[Noisebridge-discuss] New donations!
Jean-Luc Picard
atari2600a at gmail.com
Sat Nov 23 21:53:27 UTC 2013
Just the fan; the HDD's still there. They said they had no
confidential data on the machine & I was all whatevs. All it needs is
one of those a-little-larger-than-atx-screw-on fans that goes in the
Dell(TM) PowerFunnel(R) & maybe a rubber bushing since I broke one on
parts removal, but scotch tape would suffice just as well.
There's a possibility the mobo is the reason the fan isn't spinning but
I find this unlikely.
Also, the laptops have useful optical drives, SO-DIMMS, screens, but
okay, I'll gut before donation next time a client brings me a totalled
machine for donation. The reflow laptop would be great surface-mount
soldering practice for NB anyways! We have the heat gun, we just need
one of those surface solder kits & some sets of balls! The towel trick
might even work but good luck getting it to work more than 1 reboot.
On 11/23/2013 10:55 AM, John Ellis wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> I think your a little off-base here although I do think e-waste at
> Noisebridge can be a problem. Dropping unusable stuff like busted CRT
> monitors to make them NBs recycling burden would be pushing it.
>
> The Dell desktop could probably be repaired with parts laying around.
> HDD and replacement fan, good to go. Headless PCs can still be useful.
>
> The laptops, depending on age, may be useful for a staving hacker to
> use for parts to repair their existing laptop. This actually can
> reduce overall ewaste. Isn't there a group at NB that does electronic
> strip-down and re-use of electronics? Ideally, re-use not recycle is
> better for the ewaste situation and environment in general.
>
> Another idea which may be semi-practical is creating LCD
> drivers/controllers so old LCDs can be reused as working displays.
> I've seen various suppliers make LCD testers which do
> a vaguely similar function. Power up an LCD and confirm it displays
> properly, away from the host laptop setup.
>
> Also, wasn't Jim involved in actually removing ewaste to recycling.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> PS. Jean-Luc, if the Dell Desktop is still available and unwanted at
> NB, I'll take it off your hands to use as a dev/test box.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Al Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com
> <mailto:asweigart at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> We appreciate your intent, but if the computers don't turn on,
> then they'll just sit around for months until we throw them away
> (and e-waste disposal is not free). Please don't donate broken stuff.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Jean-Luc Picard
> <atari2600a at gmail.com <mailto:atari2600a at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> As usual, I'm attempting to pay an equivalent of an associate
> membership fee w/ donations from home or work. This is
> actually the first time I've announced that I do this at all
> on the lists but here I am doing it anyway.
>
> Dell desktop -- runs XP, needs new CPU fan but should boot
> right up otherwise. Do the Administrator trick or run
> ophcrack to get in.
> Dell laptop -- annoying as hell to get to the internals.
> Needs new HDD, chips reflowed.
> Compaq laptop -- Won't turn on. I tried popping both
> batteries & draining the caps. Afterwards I tore out the HDD
> for a secure destruction of the data as instructed by my client.
>
> All this should come out to about $20 in salvageable parts
> (DIMMS, fans, HDD's, etc). Expect to hear from me in another
> month, when I'll probably have more stuff to donate.
>
> FYI: my past donations have been more functional; mostly
> SO-DIMMS, broken ipods w/ guttable HDD's, etc. You know,
> things that don't last a week in Noisebridge.
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