Most pointless DIY project ever

First off on an unrelated note, I don’t understand the internet sometimes. While I was basically away a week i got a huge spike in activity, and then the day after i post something new i get two consecutive days of absolutely no visitors whatsoever, odd.

keyboard before it was murdered

Anyway, no ridiculously long preamble about coffee this time. This is a simple blog, about a simple activity. Home crafts.

What is it I have crafted I hear you ask? Why a wallet of course!

Why is this relevant you ask? because I say so of course!

Ok, so I read on the internet a guide about turning the insides of an old keyboard (of the computer sort, not the electronic music device kind) into a wallet. Having read it i decided this sounded like a pretty cool idea, and i was in need of a new wallet. Also, because our house has been consistently contributing to the computer revolution since sometime in the early 80’s we have more than our fair share of old keyboards.

Oh incase your curious, i was reading this to guide me. I also recorder parts of this experiment to video, don’t know if ill get round to messing with that to make it into something though, i shall let you know if I do.

all those aforementioned accursed bobbly things

anyhow, after getting all the screws out of the damn keyboard (by far the most labour intensive part of the whole job, there were 24 of them holding the thing together, including one hidden underneath one of the feet which i only discovered after about 5 mins of fruitless tugging on the damn case to come apart.

What happened at this point was the bottom immediately fell off and clattered onto the table, followed closely by a shower of little rubber things that resembled frogspawn. I of course maintained my composure by swearing loudly.

A few moments of de cluttering later, and i had successfully obtained what it was I was after all along. Two circuit sheets, im fairly certain (for those of you who are interested) that these are they look like this (now with 50% more red pen to demark where i am going to be cutting it).

There was at this point a long pause, as i realised i owned no transparent masking tape, and my activities were then resumed the day after. To be fair a “wallet” isn’t exactly a tricky thing to make, what with having no moving parts and absolutely no volatile properties (except for maybe the volatile properties displayed by anyone who has ever LOST their wallet), but i still felt a sense of achievement. Oh and if anyone has any ideas for what i could do with the out shell/keys of an old keyboard and all those little blobby things, please send your answer on the back of a postcard to…me.

This was considerably less pretentious than my previous blog, a lot less wordy, and possibly a lot more or less interesting. I don’t know, It’s difficult to judge really since I’ve no idea why the people who read this (if indeed anyone does) actually DO read this, other than to humor me and to assuage my constant pestering of “LOOK AT MAH NEW BLOG ENTREEEE”. Follows is a real of pretty pictures

im 98% confident I havent revealed any info I shouldn't have in this picture

success!