A new "donated teardowns" idea..

[emberglow]

I've just finished watching the mobile phone camera teardown, and enjoyed it thoroughly. Dave - how about making "donated teardowns" a regular weekly thing? I know, for myself, I have a load of stuff that could prove interesting fodder for examination - surely I'm not the only one. Your mailman might not appreciate all the extra packages, but could make for good video..

Cheers from Alaska..
~Julie

[EEVblog]

Well, one persons "interesting" is not necessarily anothers!
But yes, I'm happy to receive things for teardown, but can't guarantee that I will though.

Dave.

[Uncle Vernon]

Well, one persons "interesting" is not necessarily anothers!
But yes, I'm happy to receive things for teardown, but can't guarantee that I will though.

Dave.

"Don't throw away your old, dull and lifeless technology castoffs - Send them to Dave, and he can throw them away!" 

[Bored@Work]

Land fill Australia! They need it 

[Psi]

A data projector would make an interesting teardown. Lots of interesting optics, tiny motors, high voltage metal halide lamp driver etc.
Just need to find a stuffed one.

I have a really old data projector that has plug in cards and would be awesome to teardown, but it's still working and far to heavy to ship.
It's a meter long!

It's on its last legs though. I reset the lamp counter on the same lamp because a new one costs $4000!
So it will explode eventually.

[mikeselectricstuff]

A data projector would make an interesting teardown. Lots of interesting optics, tiny motors, high voltage metal halide lamp driver etc.
Just need to find a stuffed one.

no shortage of dead projectors on ebay.

Here's a big one :

[Psi]

Thats right, i did watch that a while back.

Mine is about the same size but not quite as advanced, and it's LCD.
It has a sort-of 5 module rack mount system running the entire length of the rear for various i/o cards which is quite interesting.