Adventures of a chip scavenger

Methods

• Pewter as a solder (when you have no tin)
• ✅ Baking: unsoldering chips in an oven
• Plywood PCB
• ❌ POORLY made substitutes for passive components

Scavenges

• Single-board computer from a TV
• PIC16F from a photoepilator
• 8MB SDRAM and 2MB Flash from a DVD player
• ✅ WiFi, 64MB SDRAM and 16MB Flash from a printer
• Can a battery-powered shaver run Doom?
• Mysterious microcontroller in a pet fountain
• Mysterious microcontroller in a foot file
• OB39: Do electrical toothbrushes dream of UART?
• RS08? from a lamp that was a bit too smart