{"id":8,"date":"2014-11-06T01:46:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T01:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parablog-wordpress.dockerbox.rei.moe\/?p=8"},"modified":"2014-11-06T04:19:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T04:19:32","slug":"harvesting-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting components!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I had my first go at harvesting electrical components from junk PCBs I had lying around my room.
\nI found what used to be an optical mouse. But was now just sitting on a pile of junk and cables<\/p>\n

I was hoping to find a 0.1microFarad capacitor to perform a mod on a USB to serial adapter I have for programming my arduino mini pro clones, to add auto reset.
\nWhile I’m getting pretty damn good at releasing the reset button at the right time, I would prefer to just hit upload!<\/p>\n

So I looked all over this little PCB and was in luck! I found a 104 capacitor!
\n(I had looked over an old PCI fax modem before this and no luck)<\/p>\n

So how I went about it was by holding components upright with needle nose pliers,
\nThen heating \/ melting the solder on their connections, until the weight of the PCB pulls the components through.
\nThis kept the legs pretty free from excess solder too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I got some switches, an LED, some resistors and some capacitors!
\nI’ll put a photo on this post showing my haul.<\/p>\n

It was easier than I expected and makes me want to just… Collect old junk, to harvest what I want so I don’t keep buying a cap here, a diode there, etc.<\/p>\n

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Last night I had my first go at harvesting electrical components from junk PCBs I had lying around my room. I found what used to be an optical mouse. But was now just sitting on a pile of junk and cables I was hoping to find a 0.1microFarad capacitor to perform a mod on a … Continue reading Harvesting components!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[7,9,13,14,8,15,11],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino-2","tag-arduino","tag-diy","tag-electronics","tag-free-stuff","tag-hacking","tag-led","tag-tinkering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}