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Old PCB's
If you have an old PCB and it's heading for the bin.. then STOP !!
The more components it has, the better. Just hold it horizontal, and up at eye level.. about 6 inches fromyour eyes. Hey Presto.. your very own miniature spage age city. How the hours fly by. Does anyone else have ingenious uses for old bits n bobs? |
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"Dom Joly" wrote in
: If you have an old PCB and it's heading for the bin.. then STOP !! The more components it has, the better. Just hold it horizontal, and up at eye level.. about 6 inches fromyour eyes. Hey Presto.. your very own miniature spage age city. How the hours fly by. You must have a very exciting life -- Regards, Soeren * If it puzzles you dear... Reverse engineer * |
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Beam me up: Scotty, Total Lack of Intelligent Life Forms Here!!!
"Soeren" wrote in message 63... "Dom Joly" wrote in : If you have an old PCB and it's heading for the bin.. then STOP !! The more components it has, the better. Just hold it horizontal, and up at eye level.. about 6 inches fromyour eyes. Hey Presto.. your very own miniature spage age city. How the hours fly by. You must have a very exciting life -- Regards, Soeren * If it puzzles you dear... Reverse engineer * |
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"Art" wrote in
: Beam me up: Scotty, Total Lack of Intelligent Life Forms Here!!! "Soeren" wrote in message 63... "Dom Joly" wrote in : If you have an old PCB and it's heading for the bin.. then STOP !! The more components it has, the better. Just hold it horizontal, and up at eye level.. about 6 inches fromyour eyes. Hey Presto.. your very own miniature spage age city. How the hours fly by. You must have a very exciting life -- Regards, Soeren * If it puzzles you dear... Reverse engineer * Actually there is a whole genre of reused pcb's. There is a range from keychains to clipboards and small doodads encased in plastic. Some enterprising people have used old 8086 chips as combs and one uses atx power supplies for car inverters. Interesting note the chip as comb really sucks but there are people who just have to be geeks. Uber Geek |
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They've ALL done it, they just won't admit it.
"If you have an old PCB and it's heading for the bin.. then STOP !! The more components it has, the better. Just hold it horizontal, and up at eye level.. about 6 inches fromyour eyes. Hey Presto.. your very own miniature spage age city. How the hours fly by. Does anyone else have ingenious uses for old bits n bobs?" |
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"Dom Joly" wrote in message ... If you have an old PCB and it's heading for the bin.. then STOP !! The more components it has, the better. Just hold it horizontal, and up at eye level.. about 6 inches fromyour eyes. Hey Presto.. your very own miniature spage age city. How the hours fly by. Does anyone else have ingenious uses for old bits n bobs? Yes I do. The underside of a PCB makes for a very good surface to rub down the corns and bunions on my feet. Also, putting mains voltage across some of the components (especially the electolytic capacitors) and you have your very own indoor fire-works display! (Dont try this at home kids...) Fans, such as those used in microwaves make very good egg-whisks. Constantin wire, used in wire-wound resistors (usually high wattage types) can be used to make snares to catch furry animals such as rabbits and squirrels in your local woods. The advantage is that as well as trapping these animals, you can eat them as well. Old LEDs can be used to make kids jewelery. Cut off the legs, drill a small hole (1mm) through the base and thread the 'beads', preferably with a bit of constantin wire (see above). Be careful that the little ones don't take the new choker you have created too literally.... Coils such as those from mains powered motors make useful corporal punishment tools (though this may be illegal in some areas). Just ensure the victim, I mean subject, is connected to the terminals, then using a 9v battery quickly connect and disconnect the battery across these terminals. Shocking. I have many more uses for scrap electronics, but due to the size limit on these posts I am unable to. |
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