I want my MP3

13 responses to “I want my MP3”

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   BenODen

   Mar 11, 2005 at 5:12 am

   *laugh* I see that goulish grin as you view your autopsy!

   Cool picture, though. How much did you have to remove to get to the bare platters? That’s an inch across, right?

   [ed. Ohyea, 2.5 inches, like a laptop.. Not ipod mini sized…]

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   Drew__

   Mar 11, 2005 at 5:46 am

   nice one.. i like it!!

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   angry shock

   Mar 11, 2005 at 6:05 am

   A Gipsy said that the MP3 is yours. Go ask yourself if you don´t believe me, but, please: Not in my name.

   Da tipsy Gi(psy) =P

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   Nell M

   Mar 11, 2005 at 10:23 am

   My favorite part is the smile.

   What do you do with all the stuff you dissect? Do you put it back together, throw it away or use it to create something else?

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   The Rocketeer

   Mar 11, 2005 at 12:02 pm

   I agree with Nell… nice smile.

   I hate to see good gadgets gone bad. I used to tear apart broken gadgets to see if I could reuse any components. Since surface mount technology… there’s a lot fewer reuseable parts inside gadgets.

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   splorp

   Mar 11, 2005 at 3:08 pm

   …there’s a lot fewer reuseable parts inside gadgets

   Well, a lot fewer electronic parts perhaps. For all the parts I’ve salvaged from disused gear, I swear I’ll never have to buy another microscrew or dielectric washer for the rest of my life.

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   jurvetson

   Mar 11, 2005 at 9:13 pm

   Ben: Once I had the case open, to get to the bare drive platters was just 6 screws (and a warranty voiding sticker =) For the other 2.5” drives on my shelf, I see 6 screws for Hitachi, 5 for Toshiba, and 4 for Quantum.

   Nell: They mainly become toys or display art (at the office or at home). They are typically broken beyond repair; in this case, a colleague of mine accidentally passed this MP3 player through the clothes washer and dryer…

   Splorp & Rocketeer: yup, and beyond reuse, with greater integration, there is less colorful variety in the components. The wire harness from a 1980 era Trinitron or VCR is still a work of art…. We took an old VCR apart last weekend. So much to play with…. 😉

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8. 

   finicky whistle

   Mar 11, 2005 at 9:25 pm

   hahaaa
   u just luuuv 2 take it apart huh?!
   gr8 shot
   :p

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9. 

   zenera

   Mar 11, 2005 at 9:28 pm

   mp3 in dire straits…if it is recuperable, here’s an idea

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10. 

    ablaze curtain

    Mar 12, 2005 at 9:15 am

    Oh man, you don’t need to dissect the whole thing to get a mirror self portrait. Use a mirror!

    🙂

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    Nell M

    Mar 18, 2005 at 10:41 am

    Ohh. I thought all of all these gadgets were yours.

    Poor mp3 player. I wonder if it came out all fluffy from the dryer 😛

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    jurvetson

    Mar 18, 2005 at 6:20 pm

    pat is fact: Take things apart? Oh yes. I have luv’d that my whole life.

    z: good catch on the title allusion. As for recycling the memory, this Rio has a disc drive, not a memory card… and when the inner platter is exposed to air, it’s pretty much toast. The head flies so close to the spinning disc that any dust particle would cause a head crash.

    Kren: a mirror? OK! =)

    Nell: Almost all of the prior gadgets were mine. A couple weeks ago, I sent an email to everyone at work to save their broken gadgets.

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13. 

    AM08098 photography

    Apr 18, 2007 at 12:55 am

    very cool the harddrive is breath taking i cant believe you take all these things apart are they used and broken when you dismantel them?

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