Free From Salvage

Ideas for how to use your loot, you may find some new ideas here: Salvage Ideas

A master list of stuff to find and where to find it: Salvage Parts and Sources

A guide to all our salvage information Salvage Topics.

Links to Salvage topics

• According to http://coprolite.com/art12.html , "I'd love to hear about where you found your 8048. Take a picture of the host that you remove it from (CD player, truck, refridgerator, whatever) and I'll put your picture on a page that chronicles our adventures sifting through the rubble."

• After the 8048, the 8051 and similar chips are perhaps the most-scavenged CPUs. http://www.8052.com/ has a FAQ and a discussion forum for the 8052, 8051, 8032, and 8031 along with more modern derivatives of these chips.

• uC Hobby --Category Archives: Scrounging Parts

• Fun and Profit with Electronic Salvage!

• Useful Part Sources

• Salvage It! Building a human-powered LED torch for next to nothing

• Salvage TipsTips on pulling stuff apart to build robots. How, where and what.

• Salvage surface mount components

• Go to the site and search on “salvage”

• APEX Electronics : Dorkbot Socal

• Reusing "Wall Warts"

• Learning to Build Electronics –- A Challenge

• How To Scrounge Parts Or... How to homebrew on the cheap - dead link as of July 15, 2010 but still available via archive.org

• Take apart a Compact Fluorescent Bulb
  • "Das DereLicht Receiver": a ham radio receiver built only from the electronic components inside an old compact fluorescent bulb.
  • "Der Nauen Crosses the Pond" describes ham radio transmitter and receiver built from a relatively low-frequency transistor from a compact fluorescent bulb, using magnetic frequency doubler technology.

• RECYCLING OBSOLETE COMPUTER POWER SUPPLIES

• Identifying Electronic Components

• Scrounging a 3COM Super Stack II

• Sam's Gadget FAQ Salvaging Interesting Gadgets, Components, and Subsystems

• Sam's Gadget FAQ Salvaging Interesting Gadgets, Components, and Subsystems

• Keith’s Electronics Blog -- Several nice discussions on Salvage

• FREE or Cheap Hobby Parts

• Search Instructables for Salvage Topics

• Tool Tip: How to Salvage PCB Parts

• HOW TO UNSOLDER AND RECOVER OLD ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

• CD sleeve from outdated electronics

• Junkbot Safari Motors, Gears, Capacitors and Gravy

• Salvaging electronic components for hobby and homeschool crafting

• 8.16) Dangerous (or useful) parts in a dead microwave oven?

• Using baked bean cans as circuit boards[1]