The word DIY, Life Hack, and Reuse are thrown around these days on clickbaity videos. This.... This is THE video that defines the DIY spirit properly. Actual useful items that you would ACTUALLY need, made using recycled product. Bravo, sir.
This is why he has over 2 million subscribers, it's all people who are enthusiastic about the real DIY hobby, not the fakes like 5 minute crafts, or shroom shroom
I seriously, SERIOUSLY did not expect this level of quality content from this video. The examples shown are the true form of recycling! Especially loved the lamp!
It’s sad that the entire DIY/Hacks niche has been destroyed by fake videos by outlets like 5 Minute Crafts and TH-cam has allowed it even though they supposedly ban misinformation in their agreements The only thing TH-cam cares about is money. Not quality We really need more competition in the tech industry. Breaking big companies into smaller ones would make things a lot better
I worked at a company that made the acrylic backlights for laptops and things. If you're doing the bear project, try to have the part of the cutout that's against the LEDs be in the same orientation as the original backlight was against its LEDs. The optical pattern on the acrylic has a density gradient so that the light will be more even over the whole surface if you do it that way!
1:10 - Speakers: attaching bluetooth amp and USB cable to them 2:30 - Cooling System: used to cool high power L.E.D. lights 3:40 - Screen: using the diffusion sheet behind the screen to make diffused lights for art and tracing pictures 4:40 - More Screen: making cool/weird shit with the diffusion sheets + L.E.D. lights 5:35 - Using acrylic panel behind screen and cutting out shapes 6:55 - If screen ISN'T smashed, use it as an additional monitor or smart mirror 7:28 - Microphone - use as a lav mic or attach to your headset for gaming 10:09 - If HDD works, put it in an enclosure. If broken, use it for sanding tools or making wind chimes 11:39 - Using HDD head array and laser pointer to make a VU meter 12:53 - Battery: using the battery cells to charge USB devices 16:20 - Webcam: making a home security system (also covered in another video on his channel) 17:20 - The Laptop itself - if the OS still works, use it for retro software/hardware 18:04 - just give it to someone else lol
I was lucky - for the most part I left things working... BUT... I only fixed, this guy re-purposes.... But yeah, even aged 8 I'd be stripping down an Acorn Electron or a BMW 328... give me a spanner and a screwdriver and 3 hours... I'm a menace! But things are usually better than worse after. Now I'm 47.... pfffff...... I have rooms full of trash - old laptops, dead TV's.... broken speakers.... hopefully soon I'll get my magic back and get these things fixed / re-purposed.
Mate now THIS is real diy, unlike 5-minute and all those weird channels. As the pinned comment says, this defines the DIY spirit correctly. You take something you cant use, and you make something that solves a problem. Congratulations! 4 years late, but you've earned yourself a subscriber! I might use your projects to inspire and make some of my own :D
@@numberyellow I meant that if you ever worked in a repair/electronics shop , and had to deal with customers , it can be really abrasive and change your attitude towards people - a.k.a not a happy person -at least while doing your job , for example , i really like doing similar things the guy here is doing in my free time or things i have to do in work but in my free time in my house for myself , but i kinda hate doing it in my work place - because i find customer service to be a hideous thing...
@@andrenal3609 i actually do computer repair as my job... yeah, customers suck sometimes, but when i am brought a broken computer, i am EXTREMELY happy, because i don't see a broken computer, or a dickhead customer... i see dollar signs, which means food, and rent, and fuel. for a lot of repair techs, it's just a job. For me, it's what i love doing, so customers can be pricks all they want, i'm still gonna be happy, because i'm doing what i love doing, and it allows me to eat.
Just a warning, I did this with a really old laptop and it worked, but the screen brightness was absolute garbage. Make sure if you convert a laptop to a second monitor that it's from the last 10 years at least or the screen will be really dark.
My only issue is the use of electrical tape rather than proper shrink tubing. Shrink tubing can easily be had in a variety of sizes and in assortment packs. Smaller circuit boards can also be encased in it and the ends crimped shut with pliers whilst the tubing is still warm if that look is desired. It looks, insulates and holds up much better than tape!
I can't make up my mind as to whether I prefer the laptop arc, the brass arc, or the fake window arc, but what I do know is that I'm very grateful for all of them. Some of the best stuff on TH-cam, hands down.
Be careful when re-using laptop battery cells. It's extremely important to check the internal resistance, self-discharge rate, remaining capacity, and whether or not they heat up when charging. I re-purpose li-ion cells from old laptop batteries all the time, and have tested probably 250+ cells at this point. The last thing you should do is just stick it in a charger if the voltage is still "good" without properly testing the cell first for safety. I had a few Sanyo cells the other day, took them out of the pack, checked the voltage. 3.86V. I though "Great! These are still good!", that is, until I ran them through a Liitokala Engineer lii-500 to check their remaining capacity...During the initial charge cycle the temperature SHOT up at ~4V. They must have been 75 degrees C or more, I could barely handle them. So please, if you're reading this, be careful. While the majority of old cells MAY be safe, it's imperative to check them first before re-use. Imagine you gave a power bank to your little brother/sister or cousin and later found out they were burned or worse? Take the precaution of checking them properly, it's so important guys.
You can easily do this with common tools. It just won't be as pretty. Well, there are ways to do it with a chisel and drill if you are accurate enough, etc.
I’ve used this video as my only reference for making my e waste sculpture. It’s been so helpful I feel like I owe you something. I used the screen lamps as two main parts of my sculpture. Thank you!!!! Once the auction for the sculpture is over. I’d love to potentially collaborate on some public art installations. Even just talking with you to hear your insight on it. The recycling community definitely needs more people like you.
a little rant here. I bought a book about "what to do with a dead computer" or something, and hoped for just this sort of projects! Instead I learned how to make a doorstop, and a rock garden, etc. It was a complete waste! Thank you for making these videos for us to enjoy. If you ever thought of publishing a book with this content and building passive income, I'm ready to order one.
The backlit panel would also be extremely useful useful for astrophotography calibration frames when stacking images of nebulae, galaxies, star clusters, etc.
I cant believe I'm saying this but... THIS is 19 minutes of my life I'm glad I spent on TH-cam. DIY Perks leaves me informed, capable and inspired to try out these re-purposed project from an old laptop.
You know, I came back to watch this again for whatever reason and I just like that you aren’t pretentious, and you show what you did. For some things that are difficult, you offer easy alternatives as well.
Fantastic DIY suggestions that you actually COULD do yourself! The one thing I'd like to see covered that wasn't, though, is how to repurpose an internal DVD/RW drive into a standalone one. This would be especially useful, since newer laptops no longer include optical drives, and those almost never went bad in old laptops. Please include this in one of your next videos!
If the laptop has a DVD/RW and was made about 2010 or so. The DVD/RW drive is SATA drive with the micro connector. You can get a micro SATA to usb adaptor.
Small improvement on the laser view meter: Mount the entire hard-drive on a small fan that you voluntarily force to vibrate. Either brake one of the fan blade or glue some weight. This will create the vertical scan while the music is still displayed as an horizontal line. The effect is similar to using a scope but nicer because the scan is symmetrical. What you see is nice Lissajous figures depending on the frequency content of the music.
