Ok, it’s been a while since the last post. I’ve had to unfortunately scale back a number of my projects these last months since I’m now what I like to call ” self employed ” and what everyone else calls ” unemployed “. Eh, potato, tomato I’d say.

Anyhoo. My latest fix for one of my broken things, this time being my glasses, was inspired from an issue of MAKE from a few years ago. The article was about functional body modification and featured glasses that were ” floating ” on the bridge of someones nose, held in place with some magnets from a piercing.

I didn’t really feel like getting blood all over the floor and everything else in my apartment this time and decided to go with a less permanant fix. I instead used these items to recreate the same effect.
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* broken glasses T_T
* spirit gum
* velcro wire wrap
* super glue

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floating glasses

Floating glasses

Floating glasses

I cut out a piece of  velcro wire wrap, grippy  side facing out, to fit exactly over the nose bridge area of the glasses and secured it in place with the super glue.
I then cut another piece of velcro wire wrap the exact shape of last, and then placed against the piece that had just been mounted on the glasses. The side that would now make contact with the skin will be better held in place by the spirit gum, and is now also more easily replaceable.

Finally I simply brushed an adequate ammount of spirit gum across the newly mounted velcro wire wrap where I wanted the glasses to hang from and held them firmly in place for about 3 - 4 minutes.

Happy hacking.

- satat

You know, I just wanted to fuck with my wifi antennas. Is that too much to ask, Dell? That if I fiddle with my antennas and have to take apart the lcd/hinge to get at them, that it should be able to go back together?! I’ve heard that same complaint from a number of other hardware hackers about the Vostro 1000, so it’s not just me being fuck-tarded and breaking my stuff due to my sheer ability of stupid. ( it’s a $400 business laptop from Dell Dell Vostro specs and review  )

Here is my solution for the damn hinges not working anymore … it is better then having to hold the screen up with one hand and <insert computer related task> with the other.

Vostro 1000

All I used to fix this was ::

+ some trimmings from a roll of velcro wire wrap

+ some super glue

I added two small strips to the side of LCD where the rubber bits should have been. ( if I hadn’t ripped them off ) I then added two long strips along the side of the keyboard for a large selection of screen angles. To finish, I cut two strips of the same length, about 8 or 9 inches long, then connected one end of the velcro strips to the velcro bits on each side of the screen. The other end of the strips get velcroed to a specified angle onto the adjustment strips.

vostro 1000

vostro 1000

- satat