"I'm breaking sh!t n making robots, mom!!!"

[xxAgentCowxx]

Anyone else do this when you were a tyke? It drove my parents nuts because Id keep taking my toys apart and building unrecognizable piles of garbage, mostly just with the moving parts. They tried to buy me legos, but then it just turned into Lego people spaceships VS Unrecognizable Garbage, in which the garbage inevetably won because the lego ships exploded into a million pieces when thrown against the wall or hardwood floors.

Spark any memories for anyone?

Now they call this "reverse engineering" and "hardware hacking"... intriguing, but could your PS2 modchip take on my Chainsaw Batman or Michelangelo w/ ceiling-fan-grappling action? I wish i could be 6 again.





idea spawned here

 

Yes and that's how I eventually got a job with GM after WWII.

 

[AdamSnow]

Ahhh memories...

Cheers :beer:

 

[aircooled]

Every single RC car was ripped apart immediately. Every single digital alarm clock was ripped apart immediately. Everything that used batteries or plugged in the wall was ripped apart immediately.
My mother was scared to enter my room for fear of electrocution (and thinking back, I can't believe I slept in that room with all the hokey wiring I had going on back then)

BTW- Good thread..

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

bump for early birds...

 

[Rufio]

Originally posted by: Roger
Yes and that's how I eventually got a job with GM after WWII.

Damn you're old!!!

 

[moshquerade]

i used to play with Barbie and get my brother's GI Joe doll and have 'em make out.
Ken was too much of a girly-boy for Barbie she wanted GI Joe, a real man.

 

[dpm]

Heh
It seems like every time there is a family get together I suddenly become the boy who used to take everything apart and break it. I'd like to point out in my defence that, despite not having the faintest damn clue about electricity and a near terminal lack of patience with plastic, I occasionally managed to get things working again

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i used to play with Barbie and get my brother's GI Joe doll and have 'em make out.
Ken was too much of a girly-boy for Barbie she wanted GI Joe, a real man.

Chainsaw batman always wanted a girlfriend, but his 3500rpm twirling death blades fused on his cyborg arm from my Tyco RC car motor and Erector set made it kind of difficult for them to both get in the Bat Mobile. That, and I was afraid of Barbies. They had real clothes that came off. Batman was prude too.

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

Originally posted by: dpm
Heh
It seems like every time there is a family get together I suddenly become the boy who used to take everything apart and break it. I'd like to point out in my defence that, despite not having the faintest damn clue about electricity and a near terminal lack of patience with plastic, I occasionally managed to get things working again

Its easy!! You just make it look like it did before. Lost parts were replaced by twistie-ties from the market and duct tape. Nobody will ever notice!!

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: xxAgentCowxx

Originally posted by: dpm Heh It seems like every time there is a family get together I suddenly become the boy who used to take everything apart and break it. I'd like to point out in my defence that, despite not having the faintest damn clue about electricity and a near terminal lack of patience with plastic, I occasionally managed to get things working again

Its easy!! You just make it look like it did before. Lost parts were replaced by twistie-ties from the market and duct tape. Nobody will ever notice!!

Oh, I tried The biggest problem was the old watches and clocks, when the little gears wen't flying. Or when I decided to test whether the digital watch I'd rejigged was still waterproof (answer: No).

And for some reason, my mother got nervous when I went near the sellotape drawer

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

Originally posted by: dpm

Originally posted by: xxAgentCowxx

Originally posted by: dpm Heh It seems like every time there is a family get together I suddenly become the boy who used to take everything apart and break it. I'd like to point out in my defence that, despite not having the faintest damn clue about electricity and a near terminal lack of patience with plastic, I occasionally managed to get things working again

Its easy!! You just make it look like it did before. Lost parts were replaced by twistie-ties from the market and duct tape. Nobody will ever notice!!

Oh, I tried The biggest problem was the old watches and clocks, when the little gears wen't flying. Or when I decided to test whether the digital watch I'd rejigged was still waterproof (answer: No).

And for some reason, my mother got nervous when I went near the sellotape drawer

I found chairs with retractable leg rests to be mechanically intriguing, in some cases hiding underneath and screaming bloody murder when my dad would sit down, or better yet get my pants stuck in the hinges during a 1AM "exploration" with me and my bro, which eventually led to the waking of all parents to avoid ripping of the TMNT PJs. They ripped anyways.

 

[Palek]

My first word was "lamp", as opposed to "daddy" or "mommy" for normal people. I used to (and continue to) take EVERYTHING apart, from clocks to stereos to TV's, I just HAD to know how they all looked on the inside. I eventually even started fixing things, with more or less success. Now I'm all grown up and on the way to becoming a techie who gets paid for making/fixing gadgets. Whowoudathunkit.

I managed to run 220 volts through my body one time... That taught me to respect electricity.

 

[Howard]

This thread = useful.

 

[Azraele]

I did that. I turned a telephone into a boat once.

 

[dmurray14]

Originally posted by: Palek
My first word was "lamp", as opposed to "daddy" or "mommy" for normal people. I used to (and continue to) take EVERYTHING apart, from clocks to stereos to TV's, I just HAD to know how they all looked on the inside. I eventually even started fixing things, with more or less success. Now I'm all grown up and on the way to becoming a techie who gets paid for making/fixing gadgets. Whowoudathunkit.

I managed to run 220 volts through my body one time... That taught me to respect electricity.

No sh!t...my first word was "light"

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

Originally posted by: PalekI managed to run 220 volts through my body one time... That taught me to respect electricity.

I learned when my bro dropped a nickel between the prongs of a nightlight half-in the wall, showered sparks and made indentations in the nickel according to him, which he swifly thru both into the neighbors back yard

 

[xxAgentCowxx]

my first word was no. grandparents had been waiting for that their whole lives

 

[Workin']

Oh, this brings back memories...

My dad was an HVAC contractor and I was always bugging him to bring home an old fan motor from a furnace so I could do a "project". Well, one day he finally broke down and brought me a little 1/3 hp blower motor. Problem was, for power it just had the old cord, with no plug on the end. So my dad showed me how to stick the bare wires right into the wall socket! Imagine, an 8 year old kid sticking bare wires into an electric outlet... somehow my mom never found out.

 

[sillymofo]

Thanks... now I know I weren't the only one that got spanked for breaking shiets and try to put together as different things. I think most of us do that, those that didn't would point up to the sky and recite "air plane, air plane" when they're 12.

 

[acidvoodoo]

yea i'd smash open walkmen, cheapo radios, cheapo clocks, and try and put them back together. i never could, but i still liked to do it


also made lego boats and tried to make tem water tite but tey always sank in the bath

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Roger
Yes and that's how I eventually got a job with GM after WWII.

Wtf? No way you are that old. I thought you were like 60.

 

[Workin']

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: Roger
Yes and that's how I eventually got a job with GM after WWII.

Wtf? No way you are that old. I thought you were like 60.

If you got a job yesterday you got it after WWII...

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Workin'

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: Roger
Yes and that's how I eventually got a job with GM after WWII.

Wtf? No way you are that old. I thought you were like 60.

If you got a job yesterday you got it after WWII...

I realize he could be saying that but I figure he meant right after the war.

 

[Workin']

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: Workin'

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: Roger
Yes and that's how I eventually got a job with GM after WWII.

Wtf? No way you are that old. I thought you were like 60.

If you got a job yesterday you got it after WWII...

I realize he could be saying that but I figure he meant right after the war.

And that's why I put a after what I wrote