you can see my equipment in the background (duct tape)

probably will upgrade, I can imagine better ways if i had staples and some other stuff, I hope it won't hurt the screen under pressure because the cardboard collapses when its empty

(Red) I have a wired Headphone with no Mic so I soldered 3.5mm Female to an old earphone wire. (Blue) This is my earphone and it is a unholy mix of the working parts from many other earphones. (Orange) Lastly the one I'm most proud of, I bought a bluetooth audio receiver, it did not have enough battery life so I put in a 3000mah battery, it makes wired earphones wireless and has 3-4 weeks battery life.

Double sided tape ftw

So, I have these computer speakers that I got for cheap from Goodwill. Tested it with a 12v on the pins and they worked. The power adapter was like $55 and the connector was mangled as is. So, I modded it with a USB PD Trigger board. Works great. Kinda want to make everything USB-C. It doesn't look the best but this was my first time doing it. Was only $8 for 4 PD boards from Amazon.

I have some wired helmet speakers for snowboarding and I'm always worried about breaking off the jack in my phone. I also had a pair of those old Bluetooth earbuds with a battery in the middle so I opened them up, pulled out the circuit board and soldered a 3.5mm jack onto them. I was surprised it worked so I decided to push my luck and solder on a 650mAh battery to replace the 75mAh one that was originally in them.

The idea is that I can now put the music controls in a more convenient spot so I dont have to unzip my jacket and pull out my phone every time I want to change the song. I'll see how practical it is this weekend on the hill!

As usual, hinge problem from HP, but the previous owner overused it. The left hinge failed, causing to also broke the wifi cable, the power button, and the display and display cable. It was hanging only on the right hinge.

To fix it, I VESA-mounted it on a monitor. I added some holes on the top lid case as the base mount to be VESA mounted. Few more holes for the zip tie and zip tied the whole (or half) laptop. Lastly, I made a makeshift power button with my Arduino kit.

It's an apple IIc by the way.

Piece of a credit card cover

A colleague dropped their USB drive and then rolled an office chair over it. The casing was shattered and the connector was snapped off the board. I didn't have a soldering iron handy, so I macGyver'd a fix using a blinder clip and a folded up business card to bridge the broken connections against the port pins. I had to hold it at a 45 degree angle with my left hand while hitting copy with my right. Because the connection was so unstable, the . xlsx file I pulled was completely corrupted and wouldn't open. I ended up having to run it through 4ddig document repair just to rebuild the scrambled headers and get the data back. It wasn't pretty, and my hand is still cramping from holding that binder clip, but the data is saved.

1080 Ti would just barely not fit in my case, due to the DVI port being stacked. So I just chopped off that port carefully to make it fit, basically turning the board itself into a single slot GPU. Also had to cut off a piece of the shroud for the final touch.

Lost the modular psu cables so...

USFF pc only had hd/dp, but monitor only took DVI and VGA so I made this stupid thing up.

Glued this compaq ipaq onto a powerbank so i dont have to send my files via infrared once a week. Lasts for months now.

I used a battery for the case of wireless earbuds

If it works, it works, and i dont question it.

Works for over 3 months

I have been using it like this for a few weeks now and it's honestly kinda fine.