Taking Things Apart

[ServCarpenter]

Hey I am a 15 year old kid and loving taking electronics apart! I have
taken apart and rebuilt 2 laptops, and made my own Desktop PC, I've
taken apart 4 Different Gameboys, My 3 CD players, fixed one, and
multiple Calculators and miniature games. I was wondering, is there a
site were people contribute on how they took things apart, possibly
with pictures? If not, I was thinking of making one so that people
could take things apart and take pictures for others to see what do you
think?

 

[Ray L. Volts]

Hey I am a 15 year old kid and loving taking electronics apart! I have
taken apart and rebuilt 2 laptops, and made my own Desktop PC, I've
taken apart 4 Different Gameboys, My 3 CD players, fixed one, and
multiple Calculators and miniature games. I was wondering, is there a
site were people contribute on how they took things apart, possibly
with pictures? If not, I was thinking of making one so that people
could take things apart and take pictures for others to see what do you
think?

That's how a lot of us got started, in addition to building things in kit
form.
If you don't find a site to your liking, you could create a freebie yahoo or
msn group just for this purpose. They give ya plenty of space for storing
pics and posting messages. Good luck and happy tinkering!

 

[James Sweet]

Hey I am a 15 year old kid and loving taking electronics apart! I have
taken apart and rebuilt 2 laptops, and made my own Desktop PC, I've
taken apart 4 Different Gameboys, My 3 CD players, fixed one, and
multiple Calculators and miniature games. I was wondering, is there a
site were people contribute on how they took things apart, possibly
with pictures? If not, I was thinking of making one so that people
could take things apart and take pictures for others to see what do you
think?

www.howstuffworks.com has quite a bit of info of this sort on it,
careful though, it's easy to get sucked in for hours.

 

[Sam Goldwasser]

Hey I am a 15 year old kid and loving taking electronics apart! I have
taken apart and rebuilt 2 laptops, and made my own Desktop PC, I've
taken apart 4 Different Gameboys, My 3 CD players, fixed one, and
multiple Calculators and miniature games. I was wondering, is there a
site were people contribute on how they took things apart, possibly
with pictures? If not, I was thinking of making one so that people
could take things apart and take pictures for others to see what do you
think?

Sounds good to me. That's how many of us got started.

Now you have the Internet!

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[[email protected]]

You're one of what seems to be a dying breed.

I wish more engineering students felt this way. Most of them today have
never bothered to take something apart to see what was inside. It makes
me wonder what posessed them to study engineering in the first place.

Keep it up! You may be driving your parents crazy, but you're picking
up skills and experience that will be incredibly valuable to you some
day if you enter a technical career. And even if you decide to live
your life as a fisherman or a sculptor, you'll still have a great
hobby.

 

[Sam Goldwasser]

You're one of what seems to be a dying breed.

I wish more engineering students felt this way. Most of them today have
never bothered to take something apart to see what was inside. It makes
me wonder what posessed them to study engineering in the first place.

Keep it up! You may be driving your parents crazy, but you're picking
up skills and experience that will be incredibly valuable to you some
day if you enter a technical career. And even if you decide to live
your life as a fisherman or a sculptor, you'll still have a great
hobby.

And Universities don't help. Many EE departments think that doing
computer simulations is equivalent to hands-on experience. Remember
all those ideal inductors?

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[Arfa Daily]

Hey I am a 15 year old kid and loving taking electronics apart! I have
taken apart and rebuilt 2 laptops, and made my own Desktop PC, I've
taken apart 4 Different Gameboys, My 3 CD players, fixed one, and
multiple Calculators and miniature games. I was wondering, is there a
site were people contribute on how they took things apart, possibly
with pictures? If not, I was thinking of making one so that people
could take things apart and take pictures for others to see what do you
think?

Have you considered getting yourself an amateur radio license ? Thre's still
a lot of us that are genuinely technical, and are happy to see new
technically minded licensees come on the air. You get to talk to a bunch of
friendly people, world wide, and also get to have the satisfaction of making
those contacts either on kit you wholly built yourself, or at least using
accessories and antennas that you built for yourself. Great way to pursue
your hobby and interest, and meet new people as well.

