I was (and still am as of writing this) ripping CD’s, and encoding to AAC maxes the CPU and hits the SSD hard. So, yep, jewel case stand.

Hello, I feel the need to start with an obligatory I know very little about electronics but I do know how to google. Anyway, my iPhone SE cooked itself and with it my photos from 2024 (I have the rest backed up but got lazy, sighhhhh). Did take it to a repair shop hoping it was the battery, and they diagnosed it with a motherboard issue (probably a short (?), it heats up to like a million degrees when the phone is on).

Current state of phone: will turn on when hooked up to charged replacement battery (also battery does not work or is drained as it is charged, probably cooked by mother board) but only stays on for ~30-45 seconds before auto shutting off due to heat.

Possible macgyver solution: attach heatsink to motherboard and turn on with hooked up external battery, pull 2024 photos off ASAP and onto computer, hope this happens before phone overheats.

Potential issues: other than not really knowing what I am doing,

1. I would have to buy a CHARGED replacement battery, and I don't think they really ship those. Possible solutions: buying a used eBay/fb marketplace iPhone SE (kinda expensive) or going to a repair shop and seeing if they have one they could sell me.
2. Not sure the best way to attach a heatsink to the motherboard. Its tucked into the casing of the iPhone, would a small one that just fit over it be enough to keep it cool for a few minutes? Could I quickly switch them as they heat up or is thermal paste like glue? Maybe put a heatsink on back of phone too? And also ig I have to aim a fan on it?
3. Could this possibly mess up my computer with it plugged in? I mean, I guess it's a school computer so I could take it to IT, but I am a med student and really can't be loosing out on days of instruction (and also, how tf would I explain what happened lol...best to be avoided).

Thoughts? Warnings? Other (probably better) ideas?

PS: These photos these aren't the most valuable thing in the whole world, but I would really like them back, and data recovery was quoted to be over $700 on the lower side which is unattainable as I live on student loans :'/

Edit: Is throwing parts that do not belong in an iPhone, into an iPhone, to the point it can't close and I'm hooking it up to the computer to outrace a heat clock not MacGuyver-ing??? I saw multiple posts on here of people adding heatsinks to iPhones before posting so I thought it was? I mean I'm pretty sure regular 'ol tech support would be horrified with the idea

I don't have money for business/premium lines, so have to make do with consumer grade laptops. Apparently all of them have cheap ass hi gers and/or hinge mounting points. They either use screws in plastic or epoxy..

Is there any way to preventively mount something on a laptop to reinforce this? Like, a metal band on the outside lid to increase torsional rigidity when laptop screen is not opened by pushing right in the middle? Or a v-shape band that goes from both hinges to the top middle?

I currently have Envy X360 13 from 2018 and the hinges are still great. One hand open, no wobble. But apparently I am the very lucky exception as HP stands for Hinge Problems.

So I just bought this mini CRT (4”) and I’m wondering if there is a way I could generate signals, like an oscilloscope would, but on my computer and output them through either the audio jack or usb. I’m imagining I could just take the data pins from a usb and wire them to an rca jack or the terminals of the audio jack to rca. Is that feasible? I’d like to not have to buy an oscilloscope just to show sign waves on my CRT. What other ways could I generate signals for RCA video?

Update:

(I have an hdmi to rca converter but not with me, plus I wanted to explore other ways)

I tried just a direct audio signal to rca and it works but I was hoping to find a way to display the audio like the lines on an oscilloscope. It has a static like picture that sort of resembles an audio wave on the right most part of the screen. I’m wondering if I mess around with an audio signal enough could I in theory get a display similar to an oscilloscope.

It's actually broken somehow after a year, spot the joint where I'm gonna resolder it ...or use stands from an ethernet cable for more upvotes on this sub.

https://preview.redd.it/r2lyiamrjqad1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c474338dace1f17878899ef31b57a53fe0ee17a1

for those interested - I am a renter and have been waiting on this fix for weeks. Hopefully it is okay that I took it into my own hands. Was convenient to have 2 of these adapters and a long aux cable on hand! Now lets see how they do the fancy fix!

First time repairing hardware and soldering at this small scale.

So i Got this 3070, that had broken pwm fan connectors, where one was missing a pin, i tried replacing the header, but the fan spun full throttle, i then decided to try and bridge the connections that was peviously messed up, with some small cables.

Also i found out that one cable on from the fan was snapped, so i just did i little solder, and covered the solder in hot glue, as I don’t have other insulation atm.

Card supposedly works and cools as it should again.

Ran a time spy benchmark hitting max gpu temp of 77 and having a 13968 score on 936mv 1965mhz.

And yes, it works. I needed to get my Master Duel data ported to my PC and this was a last minute idea. Thinking about making this permanent by heating up a screwdriver to melt the plastic for a through-hole. What do you guys think?