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Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by mschuster91 »

Everytime I see electronics like https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/81, I feel like "shit, how incredibly precise have robots become".

Those resistors on the last image, attached to the 3.5mm jack, are 0.3mm wide and 0.5mm high, and spaced together with next-to-zero distance. And yet, the pick+place process was exact enough that the components didn't just melt together.

Awesome.

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by smoyer »

To quote a blog post I wrote in 2006 [1]:

"To be fair to my parents, they did supply a vast supply of love, encouragement with my more sensible interests, pushed me in school (that was a lot of work and would have been much easier if I'd understood my personality type and learning style at the time) and provided an endless supply of items that I could take apart in an effort to satisfy my curiousity of "How this works" (they were especially happy when I became skilled enough to successfully reassemble these items)."

Perhaps it would be a good idea to show how to reassemble the more expensive items. Future parents would be grateful.

[1] - http://codesnipers.com/?q=microivs-making-dreams-come-true

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by sanswork »

smoyer wrote: post #6

To quote a blog post I wrote in 2006 [1]: "To be fair to my parents, they did supply a vast supply of love, encouragement with my more sensible interests, pushed me in school (that was a lot of work and would have been much easier if I'd understood my personality type and learning style at the time) and provided an endless supply of items that I could take apart in an effort to satisfy my curiousity of "How this work…

I still remember the first VCR I actually managed to get back together and working in all its dark wood panelled glory. I moved onto software a few years later to the excitement of my mother since I was a forgetful child with a lot of burn marks on the floor where I'd forgotten or dropped a soldering iron. Computer parts everywhere and a busy phone line were better than the risk of a burnt down house.

Re: Show HN: Take It Apart

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Post by washt »

It would be cool if it had some sort of exchange for the individual parts after tear down. For instance I have an old smart phone with a broken lcd, but I'm sure the other parts are working. If I could use this site to document the teardown and sell or trade the individual components afterward for something I need on current project, that'd be epic.
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