No.33471
I believe all of us to an extent have boxes or bags of spare tech parts and old computers. Broken game consoles, old monitors, bags of cables, and USBs. Let's think of some shcway cyber things to do with them.
No.33484
virtualmech.info ~ s u b m i t a f o r m t o p u r c h a s e t e k ~ JAH.tek N O D E Z $1.154/¥100_d.l4CRYPT0-trans
No.33514
>>33471
I've got so much junk that I don't even take consumer-grade stuff when I have the opportunity anymore, except DDR3 and hard drives. I have 50 or so patch cables and a few hundred feet of unterminated cat5e in the back of my car, sitting next to the bent door of a rack I got not long ago.
No.33517
>>33471
LASERS. also you can make 3D printers or laser cutters using old stepper motors and parts you find in disk drives
No.33529
I'm in the process of collecting chips, control boards, wires, and other electrical looking components from work when i come across them. I don't know what I'm going to do with them. I work at a university as a maintenance tech, so I'm always coming across bad air conditioning boards, boiler ignition control modules, chiller sensors, automated building management components, etc. I'm going to keep stashing them until I can figure out what to do with em. I would like ideas just like OP.
No.33540
Scavenging for spare parts I guess. I saw someone use the chip from an RC toy that controlles movement for his own robot some time ago.
No.33542
>>33517
'ONE MAN'S JUNK IS ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE!' ~ V I R T U A L M E C H . I N F O ~ Miscellaneous matter in the form of plastics, metals - t3k can be redistributed as 'future' currency ϶5.000 per 1k parcel.
No.33547
Reverse engineer them and turn them into decks.
Go on schneier.com sometime and see all the infosec nerds lamenting over old school computer tech.
Soon that shit will all be outlawed/impossible to find.
If you don't believe me read "Right to Read" by Richard Stallman.
No.33579
>>33542
why the fuck would you post a dead link
pay for your domain retard
No.33844
I don't really have set-in-stone projects planned for all my scrap.
I have a few boxes full of wires, circuit boards of all sorts, power supplies, all sorts of shit. I just go digging around for stuff I need at the time.
Right now, I have an ac adapter to make. I only found copper wires and stripped em so far. I still need to get off my lazy ass and get a multimeter from the car where a shit ton of the tools are.
Weed is legal where I live, so I've been toying with the idea of a sort of vape chamber/hookah to rig up and sell to stoners. Make a bunch of rupees.
No.33871
What are some key locations that people dump tech and parts at? Really need something to do on the weekends.
No.33891
>>33871
Office supply stores like Staples, second hand tech stores, specific waste & recycling centers and sometimes, though rarely, junkyards.
There was this electrical company I used to live down the road from that would often throw out all sorts of cables and stuff. I'd drop in every few days and find something a least once every month.
It really just takes some poking around. Where ever you think tech would be heavily involved, take a peek at their trash.
No.34028
>>33471
hackaday.com/2015/07/20/automatically-designing-3d-printers-from-e-waste/
here you go chap
No.34032
>>33471
I've got an old computer sitting in my closet that runs Ubuntu 15.04. I upgraded it recently but I haven't used it for a long time.
No.34059
Assuming you have a load of boards you can't use for anything, I thought it might be schway to make a Japanese-style panelled screen out of them. Use the surface details to make pictures.
No.34582
>>33517
>>34028
also, scrap parts drones are also possible
hackaday.com/2014/04/01/e-waste-quadcopter-lifts-your-spirits-while-keeping-costs-down/
youtube.com/channel/UCDbWmfrwmzn1ZsGgrYRUxoA?
both links are full of bullshit but it can give you the basic idea.
this is the thing
http://www.flyelectric.ukgateway.net/motors.htm
and these guys are taking it to the next level
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2348222/Economy-class-The-remarkable-ramshackle-aircraft-Africas-DIY-aviators.html
No.34614
currently trying to access the UART bootloader on one of these things, I can't seem to find a diagram for what pins I should be soldering to, nor can I find one of the djhi custom made cartridges.
No.34625
No.34629
Any Australian bros here? Where's the best place to dumpster dive for tech and not expect rotten food to molest me?
No.34635
>>34629
If you can't endure a bit of rotten food, then dumpster diving isn't for you.
Also, think bigger. Find recycle stations or go to recycling yard during night and find a dumpster with electronics. Beware of cctv
And nobody will give away their clean, gold mine locations.
No.34642
>>34629
>>25750
the two threads happened to be back to back.
No.34643
>>34629
There will always be food, expect it every time. That being said if you can find a recycling center that has open access to the dumpsters you are less likely to find food in them.
No.34645
>>34582
>posts april fools article
No.34676
>>34645
So I have a pair of these hanging around and was wondering what I can do with headphones besides jewelry. I want some practical ideas and things like reusing them or taking the parts and using them for something else.
No.34687
>>34676
hook them up to some schway diy radio
No.34694
>>34635
I can endure rotten food. But why would there be food in an electronic store bin anyway?