Arfa

 

[Puckdropper]

Hey I am a 15 year old kid and loving taking electronics apart! I have
taken apart and rebuilt 2 laptops, and made my own Desktop PC, I've
taken apart 4 Different Gameboys, My 3 CD players, fixed one, and
multiple Calculators and miniature games. I was wondering, is there a
site were people contribute on how they took things apart, possibly
with pictures? If not, I was thinking of making one so that people
could take things apart and take pictures for others to see what do you
think?

There are some sites out there like that, but they're usually device-
specific.

For example, this is the Apple Newton 2000/2100 disassembly guide:
http://www.pda-soft.de/body_2x00_disassemble.html

Comments usually to go to the email group list that many Newton users
know about. (NewtonTalk.)

Puckdropper
--
www.uncreativelabs.net

Old computers are getting to be a lost art. Here at Uncreative Labs, we
still enjoy using the old computers. Sometimes we want to see how far a
particular system can go, other times we use a stock system to remind
ourselves of what we once had.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

 

[Skype_man]

Man, I wish we had the gear available to work on, back when I
was your age! Seems like your'e on the right track, & doing very
well already! Good for you! Keep in mind, soon...there will be
little need for repair people, in T.V., VCR...if they still have them.
I still love it, & hope you stick with it, but try to get another
trade also, even related to what your'e doing now, because you
WILL NOT make a lot of money at it. Learn computers, PLC,
three phase frequecny drives, some electrical, & study, study,
study, on your own. I'll send you some great sites, when I dig
them out. You will be floored by what you can learn online, &
from the guys here. Also check out these newsgroups. There
lots of posts with sites to look up. BE CAREFUL not to get
electrocuted!!! Alway discharge (with the unit unplugged), the
main filter capacitors. Take care, Sky.

sci.electronics.repair, misc, equipment, design, components,
basics, & sci.electronics.

 

[sck0006]

You're one of what seems to be a dying breed.

I wish more engineering students felt this way. Most of them today have
never bothered to take something apart to see what was inside. It makes
me wonder what posessed them to study engineering in the first place.

Keep it up! You may be driving your parents crazy, but you're picking
up skills and experience that will be incredibly valuable to you some
day if you enter a technical career. And even if you decide to live
your life as a fisherman or a sculptor, you'll still have a great
hobby.

I agree. I just finished school a year ago, and none of the students
with the exception of one or two seemed to even care about
electronics. Most of them were in it because they thought they could
make lots of easy money. I've always been a tinkerer, starting out
very similarly to what the o.p. stated, , and I admit I was
disappointed when I finished school, both in the lack of interest in
the future generations of engineers and for the lack of demand for
people like us, but seeing websites such as Mike's Electric Stuff and
Power Labs reminded me there is hope. I knew repair shops were on the
downhill, seeing many of the close around me steered me towards other
fields, but I found a cal lab that does repair work, so now I'm a
calibration/repair tech and I couldn't be happier. I get to work
with expensive equipment all day that I'd otherwise have no exposure
to, and get to fix much of it. There is still some hope out there,
but hobbyists are quickly dying.

I've gone off babbling,...

Steve

 

[Mark]

go for it...and don't get discouraged....

I took apart and broke lots of stuff for good before I managed to
actually "fix" something....

Mark

 

[James Sweet]

go for it...and don't get discouraged....

I took apart and broke lots of stuff for good before I managed to
actually "fix" something....

Mark

Well the time has never been better to get stuff to practice on, every
day more and more equipment is getting junked due to trivial problems.

 

[Dana]

I agree. I am a blind person and I started out that way. I was always
curious how things worked.

 

[Dana]

Yep, great idea. I got my amateur ticket when i was about 11 or so.

 

[Asimov]

"Dana" bravely wrote to "All" (26 Nov 05 21:57:50)
--- on the heady topic of "Re: Taking Things Apart"

Da> From: Dana <[email protected]>
Da> Xref: core-easynews sci.electronics.repair:349652

Da> I agree. I am a blind person and I started out that way. I was always
Da> curious how things worked.

Don't mean to be insulting, but please indulge a small personal
question, which wire do you cut, the red wire or the blue wire?

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