120 thumbs up, my most popular comment on youtube. My first experience of a similar way to display music was using an old color TV. There was still a few vacuum tube, in particular a large one with metal cap on top to rectify 25 kv and a bigger one for pulsing at 15 KHz to produce horizontal scan an the high voltage +25 kv. The CRT was 26 inches, diagonal. It was the old style with the phosphor being dots, not vertical stripes. It used dynamic convergence with 3 electromagnets close to the deflection 'yoke'. A PCB with 16 adjustable resistors allowed to adjust how much current is used to stir each color mostly near the 4 corners. I disconnected both horizontal and vertical wire from the yoke (like the science fiction pretend: don't adjust your tv, we control the horizontal and vertical... I used a 6 volt transformer, connected it on the horizontal wires of the yoke. I connected the vertical to an amplifier, in parallel with the speaker. Result: Same as with this laser, except: because of the dynamic convergence, trying to force the red, green and blue to center, the 3 colors were separated but followed similar path. The music was illustrated with these 3 intense, saturated, colors. Using a more recent CRT, we need to use magnets near the neck to force the color to separate. Otherwise, the convergence is so good that we just see a more boring white trace. It is hard to keep the color saturated in every parts of the screen. Modern CRT are just too good at keeping the 3 colors well aligned with the shadow mask.
@@HAWXLEADER problem is the protocol. I can't remember if it was this guy but there was a video about reusing old laptop cameras, the camera itself uses 4 wires that actually follow USB protocol so you can even plug it into a regular computer USB. Cell phone cameras, however, have a completely different set of protocols, both hardware and software with many different pinouts and methods of connecting to a host device. Some cameras like the one for the Google Pixel have sufficient documentation and even have interface boards, however you'll need to do a lot of research to find which one will work. In addition, if you're using it as a USB type webcam then you may be limited by the speed of the USB protocol itself. This is why some cameras for high demand applications (think industrial and manufacturing uses like machine vision) use "Ethernet" cables because of the higher bandwidth and greater reliability.
There's a program on android called IP Webcam, and you can use an older smartphone as a motion activated security camera. It also works with a cloud backup service for $4 a month. You can also put one of those clipon fish-eye lenses on it.
@@pleaseadjustyourtracking6330 I used IP webcam for a few weeks on an older phone and the device kept overheating, bugging out and eventually turning off. After just those few weeks (few hours a day usage) my battery life went down to one fifth of what it used to be. Its possible to use smartphone cameras as webcams, but in general they were not designed to be used for longer periods, especially while the phone is transmiting that video feed. Newer phones could probably handle it better than my old galaxy S6, but you should still be careful.
@@pleaseadjustyourtracking6330 There's a free app that I have used for years as a security camera called Alfred. Works on both android and IOS. It's brilliant. It has free icloud storage.
A warning for the HDD platters ideas… I discovered recently that small HDD platters can be some kind of delicate glass or something. I dropped one on a hard surface and it shattered into thousands of sharp tiny bits. Not fun to clean up. But if they’re proper metal, should be all good!
You can run Addictive Drums 1.5, pretty good drum VST on hardware like Acer Aspire One. With proper sound card, you can even do basic multitrack music recording on it, and i am sure you can run prettty good sounding VST piano plugins like Acoustica Pianissimo on that machine :)
how can you do this? when you view it in the system, it's typically not a real key from what i've seen, especially if the system is the one the computer came with. if you installed it and paid for a license yourself though, its a different story and yes it would be on there... care to explain? im curious how you can do this. thanks in advance .
I don't think that's "legal" (depends on where you live), Windows OEM License, the one that comes preinstalled with the device, is supposed to be usable only for that particular device, non transferable. But may still be able to be used and activated in other devices if you try, though this will be "grey" in legal context. Unless we're talking about windows Retail/FPP license we bought separately from the device, that will come in handy since we have the right to transfer the license to other devices.
@@feelsgoodmanjpg7762 gotchu, will look into that. @fathi, not tryna do anything illegal either lol. Just asking out of curiosity and for educational purposes.
@@iH85CH001 older laptops used to have the windows key (license sticker) on the back. At least most of mine had it back in the windows xp, vista and windows 7 days. Not sure about newer ones (my win10 doesn't have one)
I absolutely applaud you for "reuse and repurpose" and ideas that will keep old laptops out of landfills. Unfortunately this is all above my technical abilities, lol.
save your harddrives at least, the adapter pieces are very cheap and its always good to have extra storage. and they are easy to hook up with no special pieces to desktop motherboards. i'm also really bad with tech but this one i did do.
Regarding old hardware that works only on 32-bit OS: sometimes a virtual machine can be used. 32-bit VM will work fine inside 64-bit host OS, and you can redirect USB (always) and PCI (requires mobo and cpu support) to the VM. I use such setup for an old USB scanner.
@@Arti9m Not exactly. The idea is that 32bit SOFTWARE will run well in the 32bit VM...inside the 64bit host. I believe the host would still need a 64bit driver for the hardware to be functional in the VM. I could be wrong about this. I haven't dealt with this exact situation myself. Cheers!
@@PumpkinSeed17 You are wrong and kinda right. You can pass the usb device directly into the VM without having the 64 bit host machine bother with it at all. The only downside is if the hostmachine does like win10 tends to do and autoinstall a driver. Sometimes these drivers can be explicity unsopported by the OS and actually cause crashes and unstability. There are ways around this, but still something to keep in mind if you plug old devices into your pc. TL;DR: No drivers need to exist on 64 bit host for 32 bit VM.
expected a like " i turned it into 3 coasters or I made a plate out of it for NO REASON but this is actually really well done and not wasteful good on you mate!
I have boxes of harvested parts that I knew I would need one day. Because of this vid I took the course cooling unit and used it for my lighting for my scope. Those led heat up real quick. Now I don't have to worry bout summer temps. This channel rocks
I don't know the math on cost efficiency, but this could be a good way to make side money if you have the time and depending on the price and usability of the laptops you pick up. Potentially good for teens as it can also develop electronics skills
I have taken apart dozens of old hard drives. The magnets are handy to have around the house, and in the desert, they can be used to find meteorites. I have used the disks to make wind catchers for my wife's wind chimes that have lost them in the wind. They do keep their shine and with a sharp drill bit, you can drill a hole on the disk and run some fish line through it to tie it to the chime, a small wooden ball works to ring the the chimes as the wind twirls the disk.
Great content as always. Just a slight correction, I am a ContaCam user and if you use the motion capture and recording triggers it is extremely resource intensive. So if you plan on using the software and have a slower system please make sure you turn down the recording quality otherwise it will max out the CPU and will crash every few hours.
My grandmothewr gave me an old laptop of hers that I noticed was broken. I'm actually attempting to reuse the LCD screen to have another screen monitor, this gave me more ideas on what to do with the rest of the components :)
Whenever I get my hands on an old computer, I usually just clean it up, replace the thermal compound, replace the HDD, and put a light "windows-like" Linux distro on it, such as LXLE. If I'm in an extra good mood, and it is a desktop, I might put in like a GT 710 or an HD 6450. Then I either give them to literally anyone I know who needs a PC, or donate them.
Ive just discovered the channel. Everything is perfect about this video: the charming guy, his soothing voice with its lovely British accent, the awesome creative projects and the general motivational message it gives to people who care about the environment
I disassembled like 20 old laptops in my early teens out of pure boredom and destructivity. Ended up using the magnets from disk drives as fridge magnets.
@@BigDBoogyWoogy Good mic components aren't too expensive, the quality of the circuits controlling it and isolating it properly can be however, the amp they use in the laptop is also surrounded by electrical equipment so lots of interference.
