Back in my early days, in my electronic hobby, I would stop by my local TV “repair shop” to see if they had any junk radios or tv’s from which I could salvage parts for my projects; they seldom did. Today, there are very few electronic hobbyists but the amount of amazing parts that are available for scrounging is astounding! With today’s common electronic scrap you can literally build computer devices that would have been unimaginable just 2 or 3 decades ago!
@@stevesummers438 : I totally agree, the potential for learning from disassembly is incredible! I have my own electronic design service now and I still take commonly scrapped devices apart to be educated by new and different design techniques. Also, just because an electronic device has been scrapped doesn’t mean the components in it have no value. It is easy to salvage hundreds of dollars of useful components in a few minutes of dumpster diving followed by a short time with a soldering iron.
Saw this live, and it was absolutely brilliant. For more information go to noisytoys.org.
Back in my early days, in my electronic hobby, I would stop by my local TV “repair shop” to see if they had any junk radios or tv’s from which I could salvage parts for my projects; they seldom did. Today, there are very few electronic hobbyists but the amount of amazing parts that are available for scrounging is astounding! With today’s common electronic scrap you can literally build computer devices that would have been unimaginable just 2 or 3 decades ago!
Exactly- it's a massive free resource. Even if you have no electronics skills you can start to learn a lot by taking stuff apart.
@@stevesummers438 : I totally agree, the potential for learning from disassembly is incredible! I have my own electronic design service now and I still take commonly scrapped devices apart to be educated by new and different design techniques. Also, just because an electronic device has been scrapped doesn’t mean the components in it have no value. It is easy to salvage hundreds of dollars of useful components in a few minutes of dumpster diving followed by a short time with a soldering iron.
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