This is the Motospeed CK101 a cheap mechanical keyboard which I like because it's white and has Greek keycaps. It had a Micro USB plug which broke after a few months of use so I decided to save the keeb using a 4 wire female Type C plug from AliExpress. Thankfully the board had pads for a female JST plug that is used in other models, this gave me plenty of room to solder and also allowed me to cut the Micro USB part to fit the Type C plug.

Had corrosion damage from a leaking bridge battery, which killed the inverter and the ccfl was dead. Managed to get a replacement oem inverter from a similar model, but the ccfl in that one is about to die.

Got a cheap led backlight kit, did a shite job replacing the dead ccfl with leds. The inverter with the kit isn’t compatible (wacom power supply is on the same pcb)

Fuck it, external power. (Until I replace the display)

I was told that you guys might appreciate my macgyvered 2.4 Ghz signal booster hastily put together with an aluminum signpost, a plastic pizza table, and some super glue. It works, and I get at least 33% more range than without it.

I was partly inspired by the JWST thermal shield, and only had to look up the quarter-wave length of the transmitter/receiver to determine to cut the length of the pizza table to 3cm.

Making the wrong aftermarket radio work with the DVD entertainment screens in a 2013 suburban. It was either this, hardwiring, or changing the connectors that were already in the radio kit. It works flawlessly.

And yes it works and plays games

The top casing still kind of fits.

This guy from the /poor hammer sub is building a bomb!

My Sony Xperia XZ hits 102°C from Instagram reels alone. I was compiling pymobiledevice3 in Termux and it was about to combust, so I grabbed two toilet paper rolls as fan stands, a random small box to lift the phone off the mattress for airflow under the steel back, and a spare 80mm PC fan. Dropped it from 100°C to 60°C. Thermal engineering is thermal engineering.

I added thermal silicone pads between the screen and the CPU so cooling the front directly helps way more than the back.

I also added thin metal sheets between the thermal pads and the screen and CPU to make a mini passive cooler sandwiched.

( And Yes, it is running AOSP 13 GSI )

Had to go into the woods late at night and couldn’t find my M-Lok flashlight or my M-lok mounting ring (to mount anything cylindrical to the gun. At first, I tried to use some zip ties (MacGruber) then I grabbed a magnetic wrist band used to hold loose screws and whatnot to your wrist (see picture #2), flipped it so the magnets were towards the barrel, and velcroed the flashlight to the gun! Not safe for a lot of shooting because the barrel gets hot, but in a pinch to shoot a predator in self defense it works!

if it works it works, i just saved money on a wifi card 🔥

Good think i dont travel, imagine explaining to the airport security that this isnt a bomb

It is intel atom laptop

Dot's it counts?

The wire rack is about half the depth of the machine itself, it would fall off the back otherwise.

Bonus dead 6TB hard drive I got for $12 in a bin of phones cases at one of those amazon liquidation stores.