10:30 For hard drives, even though it may be small in capacity, I use it for backups. As a developer my source code files are pretty small so space is not a concern. Availability is the main concern.
If you're a developer and the code is actually important to you, please get a new hard drive, flash storage or an SSD, old hard drives aren't the most reliable for backing up important data.
I do backup to the cloud. Encrypted and splitted into chunks of files and uploaded to the different cloud provided of course. Offline storage is only for non important things like music or movies, ISOs, or mirror repository.
Apart from the useful ideas you give on this video, i subscribe to you for being such a good person that you thought about giving an older computer to old people who would "just need to acces emails". That's exactly what we did with my grandma and she's happy to get news from family outside the country. Have a very pleasant day and please, do not change your soul for the usual common trashy ones that spread out in our modern societies. ;-) Cheers from Switzerland 👍
I haven’t thrown a laptop away since 2005, I’ve been waiting for this video to come in to my life randomly. I’ll still never do any of it, but it’s cool :)
Things anyone can make with an old dead laptop and no skill - a cup coaster, a doorstopper, a prop up for other objects, a weight, a weapon, and an old dead laptop in several broken pieces (results depend on how hard you throw or smash it)
The reason that commercial security systems tend to look awful are due to storage constraints rather than the cameras themselves. A company may need to store weeks or even months of 24 hour footage, and video takes up more space as quality increases. The kind of capacity needed for that is expensive even for businesses, especially considering one building may have dozens or even *hundreds* of security cameras, all recording at once, non-stop.
@@boxwithahat there are ways around this, like motion and light detection so its not constantly recording. this would have to be used in low traffic locations too.
The "LED Laptop Screen" can also be used as a replacement backlit keyboard. You can trigger the keyboard to work via USB and order replacement laptop keycaps that are transparent and also be used as backlit keycaps.
Save the hinges - nice for building adjustable lamps, lids, and work holders since they hold their position. You can also salvage bluetooth adapters out of some laptops, just like the webcams. Mind the voltage, some run on 3.3v instead of 5. Save the power brick and the laptop's power input jack to power a future project. Some newer laptops also have light sensors and magnetometers that sometimes can be found on little daughter boards. Also, some laptop cases are made of magnesium, which can be a fun metal to experiment with (safely).
In case you make the external monitor, the hinges will be perfect to make it adjustable. You can also try getting the WiFi chips, they might be interchangeable with a laptop that works
This was really interesting. There are so many gimmicky ways of reusing the parts, but you found some really good ones I've never seen before! Another option for older laptops that still work but are slow, is to put a minimal linux distribution on them and use them kinda like a chromebook.
@@rasaecnai with those specs I think you could run just about any distro. I myself have older laptops with 1 and 2g of ram that I've been trying many distros on trying to find one that suits my needs. Their is an open source equivalent of chrome, just can't think of the name, but primarily uses the older hardware/software for solely internet use. As to not tax the system so much to run slowly.
@@-Savage- chromium os is the open source chrome OS, there's also chromixium. Bodhi Linux I've always find to be the most lightweight and stable and all around best Linux distribution for old slow computers, it's based on Ubuntu LTS, so it's very solid but the softwares will usually be older.
Me: There's no way he can make anything out of this crap, that's actually useful. (20 mins later) Me: hey does anyone have an old laptop they don't want?
Liked, subscribed, saved - thank you! Years ago I began making art projects out of old appliances, CDs and DVDs, then old computers. I now have more than 500 (mostly working) outdated computers in my collection, and have been exploring practical and art ideas to put them to good use. Thank you so much for your great ideas and how-tos! I will recommend your channel and visit often.
On the last tip (if it for some reasons hasn't been suggested yet) one should add to consider installing a Ubuntu (or derivative) OS, if considering gifting it away as an email reader/browser/writing computer for someone Some of the distros can make even a dreadfully slow old computer quite usable for simple things like that. Also, I wish there be DYI videos on learning DYI wood-crafting at home on the budget to make these casings and bodies for the DYI projects. I have done a lot of wood-crafts when I was younger, but I had professional level equipment, facilities and materials. I wouldn't know where to start trying to do some of that stuff at home on the budget and safely
These are exactly the ideas I have in mind when dismantling everything but never has it turned out like this man's wtf i think its the accent that gives you power and the ability to sound a lot more intelligent ...and my Texan accent is great for commentating Nascar or perhaps a rodeo ......you sir are basically the tinker God!
I LOVE THE CREATIVITY THE MIND YOU PUT IN PROJECTS. INSTEAD OF THROWING THINGS IN TRASH PEOPLE LIKE YOU TEACH US HOW REUSE THEM AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. बहुत खूब आपने बहुत अच्छा काम किया है चीजों का सही इस्तेमाल किया है अपनी कल्पनाशीलता का बहुत अच्छा उदाहरण दिया है LOVE FROM BHARAT(INDIA) 🇮🇳🇮🇳
cheap chinese lavalier microphones are 2$ a pop on aliexpress and most of the time their quality rivals "professional hardware" worth hundreds. /watch?v=MwWlxKLrZ-w buying gamer headsets is a meme
I'm using very old laptop as home library for digital documents, private projects, e-books etc. I have two more old laptops for IT training. Great video!
@@maryroberts6311 Similar situations here. I have about 5 old laptops that I never use. Wish I had half the know-how or tools required to do a couple of these projects.
You can also use the hard drive mirrored disk as a tool to drill perpendicularly into anything, as a mirror helps greatly to better see the angle of your drillbit. A mechanician friend use this trick quite often.
Ok I don´t really know what to say. This is by far the best DIY video I have ever watched or strike that; the best DIY content ever. This is contemporary design abd good presentation on how to do it! thank you and keep making quality content of DIY videos on stuff most of people have laying around. This will be a fun weekend project!
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The word DIY, Life Hack, and Reuse are thrown around these days on clickbaity videos.
This.... This is THE video that defines the DIY spirit properly. Actual useful items that you would ACTUALLY need, made using recycled product. Bravo, sir.
Lek.
I can't agree more.
Things that are normally thrown away get a second life and become something useful.
Haha like the ones "DIY a beautiful chair - all you need is a industrial grade CNC router and a professional welding machine"
Yea, some vids are dumb or plain misleading.
But this? This is quality.
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Another tip: keep all the screws from the dismantled laptops. They are mostly standardized and come in handy if you lose one
yeah, usually m2 screw that come standard with motherboard
Very true. I often need m2.5 or m2 size for refurbished ones I do as a side project
Swallow them and hold a strong rare earth magnet over your stomach
lose*
Keep them for 2 plus years then chuck them as you realise you won't be using them
Your enthusiasm is infectious. Since I started watching you, I've finished a whole bunch of half-done projects.
I agreed with the enthusiasm part of your comment with a serious face but as I read about the half-done projects it became funny. 😂
How do you store all the parts? So the significant other is happier.
Can you make a good car stereo out of found parts from old DVD, TV, computer parts, speakers, etc.
This is why he has over 2 million subscribers, it's all people who are enthusiastic about the real DIY hobby, not the fakes like 5 minute crafts, or shroom shroom
@@knightly_bear its not shroom shroom its troom troom hahah
I seriously, SERIOUSLY did not expect this level of quality content from this video.
The examples shown are the true form of recycling! Especially loved the lamp!
