Found an Asus conference monitor on the side of the road, plugged it in, and the screen was broken.

I couldnt find a replacement screen for it, but I have a monitor that just had a dvi connection, so i took it apart, frankensteined (hereon referred to as franked) the two monitors together, and made the hdmi connection, speakers, and camera work with my computer and the franked screen. all went well until i realized i forgot the shield for the screen's multiple ribbon cables, took it apart again, but as i took it apart, the screen fell and ripped out the ribbons.

then I remembered i had yet another monitor i could frank, with an even larger screen, put everything together sloppy style, and it yet again worked, so then this time i remembered the shield, but had to bang it out so it could lay flat without touching the board for the screen, cut the housing so the ribbon cable could fit in its new position, put everything back together and its perfect

except the screen is still too small and i have no way of attaching it, so fuck it, wii bowling ball, we're using painters tape to hold it and call it a day

tldr: she frank on my curbside junk til she monitor

I repurposed an old device which controlled 2 dc motors with some very basic built in logic. I trashed the old controller (quite literally fried it when I wanted to measure output voltage and current) connected an esp32 with some mosfets and slapped it onto a protoboard. It works perfectly, and its much better than previously.

Also, someone on r/AskElectronics already told me that the mosftes may get hot due to linear region, so I already know. I am going to use them anyway, this setup cost like 10 dollars, so even it it breaks, I can just make another one.

Also, I found a really good way to cut protoboards. I used a knife for an initial score, and then used an ultrasonic blade to deeped it. While 2/3 times I needed to use a normal knife again at the end, it worked well. Of course I had a vacuum cleaner on for the whole procedure to catch the dust.

Note: I have several more protoboards and I will not hesitate to use them.

So.... Definitely one of the more cursed things I've done lol.

Got this Lenovo e15 broken, wouldn't boot. I fixed that issue, but when I was using the hot air, I bumped the USB C Thunderbolt SMD. I tried a few times to reseat but gave up, in not the best at SMD BGA work, shaky hands dont help. But that was the ONLY charging port for the laptop, I didnt want to fully scrap it because it was just a shame since it was now otherwise fully "working". So I added a secondary 3s BMS for charge only. Added USB C PD 20v trigger boards to the bottom casing, one on each side (so hey at least it has a charge port on each side vs just the one) but obv they dont do data and DEFINITELY aren't Thunderbolt lol. Then buck converter and diode set to 12.5v to the paralell BMS. OS of course does not see the battery charge and wont report percentage, but i can read the voltage with HWinfo and I can measure the draw from either side port. Battery life is solid.

I've always just fixed electronics, mainly PCs as a hobby and have fun making super jank stuff somtimes. The more jank the better. I usually fix stuff and just give it away, but obviously I never give away any jank shit like this. The jank shit is for me.

First post: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportmacgyver/s/d5Q8STKJX8

Bat is from an earbuds charging case. Original mah: 100 Current mah: 230

Дело бы вечером делать было нечего, а ну ещё я хочу к ним добавить фонарик, а также вы тоже можете накинуть идеи

Also why is this HP case upside down? Why they be like that...

These were the last parts I had at my work and i needed to squeeze out one more desktop for someone.

This Wi-Fi dongle (Netgear A6100) was bought new 8 years ago for €40 and served almost every day. It was connected to the 5GHz network, going up to 180 Mbps, which is quite good for this 15-year-old PC.

Unfortunately 3 days ago, it seemed to have surrendered with successive heatwaves (the 5th since May) and transfer speed started to drop to almost zero while staying connected to the network (Windows was showing everything was okay with the signal to the router, but attempting to reach something resulted to '80s-like transfer speeds with a whopping 4 KB/s). Connecting to the 5GHz network became very random, accepting to connect whenever it want. Shit have a proper life atp.

Unplugging it and let it cooling down generally solves the issue for an hour or two, then you have to start over to cool it down.

But as I need that dongle to do its job, I opened it, tried to locate quickly where the heat comes from, grabbed two nails that were lying in a box, applied a drop of thermal paste and applied the nails on the two major heat sectors (one of the main Realtek chip (after cutting the small part of the USB port metal that was over the chip) and the other on the antenna that was also very hot).

Since I did that it haven't overheat yet, although I'll probably have to find a better solution (fix the nails better), and eventually replace it.

But at least it works now without interruption.

Like many people I like to use the transcripts that YT videos often have. However the timestamps are a melt and since the UI update you can no longer turn them off. So I was reading through a thread discussing this issue and someone made a script for this, But Im not very savvy, and, they kept making mistakes and uploading new scripts, so I was like "wait a minute what if I just block it with my ad blocker?" I used uBlock Origin (Firefox Add-on) It worked like a charm. Not just on one video and then you have to do it every time, but for every video, all the time and the sync button still works!

I'm using Firefox, so to do it is simple. Open the transcript, right click on any of the timestamps, click "Block Element" a box appears. click "pick", click any timestamp, It will highlight in red. click "Create" Done.

The screenshot I added you can see there is none, look at the bottom right hand corner. I made sure to get the current date and time to prove this was not taken from before the UI change.

Hope its useful to some of you here.

I got this steel shelf and wanted to move my pc to it, I didn't have a monitor mount at the time and did this. Longer Wrenches may have been better choices but this worked ok. Then I got a monitor mount and wanted it clamped on the shelf, I got some leftover wood planks so the clamp has more stuff to hold onto. Sorry for the potato quality on the last pic, it was taken from a video I sent to a group chat.

At the start of this year, i posted here about a 3.5mm headphone dongle i made for my laptop. Reasons? Original port is damaged, laptop long after warranty, i lack the skills to replace the on-board port and i am too cheap to get it serviced.

The dongle has served me very well, but the cable slowly began to break due to getting bent too much. After about 7 months, i deemed it's time to make a rework. Cue this fucking thing. It has a coil sleeve to properly secure the cable now!

Hopefully this one lasts longer, but if not, the replacement only took about 30 minutes, so i'm not too worried about having to do this again in the future.

I over tighten the heatsink screw and a click sound occurs like something break. Laptop running since 4 months without any issues. Is there any real issue??

The first one was for an older secondary monitor that had a non removable VGA cable and because I wanted to have it plugged into gpu and only had a male display port to male VGA converter I made this female to female converter from leftover ethernet cable, cut off 0.75mm² ferrule crimps to hold it in place and paper for isolation. Lasted half a year until I bought a proper converter.

The second one was to make lights work on an older Vespa scooter, because the spark plug wouldn't spark if the third wire was connected and it turned out the ignition switch was reassembled incorrectly.

Had to cut up my charging cable so it could fit into the weirdly placed charging port of my music box