diy - DIY & Electronics

I tried to fix my Wii. I had three extra screws and a broken Wii.

I messed up the screen cables and connections of an old laptop, but I'm gonna use it without a screen when I build a house for it, sometime in the future.

I had a pretty newish firefox OS phone, and flashed it with a wrong rom. Repair centre wanted to install new motherboard that would have costed me the same as a new phone so I'm waiting for a b2g build to save it.

>>720
you mightve messed up badly when you put that ram on an electrically conductive surface. whats wrong with your keyboard, now??

Due to the bad habit of holding things in my mouth, I've eaten a jumper or two.

>>847
>some keys just stopped working. I thought that it was a model like in the first pic, but instead it was like the other pic. So when I washed it some water entered inside and short circuited it. I managed to take it out in the end, but some keys just refuse to work.

I just bought a new one in the end

i had this old usb hub with fans attached that didnt work properly

i attached a power unit i had lying around

it fried my 1500$ laptop

so what you did harmless compared to that

>>720
First time I tried to partion my hdd for winXP/Debian I ended up over writing the master boot loader and not installing grub. Couldn't figure out how to fix it and had to wipe/reinstall everything.

Learned from it though.

>>852
That's how I learnt most of my way around linux when I first started using it; by breaking everything. Often in an attempt to fix something. Did a lot of reinstalling and reconfiguring. The repetition helped a lot in remembering.

>>856
Yeah this is basically my relationship with Arch Linux. I'm currently running either CentOS or Fedora on all my computers, but every couple of months I'll be overcome with an abundance of free time and an urge to install Arch Linux. I'll set up everything perfectly and be going good for about a month, and then render the system unbootable trying to fix some small niggly thing (I think the last time it was downgrading Xorg so I could install the proprietary AMD drivers to get rid of ghosting when moving around translucent windows in openbox). You'd think I'd put some revision control system in place, but no.

As to stupid mistakes I've made, I remember trying to flash an Xbox 360 with a LiteOn drive using an 80W soldering iron and crappy solder.