Agreed, that lamp is cool.. As was all of it, but damn.. I'd love a lamp like that.
makes me want to smash my laptop
i am twelve years old and i do exactly that, i take old broken electronics and scrap them for parts so i can build stuff with them
It’s sad that the entire DIY/Hacks niche has been destroyed by fake videos by outlets like 5 Minute Crafts and TH-cam has allowed it even though they supposedly ban misinformation in their agreements
The only thing TH-cam cares about is money. Not quality
We really need more competition in the tech industry. Breaking big companies into smaller ones would make things a lot better
@@ProtoHadron That’s so cool! I want to learn how to do that too. It seems very fun and creative
I worked at a company that made the acrylic backlights for laptops and things. If you're doing the bear project, try to have the part of the cutout that's against the LEDs be in the same orientation as the original backlight was against its LEDs. The optical pattern on the acrylic has a density gradient so that the light will be more even over the whole surface if you do it that way!
PJ I love to work with acrylic and backlit can you help thanks
Hello..i want to learn electronic project making ..can u please help me.please
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You're so cool for this. Keep the spirit
1:10 - Speakers: attaching bluetooth amp and USB cable to them
2:30 - Cooling System: used to cool high power L.E.D. lights
3:40 - Screen: using the diffusion sheet behind the screen to make diffused lights for art and tracing pictures
4:40 - More Screen: making cool/weird shit with the diffusion sheets + L.E.D. lights
5:35 - Using acrylic panel behind screen and cutting out shapes
6:55 - If screen ISN'T smashed, use it as an additional monitor or smart mirror
7:28 - Microphone - use as a lav mic or attach to your headset for gaming
10:09 - If HDD works, put it in an enclosure. If broken, use it for sanding tools or making wind chimes
11:39 - Using HDD head array and laser pointer to make a VU meter
12:53 - Battery: using the battery cells to charge USB devices
16:20 - Webcam: making a home security system (also covered in another video on his channel)
17:20 - The Laptop itself - if the OS still works, use it for retro software/hardware
18:04 - just give it to someone else lol
"Just give it to someone else lol"
@@KingJellyfishII Just "donate" it to a charity so they can list it on ebay as "Vintage Hardware"
@DIY Perks should do this
@@KingJellyfishII with a link to this vid!!!
thanks
This guy is basically how I imagined myself when I was a kid taking apart my broken electronics, except things actually work properly lmao.
Same. Still have loads of random parts and electronics laying around
Yeah
Yup very relatable
I was lucky - for the most part I left things working... BUT... I only fixed, this guy re-purposes.... But yeah, even aged 8 I'd be stripping down an Acorn Electron or a BMW 328... give me a spanner and a screwdriver and 3 hours... I'm a menace! But things are usually better than worse after. Now I'm 47.... pfffff...... I have rooms full of trash - old laptops, dead TV's.... broken speakers.... hopefully soon I'll get my magic back and get these things fixed / re-purposed.
this guy has drive to do it and then gain more experience with material and tools and knowledge.. and he makes a living from this
Mate now THIS is real diy, unlike 5-minute and all those weird channels.
As the pinned comment says, this defines the DIY spirit correctly.
You take something you cant use, and you make something that solves a problem.
Congratulations! 4 years late, but you've earned yourself a subscriber! I might use your projects to inspire and make some of my own :D
yeah!!!!
Use hard disk as external storage
I think you're the only person i've ever seen, outside of the repair space, smiling, and happy about broken laptops.
Thats probably because he doesnt have to deal with customers service , which prevents alot of headaches and a much better life quality
@@andrenal3609 Huh? what does customer service have to do with anything?
@@numberyellow I meant that if you ever worked in a repair/electronics shop , and had to deal with customers , it can be really abrasive and change your attitude towards people - a.k.a not a happy person -at least while doing your job , for example , i really like doing similar things the guy here is doing in my free time or things i have to do in work but in my free time in my house for myself , but i kinda hate doing it in my work place - because i find customer service to be a hideous thing...
@@andrenal3609 i actually do computer repair as my job... yeah, customers suck sometimes, but when i am brought a broken computer, i am EXTREMELY happy, because i don't see a broken computer, or a dickhead customer... i see dollar signs, which means food, and rent, and fuel. for a lot of repair techs, it's just a job. For me, it's what i love doing, so customers can be pricks all they want, i'm still gonna be happy, because i'm doing what i love doing, and it allows me to eat.
@@numberyellow Why can't you just agree with the truth that some costumers are extremely difficult and energy sapping?
As someone who had been considering buying a second monitor and who has about five old laptops still lying around, this video made me very happy.
dam imagine the possibilities and how many screens you can have now xD
Just a warning, I did this with a really old laptop and it worked, but the screen brightness was absolute garbage. Make sure if you convert a laptop to a second monitor that it's from the last 10 years at least or the screen will be really dark.
@@JordanPool13 Thanks for that. Will do. :)
I am genuinely impressed by the microphone.
Same here impressed by the camera security system as well
Is there a video how he wired it?
There's nothing here...go away 😂😇
@@helLf1nGerTA +1 I want to build mine too
My only issue is the use of electrical tape rather than proper shrink tubing. Shrink tubing can easily be had in a variety of sizes and in assortment packs. Smaller circuit boards can also be encased in it and the ends crimped shut with pliers whilst the tubing is still warm if that look is desired. It looks, insulates and holds up much better than tape!
I can't make up my mind as to whether I prefer the laptop arc, the brass arc, or the fake window arc, but what I do know is that I'm very grateful for all of them. Some of the best stuff on TH-cam, hands down.
Hello..i want to learn electronic project making ..can u please help me.please
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18:05 This. This is truly why I appreciate what you do!
You're so humble, honest, and true to the DIY mindset.
Be careful when re-using laptop battery cells. It's extremely important to check the internal resistance, self-discharge rate, remaining capacity, and whether or not they heat up when charging. I re-purpose li-ion cells from old laptop batteries all the time, and have tested probably 250+ cells at this point. The last thing you should do is just stick it in a charger if the voltage is still "good" without properly testing the cell first for safety. I had a few Sanyo cells the other day, took them out of the pack, checked the voltage. 3.86V. I though "Great! These are still good!", that is, until I ran them through a Liitokala Engineer lii-500 to check their remaining capacity...During the initial charge cycle the temperature SHOT up at ~4V. They must have been 75 degrees C or more, I could barely handle them. So please, if you're reading this, be careful. While the majority of old cells MAY be safe, it's imperative to check them first before re-use. Imagine you gave a power bank to your little brother/sister or cousin and later found out they were burned or worse? Take the precaution of checking them properly, it's so important guys.
TheRageMaker he said celsius dude not fahrenheit
Apologies, I should have written Celsius to be more clear.
Ok boomer
who asked.
@@bruhidk3337 bruh he is just making people aware that there are more precautions to take so you don't INJURE yourself or others
I like how this channel actually is "DIY" stuff, not "DIY if you have $250k of sponsor-provided CNC machines"
You can easily do this with common tools. It just won't be as pretty. Well, there are ways to do it with a chisel and drill if you are accurate enough, etc.
@@abyssstrider2547 That was their point :) you just said what they said in different words
@@Chimera_Photography A drill, saw and a damn chizel + hammer will cost you nothing dude.
@@Chimera_Photography probably not even 300$ and most of the cash you will give for the drill as it's the most expensive.
@@abyssstrider2547 Everyone is agreeing with you...
