Category: BitFIXit Projects
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Smartphones – the BitFIXit take: Part 1 (Introducing the project)
Ah, smartphones. Most of us have at least one of these devices. We use them for all kinds of tasks during everyday use. Banking and contactless payments, keeping in touch with friends and loved ones. Catching up on the latest news and social media feeds. Playing games, listening to music and watching TV shows and…
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Our media centre build: some good and bad news…
Hello again, readers and fellow fixers! Now, we admit that we placed our media centre build on the back burner. Since the last time we covered the project, we were busy with a lot of repair jobs. Gareth’s founding of Reyt Repair brought our BitFIXit repair cafes together as combined Saturday sessions. As a result,…
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Our media centre build: the cooling conundrum
Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! Since the previous part, we looked again at implementing a cooling solution for our media centre build project. We intended to reuse one of the fans I salvaged from some old laptops as an exhaust fan. However, a problem enters… Why not use a laptop fan for our media…
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Our media centre build: trying something else…
Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! Lately, we looked again at our media centre build, so that we can finish the project. We tried to position the Pine H64 single board computer within the external hard drive chassis. This is for making the ports we want to use easy to access. After some time, we…
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External hard drive to media centre build: our project so far
Hello fellow readers and fixers! We have been working on a project that uses an external hard drive case as a media centre PC. But while it has been on the back burner lately, we’re still looking to finish the project! So let’s recap on where we’re up to at this time. How it all…
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Re-exploring the idea of making snack makers using old parts…
Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! We had a light bulb moment in our heads recently. There’s one thing that we’re keen on doing, and that’s revisiting an old repurpose idea from a few years ago. We originally explored the idea of using old parts from computers and peripherals to make different snack makers. There…