Electric Toothbrush Teardown
Just tearing apart an electric toothbrush. Don’t follow my mistakes and you could easily open a similar one and replace the battery or clean the internals or so on.
Plantronics Landline Headset Thing
Teardown of a Plantronics 551 Office Headset System.
Electric Drill Autopsy
Drill stopped working. Was it the brushes? Find out!
Emergency Christmas Lights Repair
A small battery-op Christmas light set on the blink — or rather, not working.
Quick and easy fix!
Wire Love – A Short Stop Motion (4K!)
A very short video to test a new stop motion workflow.
Yes I know the frame rate is too low, I wanted this to go by quickly. Also wire without tack is really hard to work with.
And for all you number people: IT’S IN 4K! YEAH. PIXELS AND STUFF.
DVD Drive Teardown
It’s just a super quick teardown of a generic DVD drive.
Custom Expansion Bay Adapter
Using a USB card reader every time I want to transfer files is annoying. Let’s shove a card reader into my PC with some cardboard!
My PC case only has 5.25in bays, and I have only 3.5in card readers. Instead of buying an adapter, I just make one with cardboard. It sure looks good!
TI-55 Calculator Battery Replacement
How I made my TI-55 calculator work. THE THING HAS AN LED BUBBLE DISPLAY.
Want to breath new life into an old calculator? The TI-55 was one of the best in the line of scientific calculators with statistical capabilities back in the 70’s.
The TI-55 has an LED-stick using LED chips mounted and bonded to the printed circuit board, and has some 12-digits instead of the 9-digits of other calculators from the same time period.
The TI-55 calculator used a rechargeable battery pack rather than using a 9V battery, so when the rechargeable no longer worked, your battery was dead. However, the voltage and current used in the rechargeable works out to be still, 9V capable, so this video shows how one can easily adapt the TI-55 for use with a standard 9V battery.
HP 97 Calculator Restore
Look an HP 97 Calculator! A what? Batteries are shot and the internals are a bit wonk, I fix the inside, make it look great on the outside, and power it up! Then promptly set it on a shelf again. Sorry HP 97 Calculator.
Dell AT-101W “Big Foot” Keyboard Cleaning
Cleaning out my first mechanical keyboard! Picked it up for dirt cheap! A Dell AT-101W, or “Big Foot”
This is a very old video.