I’ve used this video as my only reference for making my e waste sculpture. It’s been so helpful I feel like I owe you something. I used the screen lamps as two main parts of my sculpture. Thank you!!!! Once the auction for the sculpture is over. I’d love to potentially collaborate on some public art installations. Even just talking with you to hear your insight on it. The recycling community definitely needs more people like you.
Me: watches this.
My Laptop: *nervous overheating*
LOL
Laptop: 👁️👄👁️💧
It's OK, he saw how to mount another fan on you
😭😭😭
dude 😂😂😂
a little rant here. I bought a book about "what to do with a dead computer" or something, and hoped for just this sort of projects! Instead I learned how to make a doorstop, and a rock garden, etc. It was a complete waste!
Thank you for making these videos for us to enjoy. If you ever thought of publishing a book with this content and building passive income, I'm ready to order one.
Return that sht lol don't give scammers your money
I think I saw the same book! I was disappointed too. Stuff like this was what I wanted.
@@身赤-w3w exactly
So this book was just "drop laptop in different locations" :)
Mortar board ?
This is the first "repurposing" video I have ever seen that actually produces useful, functional items, not just silly decorations etc.
T W it's cuz he has an understanding of the technology
I agree
I'm glad he didn't make a flower pot
Thought the same.
The things he made from the laptop screen were also decorations right?
The backlit panel would also be extremely useful useful for astrophotography calibration frames when stacking images of nebulae, galaxies, star clusters, etc.
Yeah right❤❤
And for combining older technologies. Viewing transparencies.
🤓
What does that mean? I actually want to know
@@preatyrajrao6486 Which commenter are you asking?
This is the most underrated channel ever. This is the true meaning of DIY
Literally has 6 million subs I think it’s far from underrated
Steve Rogers 2*
DJ Cook: Am I a joke to you?
Underrated at 2 mil subs*
U do realize he got more than 2mil subs right
I thought they were all going to be gimmicks, but there's some pretty cool things there
Like what
@@SamdGG the second monitor is pretty nice
@@SamdGG the fresnel lens lamp and the smart mirror is pretty dope
@@lolgamez9171 the lamp is meh and the mirror is overkill but is good
TH-cam, THIS is DIY
Stop recommending me 5 minute crafts and buzzfeed! I want to see THIS.
@Aung Zeya wait what is 5 minute craft i have heard of waste 5 minute of your life craft
You can tell TH-cam to stop recommending it to you.
I agree
@@LegoRobotLover it does for me lol
TheJoJmaster
:click the 3 dots
:click ‘Stop recommending this channel’
:Profit
This channel is 100% just Basically Homeless for adults (and i love both of them equally) This is my favorite part of the internet.
fr they are bith amazing
Poor british man
This feels like Art Attack for grown-ups!
so truuue hhhhhh
"come and have a look at this"
Art Attack, but without the "Additionally to some paper tissues and paint you need some ectoplasm and the horn of a unicorn."
ty :) got to watch that for kicks not seen Art Attack in decades :)
It really does
This man's house must be quite interesting.
Lol
Mr Pickles is a Pickle
I was just thinking about it. Lol
@@seanlabath560 Best comment.
he probably has real iron man suits in the basement
I cant believe I'm saying this but... THIS is 19 minutes of my life I'm glad I spent on TH-cam. DIY Perks leaves me informed, capable and inspired to try out these re-purposed project from an old laptop.
These ideas all suck.
You know, I came back to watch this again for whatever reason and I just like that you aren’t pretentious, and you show what you did. For some things that are difficult, you offer easy alternatives as well.
Fantastic DIY suggestions that you actually COULD do yourself! The one thing I'd like to see covered that wasn't, though, is how to repurpose an internal DVD/RW drive into a standalone one. This would be especially useful, since newer laptops no longer include optical drives, and those almost never went bad in old laptops. Please include this in one of your next videos!
While a nice suggestion, this isn't always something that can be successfully removed and put in some kind of external case.
@@MatthewN8OHU Oh no! I was really hoping to be able to do that.
@@s00gee Most of them can be, only Really old ones were custom. Same adapter as laptop size hard drives have in external cases.
@@s00gee Actually, you can for 90% of them, it is. It must be a pretty weird laptop if you can't. ICY BOX has good cases for them. I use it myself.
If the laptop has a DVD/RW and was made about 2010 or so. The DVD/RW drive is SATA drive with the micro connector. You can get a micro SATA to usb adaptor.
Small improvement on the laser view meter:
Mount the entire hard-drive on a small fan that you voluntarily force to vibrate. Either brake one of the fan blade or glue some weight. This will create the vertical scan while the music is still displayed as an horizontal line.
The effect is similar to using a scope but nicer because the scan is symmetrical. What you see is nice Lissajous figures depending on the frequency content of the music.
Christian Gingras
Mmm. Myes, indeed.
Vu meter
120 thumbs up, my most popular comment on youtube. My first experience of a similar way to display music was using an old color TV. There was still a few vacuum tube, in particular a large one with metal cap on top to rectify 25 kv and a bigger one for pulsing at 15 KHz to produce horizontal scan an the high voltage +25 kv.
The CRT was 26 inches, diagonal. It was the old style with the phosphor being dots, not vertical stripes. It used dynamic convergence with 3 electromagnets close to the deflection 'yoke'. A PCB with 16 adjustable resistors allowed to adjust how much current is used to stir each color mostly near the 4 corners.
I disconnected both horizontal and vertical wire from the yoke (like the science fiction pretend: don't adjust your tv, we control the horizontal and vertical...
I used a 6 volt transformer, connected it on the horizontal wires of the yoke.
I connected the vertical to an amplifier, in parallel with the speaker.
Result:
Same as with this laser, except: because of the dynamic convergence, trying to force the red, green and blue to center, the 3 colors were separated but followed similar path. The music was illustrated with these 3 intense, saturated, colors.
Using a more recent CRT, we need to use magnets near the neck to force the color to separate. Otherwise, the convergence is so good that we just see a more boring white trace. It is hard to keep the color saturated in every parts of the screen. Modern CRT are just too good at keeping the 3 colors well aligned with the shadow mask.
You should do something like this but for older/broken smartphones, they can have a lot of interesting uses.
I'd love to use their cameras as Webcams!!!! most webcams are utter shit while smartphone cameras are great!
@@HAWXLEADER problem is the protocol. I can't remember if it was this guy but there was a video about reusing old laptop cameras, the camera itself uses 4 wires that actually follow USB protocol so you can even plug it into a regular computer USB. Cell phone cameras, however, have a completely different set of protocols, both hardware and software with many different pinouts and methods of connecting to a host device. Some cameras like the one for the Google Pixel have sufficient documentation and even have interface boards, however you'll need to do a lot of research to find which one will work. In addition, if you're using it as a USB type webcam then you may be limited by the speed of the USB protocol itself. This is why some cameras for high demand applications (think industrial and manufacturing uses like machine vision) use "Ethernet" cables because of the higher bandwidth and greater reliability.
There's a program on android called IP Webcam, and you can use an older smartphone as a motion activated security camera. It also works with a cloud backup service for $4 a month. You can also put one of those clipon fish-eye lenses on it.
@@pleaseadjustyourtracking6330 I used IP webcam for a few weeks on an older phone and the device kept overheating, bugging out and eventually turning off. After just those few weeks (few hours a day usage) my battery life went down to one fifth of what it used to be.