And I'm not expecting anyone to give me their super special locations, Australia is a big place (it's as big as America) so even if someone finds a spot it may be way out of my reach anyway. I'm just asking for a store people have had got luck with, like JB Hi-Fi or something.
No.34699
>>33517
Absolutely, I always grab the motors, lasers, sensors, what have you out of things before I throw them away. The speakers in those cards with audio are great for playing around with waves on arduino
>>34582
Thanks, chummer. Some really nice articles. I can't believe that quad can make it off the ground.
>>34676
I suppose you could make bone conducting headphones, or some sort of contact mic you can stick to a door to hear what's going on on the other side of it. Are they bluetooth? If not, one wire(or two stuck together) going between the jack and headphones or two separate ones?
No.34777
>>34645
Yeah, i kind of fucked up with that one.
>>34694
You are being contradictory. First you are worried about food and now you say there isn't any.
1/1 keep it up
>>34676
There isnt really much you can do with headphones. Basically, they are a pair of really weak speakers in a plastic casing, connected with wires to a power and signal source.
You can reuse the cable on some other headphones if they die. Same with speakers, but they really really rarely blow out.
No.34837
>>33871
Schools.
Interned for a school back when I was a senior, doing computer shit. They had literal tons of old technology. Pentium 3 motherboards, G2 Machintoshs, everything. They even had a Style Write II. I'd recommend calling up your local highschool and ask them about buying some of their unused hardware. I've refurbised 3 computers from my piles of shit, you may do better.
No.34838
>>34777
>You are being contradictory. First you are worried about food and now you say there isn't any.
Now you're just being stupid. You didn't even read what I just said, I'm not going along with your bait.
No.34906
I like harvesting components because it's relaxing.
One interesting part that's often overlooked is that the driver transistors in CRT monitors go quite high and have decent power handling. so so if you are looking for free parts for making that jump from 50mW to 5W-10W on your pirate FM station. There's 3pcs of most likely suitable transistors there. And as we are driving them in class-c anyway no fancy matching is needed, so typical datasheets have enough info for retrofitting them in place for something else. like 2sc1971. The monitor also has nice shielding to construct the case for the amp and typical goodies like shielded wire, few ferrites and on older stuff a ton of pot's.
I find stuff from 1980-early2000 the most fun and rewarding to part out. Leadless solder was less common. Parts are trough hole and boards usually have only two layers.
>>33517
Been thinking about this for a LOONG time.
No.34944
>>34906
>>33517
Here you go
http://www.instructables.com/id/Pocket-laser-engraver/
2 cd drives, arduino with stepper controllers and a br laser. could even go with dvd burner laser.
No.34957
>>34944
Now this is the type of stuff I wanted to see.
No.34966
>>34944
Interesting. I should have a laser diode chassis like that somewhere and some 200mW IR (bought them for some cloud scatter non-LOS optical coms experiment, but was afraid of burning my eyes out) diodes also.
But something with a visible component is likely safer.
Never seen steppers in CD drives tho.
No.34977
>>33579
Just for you chummer, site is up!
No.34982
>>34977
So what does this site do? Because it sure hurts my eyes for one
No.34983
>>34982
G r e a t t h a t i n d I c a t e s y o u r c y b e r b r a I n I s r e a d y f o r h a c k I n g. T h e s I t e c o n t a I n s m y a r t & m u s I c p r o j e c t s a n d o n c e t h e f I r s t I s s u e I s r e a d y I t w I l l f u n c t I o n a s a h u b o f s o r t s!
No.34994
>>34991
Doubled
>>34966
Actually microsteppers, they are used for laser head position.
No.35017
>>34994
Most often saw the plastic shit with a nromal brushed DC motor, smae as used in CD players. Need to scrap more DVD & DVD burner drives.
No.35045
No.35047
>>33547
>Reverse engineer them and turn them into decks.
"Decks"?
No.35055
>>35017
this is what you are looking for. this one is from ps2 tho, pc's are a bit wider, but you get the idea
No.35277
>>35055
Yup, I do get the idea. Just not seen them often.
No.35363
>>35047
A cyberDeck is used by a decker to jack into cyberspace.
Slang for man portable computers often.
I think it comes from tape deck.
No.35575
Just some pictures from work.
No.35591
>>33471
One day I'm gonna make a schway-ass wall of CRTs. Something like pic related, only larger and obviously irregular cause all the monitors will be different models. The only problem I can think of is that the resolution will probably end up being gigantic, no matter how shit the individual screens are, and I'll need a high-end graphics card to actually run the thing.
No.35596
>>35591
I can't imagine you're going to be outputting anything too intense; you won't be rendering physics in real-time for example, just outputting pre-rendered video. I honestly imagine passive cooled, old-school, GPUs that came with old Dell workstations would be fine, you probably wouldn't even need to step up to gaming tier cards.
The real problem is probably going to be video output ports.
No.37357
No.37513
I have quantities of CD Rom drive that i use to make a small 2 acis laser engraver. I need to test a laser diod found in a Dvd drive.
Several projects are on instructables.
I have also motors and axis from flatbed scanner and printer to make a 3axis cnc.
No.37580