Has anyone ever broken or smashed up their old electronics and made something neat from the parts and pieces?
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This Pinterest page has many projects. My favorite is the bracelets. www.google.com/
Love to!!! Keyboards too! Put computer part assembleges in Pinterest and you can get lost for days. I like the green pieces with gold on them. They look need it wall hangings with mixed media like paper, fabric, broken tempered glass, and other metals. I love the wires too!
Be safe doing this deconstruction. The pieces can be sharp.
You need a good glue to affix them, like gorilla glue.
I have a few good ideas for the electronics, but I need to retrieve the motors from 2 of the machines. That means I have to somehow get into the device itself. Only problem is that one of the devices doesn't even have screws, and one of the others have stripped screws and I can't budge them. I don't know how to open them, lol. What can I do?
My friend is a computer guy. When I told him I wanted to do crafts with the computers, he told me to go to YouTube and find videos on how to take the things apart. You put the name of the machine into the search bar and use a term like troubleshooting or repairing and it shows you how to open them. I have only done a few and they had screws, but I can't see why it wouldn't work for one that didn't.
I am a YouTube convert which shows you can teach an old dog new tricks :)
Post back if you find what you need like I did!!
I searched YouTube for some info on how to open these specific items, and it said that some manufacturers do this intentionally, it's how they design them. Now that I know this, I have to figure out how I want to proceed in getting the thing open. And the device with the stripped screws, it's the same thing!
So last resort, and I am never game enough to try this is to take the sharpest dremmel tool and carefully cut through the plastic. My hands are not steady, so I won't try it. If you have steady hands, wear eye protection and heavy gloves, this video shows you how:
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