Its possible to use smartphone cameras as webcams, but in general they were not designed to be used for longer periods, especially while the phone is transmiting that video feed. Newer phones could probably handle it better than my old galaxy S6, but you should still be careful.
@@pleaseadjustyourtracking6330 There's a free app that I have used for years as a security camera called Alfred. Works on both android and IOS. It's brilliant. It has free icloud storage.
A warning for the HDD platters ideas… I discovered recently that small HDD platters can be some kind of delicate glass or something. I dropped one on a hard surface and it shattered into thousands of sharp tiny bits. Not fun to clean up. But if they’re proper metal, should be all good!
I use an old Acer Netbook to improve my music. It's keeping my piano level.
that's deep
Get the speakers
that is Acer's "Highest & Best Use"
You can run Addictive Drums 1.5, pretty good drum VST on hardware like Acer Aspire One. With proper sound card, you can even do basic multitrack music recording on it, and i am sure you can run prettty good sounding VST piano plugins like Acoustica Pianissimo on that machine :)
@@lifescanofslovakiamusicand4802 you didn't get his joke....
Don't forget to save the windows license key. That's can come in handy.
how can you do this? when you view it in the system, it's typically not a real key from what i've seen, especially if the system is the one the computer came with. if you installed it and paid for a license yourself though, its a different story and yes it would be on there... care to explain? im curious how you can do this. thanks in advance .
@@iH85CH001 with the software Windows Product Key Viewer for example
I don't think that's "legal" (depends on where you live), Windows OEM License, the one that comes preinstalled with the device, is supposed to be usable only for that particular device, non transferable. But may still be able to be used and activated in other devices if you try, though this will be "grey" in legal context.
Unless we're talking about windows Retail/FPP license we bought separately from the device, that will come in handy since we have the right to transfer the license to other devices.
@@feelsgoodmanjpg7762 gotchu, will look into that. @fathi, not tryna do anything illegal either lol. Just asking out of curiosity and for educational purposes.
@@iH85CH001 older laptops used to have the windows key (license sticker) on the back. At least most of mine had it back in the windows xp, vista and windows 7 days. Not sure about newer ones (my win10 doesn't have one)
This is actually the first DIY channel where i thought
"Damn i actually might try these!"
TheRageMaker ah yes, he must be mistaken Mr. Mind Reader sir.
@TheRageMaker SORRY FOR THE MISTAKE MISTER! How does the 2020 election turn out mister?
I absolutely applaud you for "reuse and repurpose" and ideas that will keep old laptops out of landfills. Unfortunately this is all above my technical abilities, lol.
save your harddrives at least, the adapter pieces are very cheap and its always good to have extra storage. and they are easy to hook up with no special pieces to desktop motherboards. i'm also really bad with tech but this one i did do.
Regarding old hardware that works only on 32-bit OS: sometimes a virtual machine can be used. 32-bit VM will work fine inside 64-bit host OS, and you can redirect USB (always) and PCI (requires mobo and cpu support) to the VM. I use such setup for an old USB scanner.
Great idea....if you can find 64bit drivers for your old device. :)
The idea is that 32-bit drivers work fine on 32-bit VM that is running inside 64-bit host.
@@Arti9m Not exactly. The idea is that 32bit SOFTWARE will run well in the 32bit VM...inside the 64bit host. I believe the host would still need a 64bit driver for the hardware to be functional in the VM. I could be wrong about this. I haven't dealt with this exact situation myself. Cheers!
I hope I'm wrong and if so, I'm sorry for the the misinformation.
@@PumpkinSeed17 You are wrong and kinda right. You can pass the usb device directly into the VM without having the 64 bit host machine bother with it at all. The only downside is if the hostmachine does like win10 tends to do and autoinstall a driver. Sometimes these drivers can be explicity unsopported by the OS and actually cause crashes and unstability. There are ways around this, but still something to keep in mind if you plug old devices into your pc.
TL;DR: No drivers need to exist on 64 bit host for 32 bit VM.
expected a like " i turned it into 3 coasters or I made a plate out of it for NO REASON but this is actually really well done and not wasteful good on you mate!
Turning an HDD into wind chimes is pretty wasteful. Also he does not mention things such as re-using the Ram, or SSDs etc.
@@jjoke5014 Well he does say to put hard drives into enclosures. Older machines didn't have SSD's but the same would apply.
Mark C Apologies, yes he did say this. However I’m sticking with my point.
I have boxes of harvested parts that I knew I would need one day. Because of this vid I took the course cooling unit and used it for my lighting for my scope. Those led heat up real quick. Now I don't have to worry bout summer temps. This channel rocks
One of the best DYI video's I've ever seen. Especially like the generosity he instills with the projects! well done
I don't know the math on cost efficiency, but this could be a good way to make side money if you have the time and depending on the price and usability of the laptops you pick up. Potentially good for teens as it can also develop electronics skills
it really is a good way of learning and making money at the same time ( schools are quaking )
I have taken apart dozens of old hard drives. The magnets are handy to have around the house, and in the desert, they can be used to find meteorites. I have used the disks to make wind catchers for my wife's wind chimes that have lost them in the wind. They do keep their shine and with a sharp drill bit, you can drill a hole on the disk and run some fish line through it to tie it to the chime, a small wooden ball works to ring the the chimes as the wind twirls the disk.
I know where the IT dept. toss's the old dead laptops, I'm wondering how happy they will be if I helped them out by getting rid of their clutter?
I know where the IT dept. toss's the old dead laptops, I'm wondering how happy they will be if I helped them out by getting rid of their clutter?
This man heard "recycle" once and dedicated his entire life to it
yes
Like mister Burns did when Lisa talked to him about it
Yea. Who knew that Harry Potter was into tech. :3
@@grass-eatingsheepwhen7713 Internet Man 1: "Joke or benign comment."
Internet Man 2: "I hate you."
the 3 R's, man! Recycle, Repair, Reuse!
That heat sink lamp is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen.
just imagin using that lamp
"let me just turn on some light"
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I thought it's a scrappunk
@@zulfikarhidayat2663 Nope. It's cyberpunk.
@@rezlov_ Whenever Cyberpunk is said, Deux ex comes always first to my mind.
Now the Trailer of CP2077 is playing in my head. Thanks!
Great content as always. Just a slight correction, I am a ContaCam user and if you use the motion capture and recording triggers it is extremely resource intensive. So if you plan on using the software and have a slower system please make sure you turn down the recording quality otherwise it will max out the CPU and will crash every few hours.
And here I was just salvaging drives and RAM like an utter amateur
SAME
was just about to throw a laptop out then I found this
I played football with it
@@AtomiK-XIX-Bit gg
"filthy casual"
My grandmothewr gave me an old laptop of hers that I noticed was broken. I'm actually attempting to reuse the LCD screen to have another screen monitor, this gave me more ideas on what to do with the rest of the components :)
where is your profie pic from? i feel like I've seen that character somewhere but I can't remember
@@justarandomgamer6309 may be Mirai Nikki
how is it broken
I can't wait to spill a drink all over my wife's laptop
I hope you live to tell the story
😁😁
wanna try recycling a laptop or wanna get thrashed?
You madlad
unless it's a Thinkpad
2 year. Its been 2 years when I first saw this video and I still watch this every once in a while.
Whenever I get my hands on an old computer, I usually just clean it up, replace the thermal compound, replace the HDD, and put a light "windows-like" Linux distro on it, such as LXLE. If I'm in an extra good mood, and it is a desktop, I might put in like a GT 710 or an HD 6450. Then I either give them to literally anyone I know who needs a PC, or donate them.
