- Title:
- Hardware shenanigans
- Authors:
- Izuru Yakumo
- Date:
- Topics:
- Rants
- Id:
- cm91cg
I have been offline for the span of a week because of a chain of events dating back to the last two to six months.
[How]
My main computer's lid broke apart one day and I had no much choice left but to migrate all of my information to a hard drive, where I installed my OS of choice on it earlier.
While I had managed to repair some old devices of mine, by opening one of them up (Yuitia) one capacitor just got plain gone after I opened the thing, and madness began from that point on.
Tried to transplant one capacitor from the other device's (Chocola) motherboard and failed at that, pulling that one clean off, without the pins, which ended up being stuck to the board. On the second try, I asked my younger sister to desolder the other one from the same board and was successful, though now said board had no way of booting up again.
It took me a long while to solder the replacement back onto it (Yuitia) and managed to succeed.
For SOME reason later I kept fucking around on the power socket and one day it got toasted, making it so I couldn't charge the battery anymore.... My first solution? Tear the power socket on the board apart! Only to then realize many days later that it was a fuse got burnt due to overload.
Given I couldn't just repair it anymore now, I took the other one's (Chocola) board and resoldered the capacitors back, though I used a different one given the incident with the 2nd one earlier. Took me days to actually do so. When I succeded, I rebuilt it all save for the plastic stuff and attempted to put a battery to charge... while the idea worked, the peripheral board of the machine got somehow screwed up when I tried to finish rebuilding it (the computer) so I replaced it with a spare (Chocola's) only to notice.... this board's power socket got toasted as well. Fast forward to my complete frustration later and in a fit of rage, I broke one of the boards by throwing it like a freesbee to the wall while shouting "MUDA!"[1] twice.
I had a trump card three days ago which was returning my Raspberry Pi 3 to the school where I took it from and getting an old computer (VIVIT-r) as exchange. Never expected it would work at all, but it did, and this is where I'm writing this post from.
In short, electronics is not my field, computing is.
[1]: Translator's note: "Futile" or "Useless" in Japanese