Things you have fixed/modded recently

[Viri]

Currently buying parts to mod a GBS8200 for GBS-Control. I plan to mod 4 of them, so I can have one for each retro console. They're pretty cheap on Aliexpress, like 8 dollars for each board.

 

[The_Dizzy_Vizzy]

Currently buying parts to mod a GBS8200 for GBS-Control. I plan to mod 4 of them, so I can have one for each retro console. They're pretty cheap on Aliexpress, like 8 dollars for each board.

Awesome! Could you explialn that in more detail? That sounds terrific!

 

[Viri]

Awesome! Could you explialn that in more detail? That sounds terrific!

He sums it up pretty well at the start. I basically used his video as a tutorial.

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I really should have bought more when I had the chance. lol

 

[Dark_Ansem]

wow that's some order number

 

[zxr750j]

Piggybacked the lighter fuse to power my 12V to USB converter in the fusebox of my car (mini r55)

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this now powers my dashcam and phoneholder/charger.
instead of and loose wires across my dash to the actual lightersocket thing.

 

[Veho]

I fixed the stupid button on my stupid coffee grinder... again.

It's a pretty decent grinder... except for the power button, which is complete and absolute garbage. Not the actual power switch, that's a board-mounted push button deep inside the grinder. This is just a chunk of plastic, a glorified keycap, only worse.

It's mounted on the casing by a protrusion, a length of leaf spring-acting plastic that is molded into the button itself, and made of the same horrible brittle plastic that feels sturdy when pressed, and takes on metallic paint really well, but isn't elastic in the least. Think about that for a moment. A leaf spring... that isn't elastic. So it's the first thing to go. Now that wouldn't be a problem if the button was in some guides or rails or something, the push button behind it is springy enough to return it to a neutral position. But it's not held in place by anything other than the made-to-break protrusion. And once it breaks, the button falls into the housing and disappears. The grinder still works, why wouldn't it, but operating it feels like an evening with uremum, in that I have to spend a significant amount of time fingering the hole and searching for the G spot in order to turn it on and have it grind on me. Giggidy.

Anyway, I fixed it. #grindset

 

[DinohScene]

Replaced the logic board caps on one of my Macintosh Classics.

 

[JuanMena]

Fixed Audio not coming from 3.5mm Jack in "my" SMASNUG Galaxy A03:

Connecting earbuds didnt routed sound through them, issue was cold solder points.

 

[The_Dizzy_Vizzy]

He sums it up pretty well at the start. I basically used his video as a tutorial.

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I really should have bought more when I had the chance. lol

Hey man thanks for that!!! I'm watching that video right now.

I'm SOMEWHAT of a retro-gamer, as I still have my original PS1, Dreamcast and other consoles from the 2000's. I don't really consider the 90's to be retro-gaming, it all seems too damned close to now, and firing up a PlayStation doesn't really make for nostalgia (at least not in my case, and I'm 55 years old.).

However, I do own 1 console that is definitely retro and provides all the nostalgia I could possibly want, because I owned 2 of these consoles as a kid from 1982-83, an Atari 5200 SuperSystem.

But I'd like one of these units and create a gaming station. I see these things all over, but I've never really looked into making one of these systems until now.

Thanks for that!

 

[ciaomao]

Today my vintage chainsaw died. After I unscrewed it, it turned out that a screw had simply come loose from the AC switch. That was quickly repaired. Unfortunately, I then tested it open. The motor came loose and destroyed the carbon brush springs. In true Mc Gyver style, I was able to replace them with springs of a ballpoint pen. Hopefully it will now run again for the next few years.

 

[hippy dave]

I just modded a Wear OS watch face, to remove the A/P symbol that it was displaying even though that's unnecessary as it's displaying 24-hour time.

Modifying the files and putting them back into the .apk (android app installer file which is actually a renamed .zip file) was easy.
Remembering to save the changes was apparently harder.
Noticing that the archive utility had saved it as .zip instead of .apk was super hard.

But we got there

This is the watch face

Now it looks like this

Whoop de do, amirite?

 

[AncientBoi]

With the help from @SylverReZ I was able to fix this error code on my Asus R640N Linux Mint [cininamon flavored OS] Laptop.

Seems it didn't like doing "Fast Boot" at start up. Which I didn't even set it up as that. I only ran it's own set up.

Either way,

 

[Jayro]

I don't want to ruin the surprise until all my parts get here and I can assemble what I'm working on, but... It involves this very board right here:

 

[AncientBoi]

This is more of an "I'm about to do something I'm very afraid of" kinna thing. Read all the articles and watched all the videos into taking my Dell Precision M4600 Workstation Laptop totally apart, [as they all said] just to replace this little broken Power Jack Today

 

[slaphappygamer]

I don't want to ruin the surprise until all my parts get here and I can assemble what I'm working on, but... It involves this very board right here:

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That'll be fun to see.

 

[zekro94]

This is more of an "I'm about to do something I'm very afraid of" kinna thing. Read all the articles and watched all the videos into taking my Dell Precision M4600 Workstation Laptop totally apart, [as they all said] just to replace this little broken Power Jack Today

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You can do it, just do it slowly and find a dissassembly guide or how to replace guide and follow it. I have a laptop that needs the motherboard to be taken out in order to change the ram, it's a pain in the ass since I have to take the whole laptop apart just for that. Damn you Asus

 

[AncientBoi]

This is more of an "I'm about to do something I'm very afraid of" kinna thing. Read all the articles and watched all the videos into taking my Dell Precision M4600 Workstation Laptop totally apart, [as they all said] just to replace this little broken Power Jack Today

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Update:

uhh, oops

 

[tech3475]

I'm still in the middle of testing it.....but I think I kludged my TV with cellotape.

No really, my TV had developed a fault where black horizontal lines went across the screen.

I looked around I found a potential fix by putting some tape on the ribbon cable....after some attempts I got the lines to dissappear.

I don't consider this a true fix, but it's at least usable now for watching video.

 

[hippy dave]

I hadn't been using the original green faceplate that came with the (very) used green Game Boy Micro I bought some years ago, because it had some distracting scratches in the screen area. And of course, Nintendo never sold replacement green plates, and China doesn't make aftermarket ones.

Was recently reading discussion on Reddit about polishing out scratches from faceplates, they were talking about using different grades of sandpaper to start with if the scratches were deep, but then finishing off with Polywatch, which is designed for polishing scratches out of plastic watch faces. I wasn't aware of that stuff before, and decided to give it a go - gave the sandpaper a miss as the scratches didn't seem too deep and that seemed like a bigger risk of making more of a mess anyway.

So I gave the faceplate a good polish with some cotton buds and the Polywatch (I'm assuming it's got really super-fine abrasive crystals in the liquid), and it's done a good job. I knew it would never end up perfect, and if you hold it up at an angle to the light, you can see where it's been polished, but for actually using it on the GBM it looks great, and no distracting scratches drawing the attention any more.

Green ftw tbh

 

[XFoxPrower]

Neat. Can't find the scratch. Maybe I can add some shape back to some analog sticks somethow. The GBA Micro has lowercase buttons Ew. Guess it lives up to its name though.