Hit 100 fixed gadgets in my garage workshop this year

I just counted them all up and it came to exactly 100 items saved from the trash. The one that got me there was a 2008 iPod Classic with a dead hard drive. I swapped in a cheap flash memory board I found online, and it worked on the first try. I used to think these old music players were too far gone to bother with. Has anyone else brought one of those back to life?

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lewis.charlie7d ago

Totally get that feeling of bringing old tech back from the dead. I did the same flash mod on a 5th gen and it felt like magic. Honestly, the hardest part now is finding a decent battery that doesn't swell up in six months. Makes you wonder what other "obsolete" stuff is just one cheap part away from working again.

the_mary7d ago

My buddy lewis.charlie tried to replace a battery in an old laptop and it puffed up like a marshmallow in a campfire. Makes you think half the stuff in a landfill just needs a five dollar capacitor. We're throwing away perfectly good things because some company won't make the one cheap piece anymore.