Destructions? What?
When my electrical goods break I don't just throw them out, I take them apart and salvage some of the interesting bits in them (as well as take lots of photos). Its a lot better than filling up my local dump and it means I get to have a full junk box =].
If you want higher quality images or to enquire about a specific part number on one of the circuit boards, please don't hesitate to contact me.
The Bits
| Image | Product | Description | RRP | Photos | Date Photos Taken |
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Cheap MP3 Player | My first MP3 player. It had 128MB of flash memory - as much as I could afford in 2003. | £35.99 | 6 | ? |
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Olivetti P100D Laptop | Damaged BIOS - booted to about three lines of POST and then hung. I got given it as it was no longer needed. | ? | 7 | 8th April 2005 |
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Samsung T100 | The phone did not power up. I got this free from a friend when it stopped working. | ? | 2 | 12th May 2005 |
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Nokia 3510i | My trusty Nokia phone. By the time it finally broke it was wrapped with duct and insulating tape. It also went through the wash twice; needless to say, it was a hardy phone! | £74.99 | 2 | 12th November 2005 |
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Umax Astra-Pix 420 | My very first digital camera, back in 2001. Everything in it is controlled by the most humongous ASIC I have ever seen - a Sound Vision 'Clarity 2' chip. The price is astonishing for what it was, though I can guarantee you that it was the best value for money then. | £54.99 | 8 | 22nd December 2005 |
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Vodafone MN-1 | Another non-booting phone. A very old OEM model from Vodafone. | ? | 15 | 22nd Dec 2006 |
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Sony MZNH-600 Minidisc Recorder | The thing stopped writing - it would make a loud grinding noise and corrupt the data on the disk. It kept reading my old discs for a while, however. | £70.99 | 22 | 25th January 2007 |
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NEC e228 | My last phone. The battery slowly died and replacements are more than the cost of a new phone. | ? | 7 | 13th May 2007 |