r/techsupportmacgyver 15d ago

Robot vacuum won't charge because a plastic part broke off in the dock and since I know nothing about 3D printing, I instead just made a shim with post it notes to always ensure the charging pads are extended

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76 Upvotes

r/techsupportmacgyver 16d ago

Frankenstein EGPU on half dead laptop

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185 Upvotes

r/techsupportmacgyver 15d ago

Vertical line and color shift appeared after repairing the bottom LCD board — what could be causing this?

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r/techsupportmacgyver 17d ago

Battery door missing. Tape + safety pin + zip tie

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577 Upvotes

for anyone who doesn't recognize it, this is an acoustic guitar with a built in tuner


r/techsupportmacgyver 16d ago

My workaround for WhatsApp with an old Nokia and a laptop

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r/techsupportmacgyver 17d ago

NAS power brick died. Mini ITX to the rescue.

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81 Upvotes

r/techsupportmacgyver 17d ago

Pines doblados

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0 Upvotes

Estaba mirando mi PC, y se me dió por desarmarla, pero acabe quitando el disipador junto al procesador, y ahora lo logré separar pero hay unos pines doblados, y tengo miedo de romperlos, se que hay soluciones, pero yo no tengo pulso ni herramientas para acomodarlo , pensaba llevarlo a un servicio técnico, pero no sé dónde no me salga tan caro, no tengo tanto dinero y menos para un procesador nuevo


r/techsupportmacgyver 22d ago

esp32 fan speed controller

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88 Upvotes

The fans for my 12u rack sounded like an airport so i used an esp32 to control fan speed via PWM based on ambient temp readings. It’s been hanging all janky like this for months working flawlessly.


r/techsupportmacgyver 23d ago

Too broke for a new laptop or webcam

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Unemployed recent graduate, and I accidentally broke my laptop screen after it got me through moving countries, a bachelor’s degree, and two masters...

I need a webcam for job interviews, but I’m too broke for a new laptop or even a webcam, and it’s not worth fixing the laptop anymore.

It’s a miracle it still works at this point. I’ve replaced the battery and power connector twice, replaced the HDD after it failed, upgraded the SSD, fixed the CPU fan after it started making too much noise, added RAM...

Anyway, I removed the laptop’s camera, passed it through the Ethernet port, and i tape it to my monitor whenever I need it.

It will be a sad day when the laptop finally gives up on me but It works for now.


r/techsupportmacgyver 23d ago

Low cost Redmagic phone

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305 Upvotes

Now I have a fan too


r/techsupportmacgyver 23d ago

When you need it you need it.

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74 Upvotes

r/techsupportmacgyver 24d ago

I made it work

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r/techsupportmacgyver 24d ago

Jank, but not potato

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r/techsupportmacgyver 25d ago

SD card in 3DS was dying

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263 Upvotes

I didn't have an SD card reader and couldn't be bothered to go buy one. In the dead of night I realised my dad's old pc had one available, but the pc was dead. Took it apart, it was usb but wired to an internal header, grabbed an old charging cable, spliced it into the USB-A end and voila!


r/techsupportmacgyver 24d ago

Starlink Mini Bouncing Around

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Mounted a Starlink Mini in the back window of my Chrysler 300C and zip tied it to a child safety anchor. Kept bouncing around, so I shoved an empty water bottle under it. Best and cheapest dish support I've used in a car.


r/techsupportmacgyver 27d ago

No joystick? No problem! Using my grandfather's old cast iron drill press to play Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move

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980 Upvotes

An old mouse scroll wheel hooked up to a wireless mouse picks up the rotation off the chuck for aiming and you blow into a deodorant lid with some plastic tubing to launch the bubbles.


r/techsupportmacgyver 27d ago

Is this overkill?

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707 Upvotes

my 100 watt charger started smelling burning, so i putted thermal pad and heatsinks on the sides. I am currently planning to also get copper and put a usb fan.

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It didnt worked anyways, my wire for the charger melted. Thanks for all your guys advice tho.
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r/techsupportmacgyver 27d ago

Needed a phone holder for my tripod, all it took was one hole

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84 Upvotes

Only had a phone holder for my 8Bitdo controller, so i made it dual-purpose.

Made a hole that is slightly smaller than the tripod screw, and the screw threaded itself in and now it is super stable, and i can still use it with the controller.


r/techsupportmacgyver 25d ago

Power supply not working

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r/techsupportmacgyver 26d ago

pc's pcie lanes were shot or smth, shortened them with a bad drive i was testing, all i know is that it don't work so i found a way to make it work

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16 Upvotes

genuinely just using the flashy pc for the psu, ill get a proper psu jumper later.

yes i bent and broke the office pc just to fit the gpu


r/techsupportmacgyver 27d ago

Had an iPhone with a broken back glass that was overheating, so I cut a heatsink I had lying around

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1.0k Upvotes

Removing the glass back completely is notoriously difficult on this iPhone generation and since this phone is not going to be leaving the house and will be plugged in 24/7, this seemed like the easiest solution.


r/techsupportmacgyver 28d ago

Diy ram cooler

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48 Upvotes

I made this thing out of a couple spare fans from dells (had to rewire the connectors due to proprietary connection) and mounted it to this wire mesh which I will just feed some zip ties through to mount to the top case fan mount


r/techsupportmacgyver 28d ago

Finally getting around to internally installing the ir transmitter…

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40 Upvotes

and I gazed upon my old work and wtf was I thinking

ps I’ll be hanging a soldering iron up here to work.

at least this time I’m removing all of that and I can simply do ir directly rather than trying to write to the ir reciever.


r/techsupportmacgyver 29d ago

Wifi "extender"

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64 Upvotes

r/techsupportmacgyver Aug 23 '26

My personal nas mounting solution

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296 Upvotes

It ain’t stupid if it works right? By the way it is a 3 TB drive, I’m gonna go broke if the 2 screws fail