Category Archives: DIY

Replacing the hinges on my Lenovo IdeaPad Y530

There I was, minding my own business, doing something uber productive (like stumbling or something), when suddenly the screen on my laptop went *smack!* against my legs. In other words, the screen decided it was tired of being told where to be and it was going to just flop around wherever gravity would take it. [...]

Posted in | Comments closed

Phone charger caddy thing

A few months ago my wife and I got a bad case of insomnia, so we decided to create a cell phone charger caddy thing. Basically it is a little phone holder that sits on your phone charger plug, so you don’t have to set your phone on the floor. We used a piece of [...]

Posted in | Comments closed

Boo-ing Your Neighbors

Boo-ed

For Family Home Evening on 10/3 my family decided to “boo” a few friends. I don’t know how popular this is where you live, but where I grew up in Folsom, CA, this is the thing to do in October. Pretty much everyone I knew would get boo-ed by Halloween. The premise is pretty simple: put [...]

Posted in | Comments closed

8-bit Crafts

A long time ago, in a work place far far away, a co-worker gave me some Perler beads. They’ve been sitting in my game cupboard for years, but my wife finally found something fun for me to do with them: make re-creations of 8-bit sprites! For my first attempt, I’ve made a fire flower from [...]

Posted in | Comments closed

Fixing the digitizer on a Samsung Rogue

My touch screen on my wife’s Samsung Rogue U960 recently stopped working. There were no cracks or other visible damage, but it didn’t recognize touches on the left third of the screen. Because the phone was designed to be used almost exclusively by touching the screen, this made the phone pretty much useless for anything [...]

Also posted in Electronics | Comments closed