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Monday, 5 December 2011

Salvaging an Inkjet Printer (and other broken hardware)

This was interesting enough that I thought it deserved its own post (and even more picturific than the last one).
Like on many occasions while living in the city, I recently found some old broken electronics chucked out of someone's flat before a day when the city council sends round workers to pick up bulky rubbish like broken appliances and furniture (it seems almost nobody knows how to repair things anymore, or they are too busy watching TV to do it).

First I picked up another halogen heater that broke at the base and was produced of even more plastic than the previous one I found, this time made by Hyundai (yes I'm naming names, you wasteful b*stards) yielded another synchronous motor that I could use in a rotary hydroponics prototype.

Were your amazing cars selling so poorly that you had to move into another market of things that break down quickly? The power supply on the left was torn out of something else...