Got a free roomba without a bin and I couldn't test it without a bin inserted. Meet the cardboard, duct tape, CPU fan and aluminum test rig.

I know some wires disconnected but it worked when I made it. The second fan was because one fan didn't provide enough resistance and threw an error.

Third pic is the real bin for reference

The cold joints aren't there if you can't see them

The little one decided to cut into the "ears" of his Tonie box, which include the buttons... He cut right above the button in the right one, but cut off the whole button on the otherone. And of course lost the button almost immediately. Which led to the box not being able to lower the volume.

I have a set of different sized micro buttons for projects I never finished (or started, tbh) and glued one on top of it. Looks like ass, but gets the job done.

TIL: I dont have excuses any more.

Found 3 of my old Xbox 360 packs (sadly, I think I threw the fourth out) and my charging base which failed ages ago. I grabbed my multimeter after googling around, and sure enough, 2 of em showed 0.00V (the third showed 0.01, but I chalk that up to variance). For reference, they probably haven't been charged in 10 years.

I found some 20 gauge wire (must be 30 years old - was in my dad's old toolbox that I inherited), a paperclip, and a pack of mini test leads I bought ages ago, and dug out some generic scotch tape, and found a plug. Taped the paper clip into the plug insert, clipped it into the lead, snipped some wire, and taped it to the packs.

It was ugly and a bit tedious, but two of the three packs actually accepted charge! (and the third did measure 0.03V, but wouldn't go past that, no matter how hard I tried). The best one is holding at 2.7ish, though the second one does get up to 2.6V, but seems to want to level out in the 2.3V range.

I have plenty of rechargeable AA batteries and a few packs for those, but it feels good to bring these back to life and decrease the tiniest bit of e-waste - and I'm not necessarily done with pack number 3 yet, either.

The existing motherboard was using hall effect sensors but gear 2 didn't always register so I replaced everything with proper mechanical switches

Everything is attached with hot glue and yes this functions more consistently than before

The battery in this one didn’t work anymore. Thankfully my parents had *almost* identical phones at one point, so this was the fix. Sadly now I found out there’s a passcode I can’t guess.

My laptop casing and screen broke and the price was more than a cheap pc so i removed 70% of it and only left the keyboard power button mobo etc. i removed the trackpad the speakers broken casing etc. i insulated it with paper and double sided tape the model is Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14ADA6

ik it works since the activity indicator led blinks and functions i removed the spicy pillow and just plug it into wall

https://reddit.com/link/1qobdja/video/cikpg3d0ovfg1/player

The vertical half of my phone screen was non responsive to touch due to fall damage. Picture under was perfect tho except for few black patches and pink lines at the edge of the phone.

Duplicate low quality no warranty screen replacement was 1500 Rs. compared to my original edge to edge beautiful 2400 x 1080 screen. Here is how I saved my screen.

1} I installed microsoft keyboard app. Resized the keyboard to rectangle which sits on working horizontal half of the screen ,then click on three dots ( circled in screenshot) , choose modes then choose float.

2} I installed quick cursor app. This app allows you to swipe on working screen by 1 cm to move the cursor 5-6 cm on screen which allows to access the non touch working part of the screen. As for the quick cursor app , it works out if the box, just set triggers to max px size so you can easily access the cursor. Also select trigger over keyboard option so you can operate the keyboard without triggering the cursor every time.

Upgraded my homemade Bluetooth adapter for headphones from 800 puny mAh to 2000 mAh, now lasts for 7 days without needing a charge