ZORIN OS Lite on old laptop's, I literally do same thing 4 ppl young and old, it's a fun hobby and man I love seeing the appreciation from the kids.
These days, so long as it’ll run fortnite the kids’ll love it
@@davidlawrence8711 fortnite barely run on old laptop
try install Arch, you'll see why its both fun and frustrating
Same. Lxle makes old laptops stupidly fast
3:29 the fan on the lamp could also be used as a solder fume extractor
What. wait.. why would you... wait , why would you , what, wannt to extract ... wait, what was the question?
😄
@@jimg5669 why would you want to extract hte toxic fumes of a molten metal? i dont know, can you think of a reason?
@@Robofrog100 that was the joke...
@@Scorpion50o1 Nope He really did not know.
@@Robofrog100 with the way he typed i think hes already got enough toxic fumes in him lol
This is the EXACT CONTENT I've been searching for. I wish there were ten million more videos like this.
Ive just discovered the channel. Everything is perfect about this video: the charming guy, his soothing voice with its lovely British accent, the awesome creative projects and the general motivational message it gives to people who care about the environment
I disassembled like 20 old laptops in my early teens out of pure boredom and destructivity. Ended up using the magnets from disk drives as fridge magnets.
And then, trying to take them away, you accidentally take the fridge door with it😂
I have to say, of course these laptops were already broken or otherwise worthless, I'm not a monster.
@@NickDrawzComix Yeah sorry, didn't realise I was replying, I just saw the comment and had to say so lol
they are my favorite things from old broken hardware
the quality on that mic got me thinking why do i even bother spending so much on headsets
yeaaa, My headset sounds about half that good...
@@jaalan7896 external mics are the way to go if you use a pc
But why do they sound so shitty when still build into a laptop?
@@BigDBoogyWoogy Good mic components aren't too expensive, the quality of the circuits controlling it and isolating it properly can be however, the amp they use in the laptop is also surrounded by electrical equipment so lots of interference.
@@carlholdenart9330 Same reason why most headsets don't sound as good as they should, motherboard is downgrading them quite much.
10:30 For hard drives, even though it may be small in capacity, I use it for backups. As a developer my source code files are pretty small so space is not a concern. Availability is the main concern.
Fr. Really small Drives in EDC saves soo much time
Same, I have a, 500 GB hard disks from my last laptop I use for backup of important data,
If you're a developer and the code is actually important to you, please get a new hard drive, flash storage or an SSD, old hard drives aren't the most reliable for backing up important data.
@@harshlarose6670 or just get 3 old hard drives and be safe through redundancy 😁
I do backup to the cloud. Encrypted and splitted into chunks of files and uploaded to the different cloud provided of course. Offline storage is only for non important things like music or movies, ISOs, or mirror repository.
Apart from the useful ideas you give on this video, i subscribe to you for being such a good person that you thought about giving an older computer to old people who would "just need to acces emails". That's exactly what we did with my grandma and she's happy to get news from family outside the country.
Have a very pleasant day and please, do not change your soul for the usual common trashy ones that spread out in our modern societies. ;-)
Cheers from Switzerland 👍
OH MY GOODNESS. I opened this completely expecting clickbait. This is the definitive DIY video. You've earned my subscription!
"if you have a broken laptop you are in a whole heap of fun"
haha my laptop stopped working, I can finally have so much fun with it!
Nobody.
People who've seen this video:
Yes my laptop broke!
lucky me..I have 2.
@@thebobsmith1444 I have 10
When we do get to Mars, we'll need people like you in the first communities.
He will get us to Mars probably
I hope we won't. What for!? To make such a mess like we do on Earth?
Or you can colonize the forests once civilization dies and then you won't necessarily have to go to Mars
tomas grunwald Because it’s got water it grows plants and really I think we will be on Mars in the next 50 years
@@pugg5ter542 Andy weir's The Martian (Book) Is actually really scientifically accurate and the guy survives for a year and a half on mars.
I haven’t thrown a laptop away since 2005, I’ve been waiting for this video to come in to my life randomly. I’ll still never do any of it, but it’s cool :)
me-*watches this on my perfectly fine newly bought laptop*
also me- "well its lagging a lot nowadays so..."
One always needs a new laptop :D and apparently old laptop(s) too :D
You’re a huge asset to the TH-cam community. Thank you for your interesting and calm videos
m00semanus i couldn’t agree more!
Operative word... calm.
Smashed it bro. The most "contentful" video i have ever seen. You crammed too much into this. Immediately subbed. Keep 'em coming!
Lol is this a meme? Saw someone else comment verbatim exact same on another video. Contentful gave it away!
Same here I subbed immediately. So so useful
Things anyone can make with an old dead laptop and no skill - a cup coaster, a doorstopper, a prop up for other objects, a weight, a weapon, and an old dead laptop in several broken pieces (results depend on how hard you throw or smash it)
Bank: gets a thousand dollar security system; is extremely bad
This lad with a laptop camera
Lol
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This shit the real life hacks not some garbage
The reason that commercial security systems tend to look awful are due to storage constraints rather than the cameras themselves. A company may need to store weeks or even months of 24 hour footage, and video takes up more space as quality increases. The kind of capacity needed for that is expensive even for businesses, especially considering one building may have dozens or even *hundreds* of security cameras, all recording at once, non-stop.
@@boxwithahat there are ways around this, like motion and light detection so its not constantly recording. this would have to be used in low traffic locations too.
The "LED Laptop Screen" can also be used as a replacement backlit keyboard. You can trigger the keyboard to work via USB and order replacement laptop keycaps that are transparent and also be used as backlit keycaps.
bro i am interested in ypur idea can u suggest me any demo video
Save the hinges - nice for building adjustable lamps, lids, and work holders since they hold their position. You can also salvage bluetooth adapters out of some laptops, just like the webcams. Mind the voltage, some run on 3.3v instead of 5. Save the power brick and the laptop's power input jack to power a future project. Some newer laptops also have light sensors and magnetometers that sometimes can be found on little daughter boards. Also, some laptop cases are made of magnesium, which can be a fun metal to experiment with (safely).
In case you make the external monitor, the hinges will be perfect to make it adjustable. You can also try getting the WiFi chips, they might be interchangeable with a laptop that works
This channel is the best in the category. Congrats on turning broken stuff into new one that's actually useful. Keep up the great work mate!
I love the "I can do anything" mindset. It is invigorating, to say the least.
This was really interesting. There are so many gimmicky ways of reusing the parts, but you found some really good ones I've never seen before! Another option for older laptops that still work but are slow, is to put a minimal linux distribution on them and use them kinda like a chromebook.
which version of linux distro do you recommend for older laptops? like dual core 4gb ram?
@@rasaecnai with those specs I think you could run just about any distro. I myself have older laptops with 1 and 2g of ram that I've been trying many distros on trying to find one that suits my needs. Their is an open source equivalent of chrome, just can't think of the name, but primarily uses the older hardware/software for solely internet use. As to not tax the system so much to run slowly.
Modern GNOME and KDE are quite resource intensive. A lighter DE like Xfce will run better on older hardware. Xubuntu is a good option.
I love Linux :)
@@-Savage- chromium os is the open source chrome OS, there's also chromixium.
