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Monday, August 26, 2013
Protect your mobile with Sugru -
First -this blog willbe mate hardware an oftware experiments made at the LHC. Not the European Counterpart - but the one in Campinas - Brazil.
And thsi very first post is about a "Buld Night"we had back in july/2013 using Sugru - gently donated by jameco - as part of their program to give stuff to hacker Spaces around the World to keep ideas flaoting.
So - you can check what is Sugru on the link above - but in short, it can be described as some high tech, colorfull, rubery epoxy. that comes packaged like bubble gum.
I was not planning anything specific to do with the Sugur - but it happened that I went to the Hacker space on the "Sugru Build Night". Having nothins extra with me prompted me to try the Sugru on things I carry around with me anyway - ant the choice fell on my Mobile.
I own this low end Motorola Galaxy-who-cares-It-is-just-a-cheap-android model. :-) An it is so cheap that without a silicon cover, whenever being placed on a hard surface - even if dropped from 2-3 cm, the shock will make the battery disconnect for a fraction of a second - enough to turn the device off. This can be seriously inconvenient - as you expect it to be ready to receive calls and notifications, and so on.
I had actually mitigated the problem soon after purchase by folding a small strip of paper and placing it to push the battery towards the contacts. The problem became less acute, but would persist - here and there, when placing the mobile on a table would turn it off -
Since Sugru is rubbery, I decided to try to make some shock absorbing pads on the mobile - so that shocks would be absorbed.
You can see on the photo - even on the same night, I decided to remove the round-paddings on the corners, and keep just the straight lines on the bottom of the phone. The simple reason: the balls on the corner would prevent the phone to be opened should i wish to replace my SIM card, or fiddle with the battery.
So - I went for it - some of it worked, some other things not
That is about it - forthcoming build-nights could yield things more interesting - but this one just keeps my mobile from randomly turning off - which is good enough!
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