LastComputer turned a badly damaged Samsung Galaxy S23 into a desktop gaming computer. The build combines the phone's mainboard with a 512 GB SSD, USB hubs including HDMI output, and an added cooling fan.
The creator straightened the bent frame with a hammer and installed a replacement battery. A heatsink and fan lowered temperatures by about seven degrees Celsius compared with the phone's original cooling setup. Samsung DeX provides the desktop environment, with PS2 emulation and other games demonstrated.
The phone looks beyond saving as a phone, but a hammer, fan and SSD give it a second career as a gaming PC.
The Long Clock uses a roughly 2.3-meter rail mounted on the ceiling, with a single hand slowly traveling along it to show the time. It was built so children watching movies would notice time passing through a large visible mechanical movement rather than an alarm.
Mechanically, it is essentially a one-axis CNC machine. The build reuses a roughly three-meter aluminum extrusion, linear rails, a stepper motor and other parts salvaged from older projects. A carriage moves the pointer along an elongated clock face. It was created by freefoote.
The problem was simply not having a clock in the room, and the solution was not to buy one but to mount a 2.3-meter CNC mechanism on the ceiling. The clock itself is harder to ignore than the time.
Wormhole Display is an app that turns discontinued Meta Portal devices into wireless displays and speakers for Macs, iPhones and iPads. Once installed, a Portal appears as an AirPlay-compatible receiver and can be used for screen mirroring or as an extended Mac display, with audio through its built-in speakers.
Portal devices are Android-based, so the app is installed as an APK after enabling ADB. The project has been tested on Portal+, Portal Mini, Portal Go and Portal TV, and requires no special software on the sending Apple device. It was released by Piotr Godlewski.
Remove the abandoned service from a dedicated appliance and what remains is a surprisingly useful screen and speaker. The Portal may have become more versatile after its original job ended.
A small rechargeable air blower meant for cleaning desks and keyboards was taken apart to test whether its internal EDF (electric ducted fan) could propel an RC airplane. The fan and ESC form a convenient compact package, and testing reportedly produced up to about 110 grams of thrust at 16.5 amps.
One unit may not provide enough thrust for the intended model, so using two is also being considered. The project treats a consumer gadget less as a product and more as a convenient container of reusable components.
This is the mindset where you see a product and immediately ask “what's inside that I can repurpose?” The blower probably didn't expect an aviation career.
The phone looks beyond saving as a phone, but a hammer, fan and SSD give it a second career as a gaming PC.