Things you can make from old, dead laptops

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[amirulizzad]

The word DIY, Life Hack, and Reuse are thrown around these days on clickbaity videos.

This.... This is THE video that defines the DIY spirit properly. Actual useful items that you would ACTUALLY need, made using recycled product. Bravo, sir.

[WimTon]

Another tip: keep all the screws from the dismantled laptops. They are mostly standardized and come in handy if you loose one

[WreckedRevival]

This guy is basically how I imagined myself when I was a kid taking apart my broken electronics, except things actually work properly lmao.

[PJSproductions]

I worked at a company that made the acrylic backlights for laptops and things. If you're doing the bear project, try to have the part of the cutout that's against the LEDs be in the same orientation as the original backlight was against its LEDs. The optical pattern on the acrylic has a density gradient so that the light will be more even over the whole surface if you do it that way!

[aayanbaig]

Mate now THIS is real diy, unlike 5-minute and all those weird channels.
As the pinned comment says, this defines the DIY spirit correctly.
You take something you cant use, and you make something that solves a problem.
Congratulations! 4 years late, but you've earned yourself a subscriber! I might use your projects to inspire and make some of my own :D

[kamisama]

Me: watches this.
My Laptop: *nervous overheating*

[TAPa]

I can't make up my mind as to whether I prefer the laptop arc, the brass arc, or the fake window arc, but what I do know is that I'm very grateful for all of them. Some of the best stuff on YouTube, hands down.

[zetech]

This channel is 100% just Basically Homeless for adults (and i love both of them equally) This is my favorite part of the internet.

[Termiic]

I seriously, SERIOUSLY did not expect this level of quality content from this video.
The examples shown are the true form of recycling! Especially loved the lamp!

[pleappleappleap]

Your enthusiasm is infectious. Since I started watching you, I've finished a whole bunch of half-done projects.

[lapua]

The backlit panel would also be extremely useful useful for astrophotography calibration frames when stacking images of nebulae, galaxies, star clusters, etc.

[yawniesartonline]

I’ve used this video as my only reference for making my e waste sculpture. It’s been so helpful I feel like I owe you something. I used the screen lamps as two main parts of my sculpture. Thank you!!!! Once the auction for the sculpture is over. I’d love to potentially collaborate on some public art installations. Even just talking with you to hear your insight on it. The recycling community definitely needs more people like you.

[Necrocidal]

I like how this channel actually is "DIY" stuff, not "DIY if you have $250k of sponsor-provided CNC machines"

[ElliotPotts]

This feels like Art Attack for grown-ups!

[GrumpyTyer]

You know, I came back to watch this again for whatever reason and I just like that you aren’t pretentious, and you show what you did. For some things that are difficult, you offer easy alternatives as well.

[amydavis]

I absolutely applaud you for "reuse and repurpose" and ideas that will keep old laptops out of landfills. Unfortunately this is all above my technical abilities, lol.

[AlexTuduran]

This man's house must be quite interesting.

[thicco_]

10:00 i never knew laptop microphones were *THAT* good

[CrossfireCam-Aus]

A warning for the HDD platters ideas… I discovered recently that small HDD platters can be some kind of delicate glass or something. I dropped one on a hard surface and it shattered into thousands of sharp tiny bits. Not fun to clean up. But if they’re proper metal, should be all good!

[RyanVaudrin]

One of the best DYI video's I've ever seen. Especially like the generosity he instills with the projects! well done