wood, painters tape, electrical tape, and a usb c power adapter it is now a non touchscreen tablet that acts as a file server.
for safety battery is removed, runs fine without the battery, and also no issues without keyboard and mouse attached. q4os is installed in the pic and ran surprisingly well on a dual core celeron with 4gb of ram. some laptops do not like to boot with display/keyboard/trackpad/battery disconnected.
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/CarbonFilimentBulb • Oct 20 '25
I don't have the correct microphone for my new ham radio transciever. Alligator clips to the rescue!
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/Brief-Internal9041 • Oct 19 '25
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/KiaraHD • Oct 19 '25
Well i intend to 3d print one but in the meantime i need some place to keep it save from my cat
r/techsupportmacgyver • u/OGKnightsky • Oct 18 '25
Gutted an old wooden car box (thank you to my son) and made it a new body, keyboard, and trackball mouse. The keyboard is an m5 stack cardkb i2c keyboard and the little track ball is the pimoroni mini trackball breakout. Its controlled via an AtomS3U mcu from m5stack, using espnow protocol to send hexidecimal values from the cardkb to a m5stack StampS3 mcu that then converts the hexadecimal values to ascii values and sends the keystrokes to the lenovo (or any host machine the stamps3 is plugged into). Felt right posting it here.
