How to make a lamp from an old phone. Homemade lamps from old things

"Everything is temporary. Love, art, planet Earth, you, me. Especially me." (99 Franks)

Nothing in this world lasts forever, and the life of gadgets is sometimes very fleeting. But if you love retro style, are frugal and resourceful by nature, then you can give them a second chance by converting them into something useful and looking retro.

5. Turning an old mouse into a wireless one

Older mice aren't as comfortable and ergonomic as newer models, but they feel as comfortable as an old shirt that's so old that you sneak it around the house on the weekends while no one sees, simply because it's been with you for a long time and you you are used to it :) If you are still using an old wired mouse, or have kept it as an old battle friend, then now is the time to convert it to a wireless Bluetooth mouse, simply by replacing the insides of the old mouse with the insides of the new one.

Let's say right away that this is a decision dictated solely by a sense of nostalgia, rather than practical considerations. If old mouse too inconvenient for weekly use, you can make a camera shutter out of it.

4. Turning an analog TV into an information terminal

Most likely, you have already updated your entire fleet of TVs for a long time, and the old people, CRT monitors, are gathering dust at best, somewhere in the country. You can give an old TV new life, turning it into a YBOX (homemade information screen showing, for example, the weather).

An alternative use is a retro photo frame, which can be placed in the living room. To turn a TV into a photo frame, you need to remove the insides of the TV and replace them with the old sockets and power cord from the lamp, screw in a low power CFL lamp, insert a printed image on the screen, close it and turn on the “TV”.

Now you have a fun retro frame.

If you don't want to waste electricity, make their old monitor a trash can.

3. We make an aquarium out of an old TV or computer

A project from the "incredible but true" series marked "dangerous". Do at your own risk. if you have old tv, computer or other unnecessary equipment with big amount places inside, you can turn it into an aquarium.

If you want to use Floppy disks for their intended purpose, then you can put USB in them.

1. Making a VoIP phone out of a rotary phone

If you find it hard to say goodbye to your old rotary phone, you can turn it into a fun PC headset to use with Google Voice, Skype, or any other VoIP solution.

If you have some unnecessary cordless phones(not quite old), you can make good walkie-talkie radios out of them.

I hope this collection of ideas for transforming old gadgets has inspired you. By following the links you will see visual guides on how to do this or that thing, on English language. All guides are provided with a good visualization of each of the conversion steps.

For everyone who, like us, believes that there should be a soul in the house and loves to make things with their own hands, Quartblog has prepared some ideas on how to give a second life to old objects and make them light up your room. It turns out that things that are unnecessary at first glance can not only become an intricate lampshade for Ilyich's light bulb, but also decorate your entire room with a pattern of light and shadow.

Kitchenware

Crockery and cooking utensils can be both an unusually aesthetic lampshade (for example, if you want your favorite Chinese porcelain bowl to show off in front of everyone and crown your interior as a chandelier), or simply colorful - use a leaky metal a jug as a lampshade for a dim night light.

You can make lamps from plates, cups and bowls using a ceramic drill.

Kitchen graters, colanders and beautiful sieves can not only become a conceptual lamp for the kitchen area, dining room or summer outdoor dining area, but they “sift light” through their holes in a very interesting way. The easiest way is with trapezoidal graters: they can be easily attached by the handle to the ceiling or to the cable on which your Ilyich light bulb hangs.

By the way, if your old kettle has lost its bottom during its long life, you can turn it into a lampshade just as easily as a grater. Here are some cute variations on how these teapots turned into windsongs.

And these are a few examples from manufacturers and needleworkers only from appliances.

Banks and bottles are also good material for ceiling lamps.

We have seen the most beautiful bottle chandelier.

For those who like the idea, but lack confidence in their abilities, our store can come to the rescue. We have in stock, a lamp in the form and multi-colored.

By the way, wine corks can also be an excellent material for a lampshade. We wrote about this dedicated to the topic of what to do with honestly drunk.

globes

And we were inspired by this idea, the nursery of which was decorated with globes suspended from the ceiling.

Why not turn them into lamps? It may be necessary to cut out some islands or continents from them.

natural material

Among the fashion trends for industrialism and ecodesign, the latter in our time leads by a wide margin. For inspiration, we will show you several works, the material for which was given by nature itself.

Recently, a “tragedy” befell me, namely, I broke the display and touchscreen on my Lenovo a850, I replaced the details, but I thought for a long time what to do with the old display, not to throw it away, because super bright LEDs are used for its illumination. I decided to make a bright flashlight out of it.

How to do it, I will tell you now.

To assemble a flashlight from a broken display, we need:
Broken display (in my case from lenovo a850)
Li-ion battery(I had a battery from an old phone lying around)
Case (I had nothing to do and I made it myself)
A set of parts for the converter (the Chinese connected the LEDs in a tricky way, as much as 15V is required to power them)
Soldering iron and soldering accessories

Let's start from the very beginning, but first we need to disassemble the phone and remove the display and sensor from it. The sensor can be thrown away since nothing useful can be taken from it, for example, I cut my finger on its broken glass

We disassemble the phone

We extract from it what we need. Don't forget that you can get hurt.

Now we have a broken display

Next, we need to detach the display matrix from its backlight.

We cut the train with a knife, that's what we should get

Now when the matrix is removed, it is necessary to solder (cut off) its cable from the cable that is needed to power the LED backlight

That's what should stay

Done with the display. Now we will make the body.

I cut a decorative corner to the size of the backlight from the display and, using a matrix and hot glue, made a box in which we will place the battery, converter and connecting wires.

When the box is ready, you can also take on the converter from 1.5V to 15V, well, ideally, apply 3V to the input. The lights are much brighter.

We will collect according to this scheme

I will not tell you a lot about how this converter works.

When power is applied to the device, a voltage drop appears on the resistor R1, a current will flow through the base of the transistor VT1, as a result of which both transistors will be in the open state, at the initial moment there is almost zero voltage on the collector of the transistor VT2 and an increasing current flows through it and the inductor, the value the current will increase until the transistor goes into saturation mode, therefore the voltage on the collector of the transistor VT2 will increase and this will lead to an increase in the voltage across the resistor R2 as a result of this, the transistor VT1 will close, after which the transistor BT2 will close, stopping the accumulation process of the energy of the inductor leads to the formation on the collector of the transistor VT2 of a sufficient positive voltage of tens of volts, which charges the capacitor C1 through the Schottky diode, the zener diode limits the charging voltage on the capacitor and maintains it at 15V, after resetting the voltage on the collector of the transistor VT2 decreases to the power supply voltage, the transistors go into the open state and an increasing current will again flow through the inductor.
We assemble the converter according to the scheme. I did not etch the board and use a surface mount, I used cardboard to install elements on it, installed it as per the diagram and soldered it as in the diagram.

I baseed the parts with hot glue to avoid unnecessary contact and for the strength of the structure itself

Here's what happened

The cord converter is ready - let's finish the case, insert the charging connector and the mini switch.

We make holes in the rectangular case for the switch and insert the switch there

Next, we make a round hole and insert the charging connector and put it on hot melt adhesive

I took the battery from an old phone and soldered two wires to it - red to the plus, black to the minus. We also put the battery on hot glue. We connect the wires from the battery with the wires from the connector, then plus through the switch to our converter. We isolate all contacts with heat shrink or electrical tape.