Deconstructing a Laptop To Make A Bunch Of Things - Episode 0: Teardown

I enjoy going to surplus stores. Sometimes you can find something really neat in the endless boxes of stuff. That happened the last time I went to my local store. I got a graphics card for my friend's RGB Windows XP build, a cool PCI audio interface card, and a Samsung NP300V5A-A0GUS laptop. It comes complete with a second generation Intel i7, so I figured I'd take this $10 computer and turn it into something. But what if we could turn it into multiple things? We could deconstruct it and make a bunch of things out of it. Sound cool? I think so. And guess what! It's another multi-part post!

State of the Blog - Year 3

Wow. Already three years. Time flies when you try to keep a cadence of two posts per month. Some of them are pretty good, some of them I'm not super proud of. But, self-awareness is a gift, so let's reflect on what this blog is actually about and what we can do to make it better.