Bodhi Linux I've always find to be the most lightweight and stable and all around best Linux distribution for old slow computers, it's based on Ubuntu LTS, so it's very solid but the softwares will usually be older.
This is probably one of the best DIY videos on TH-cam
You just earned a sub mate
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Yes im serious...I'm really begging.
If I ever have the need to recommend a DIY channel, I will make sure yours is the first. I am blown away.
This man made me impressed with EVERY SINGLE DIY. Not something that would happen on normal DIY videos nowadays
let us all take a moment of silence for the kid who broke his mom's laptop for this and was never seen again
Lmao underrated comment
f in the chat
@@rommansahak1863 --> Hear Hear! 8 ) . . . never underestimate a mom.
why u so dark bud?
F
Me: There's no way he can make anything out of this crap, that's actually useful.
(20 mins later)
Me: hey does anyone have an old laptop they don't want?
😂😂
i got tons lol, at my job we throw away laptops on a weekly basis
ScareKrow lol you gotta hook me up 😂
Oh look, ANOTHER lame, over used, unoriginal “meme” comment.....😐
Richard Keister 600th like
Liked, subscribed, saved - thank you! Years ago I began making art projects out of old appliances, CDs and DVDs, then old computers. I now have more than 500 (mostly working) outdated computers in my collection, and have been exploring practical and art ideas to put them to good use. Thank you so much for your great ideas and how-tos! I will recommend your channel and visit often.
I applaud your enthusiasm, enginuity and thrifty mindset.
Keep being awesome.
On the last tip (if it for some reasons hasn't been suggested yet) one should add to consider installing a Ubuntu (or derivative) OS, if considering gifting it away as an email reader/browser/writing computer for someone
Some of the distros can make even a dreadfully slow old computer quite usable for simple things like that.
Also, I wish there be DYI videos on learning DYI wood-crafting at home on the budget to make these casings and bodies for the DYI projects.
I have done a lot of wood-crafts when I was younger, but I had professional level equipment, facilities and materials. I wouldn't know where to start trying to do some of that stuff at home on the budget and safely
Agreed. Tiny distros like Puppy can make even the least powerful old computer useful.
9:43 That's actually a REALLY impressive microphone!!!
Please im waiting for your reply pleased
@@elishaprickly6111 ?
@@elishaprickly6111 ?
@@elishaprickly6111 ?
@@elishaprickly6111 ?
I love this!! I like buying bulk broken laptops and seeing what I can fix. These are some great options for the unsavables
These are exactly the ideas I have in mind when dismantling everything but never has it turned out like this man's wtf i think its the accent that gives you power and the ability to sound a lot more intelligent ...and my Texan accent is great for commentating Nascar or perhaps a rodeo ......you sir are basically the tinker God!
I can't explain how i love your videos... It's so relaxing to see how perfect you do everything...
Someone needs to go into the microphone business and recycling business.
Plexiate? In this comment section? its more likely than you think
omg yessss
Sounds fun. May take you up on that.
@@zombiepm4373 Plexiate? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of TH-cam, localized entirely within this comment section?
Why-so the cost of these everyday goods can go through the roof and have people spamming your mailbox with "WE BUY YOUR ITEMS!"
Lazer one was too much cool to be seen for this day man,i love this video
I repurposed my laptop to function as a serving tray.
I use mine to weigh down a box on my work bench. I just placed all the pieces inside and that box will most likely be there for a long time.
@Akira Kurusu nah nothing better then electricity spark on your food
@@KipdoesStuff good best use of that tech
Serving tray
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I LOVE THE CREATIVITY THE MIND YOU PUT IN PROJECTS. INSTEAD OF THROWING THINGS IN TRASH PEOPLE LIKE YOU TEACH US HOW REUSE THEM AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT.
बहुत खूब आपने बहुत अच्छा काम किया है चीजों का सही इस्तेमाल किया है अपनी कल्पनाशीलता का बहुत अच्छा उदाहरण दिया है
LOVE FROM BHARAT(INDIA) 🇮🇳🇮🇳
This guy: I made a microphone out of a laptop that's actually good.
Headset companies: I'm going to pretend I didn't see that.
cheap chinese lavalier microphones are 2$ a pop on aliexpress and most of the time their quality rivals "professional hardware" worth hundreds.
/watch?v=MwWlxKLrZ-w
buying gamer headsets is a meme
Stop buying Chinese products aka communist takeover
Buy American all the way
@@jeaneleretford4635 damn we really be funding the next hitler with our $2 microphones huh
for 30 years tho
I'm using very old laptop as home library for digital documents, private projects, e-books etc. I have two more old laptops for IT training.
Great video!
You edited the mic part so well, that people can't even notice the difference between the reused mic and your recording mic. Good job.
Nape Riggers I mean he did say that he uses an old laptop mic for his recording mic also sooo I mean
Nice username
/s
Everyone after this video : I'm going on Ebay and buying all the cheap and broken laptops
The Gamer Gamer eBay is out time to go to Goodwill
LOL, I already have about 7, for some reason my family never got rid of them.
@@maryroberts6311 😂😂
and wen they have it they keep it in the garage for a diy project they will eventually neva do lol
@@maryroberts6311 Similar situations here. I have about 5 old laptops that I never use. Wish I had half the know-how or tools required to do a couple of these projects.
This guy taught me more in 20 mins then my farther did in 18 years.
Sorry tô ear that
Jayzibbit cropper than not then
keep bragging about having a dad
Well, you just proved that [he: "father"?] didn't teach you well. :-)
That is funny as hell... and sad... lol
You can also use the hard drive mirrored disk as a tool to drill perpendicularly into anything, as a mirror helps greatly to better see the angle of your drillbit. A mechanician friend use this trick quite often.
This is like a 'life hack' video that is actually useful. He even says when one of the ideas is a little silly but still worth mentioning. Nice video!
Beware: this may void your warranty.
What warranty?
*Proceeds to tear laptop apart*
l
LMAO ! ;)
"may" void your warranty, lol!
Me: Proceeds to send in polar bear screen for full screen replacement.
nyuk nyuk!
@@jamieh4086 lol
Really impressive, it's so important to repurpose old things rather than put them in a landfill! Keep the good work going!
Dude! There can't be a better DIY Vid to reuse old laptops, I'm definitely not skipping any ads, you deserve it bro.
These old laptops: exist
My school: state of the art technology!
@Doppelganger XYZ also insane enough to *thumbs* himself
@Doppelganger XYZ i said "Himself" not "yourself"..not talking about u, but him (bruh moment) -_-
"Give it away to an old person..." annnnd now you're the IT support for that same old af laptop for the next 13 years
Give it to a much older person
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@@ronpool6577 that got dark fast
Ron Pool lol XDDDD
That's precisely why you're giving it away! You don't know how to work on it or what to do with it.
there's no such thing as an "old af laptop" you young fuckers are on an impulse scaled timeline, and have no concept or value of what's old.
So I Was Fixing My Room And Those Speaker DIY are very *LIT* man i even added led strips to sync with the current music playing
Everything but the kitchyn sync …
Where can I buy the amplifier circuit board? My laptop has it soldered
@@geetheshbhat hmm i didnt have mine soldered wierd🤔
Ok I don´t really know what to say. This is by far the best DIY video I have ever watched or strike that; the best DIY content ever.
This is contemporary design abd good presentation on how to do it! thank you and keep making quality content of DIY videos on stuff most of people have laying around. This will be a fun weekend project!