the guts of a dvd player
Posted by Leah on Jun 25, 2008
Have you ever wondered what the inside of a dvd player looks like? Honestly, I never had. But then my (cheap) dvd player broke, with a netflix movie stuck inside it. So…I took it apart.
One of the screws was on so tight that I ended up breaking the plastic exterior, and then I figured it was beyond repair, so I took apart all the stuff inside. Turns out dvd players have a lot of fancy circuit boards inside that look like the insides of a computer hard drive. (Bud dvd players are easier to take apart. If you’ve never tried taking apart a hard drive, you won’t fully appreciate just how difficult they are to dismantle - tiny, supertight screws, and thick metal casings - they are definitely built to last.)
I once got a bunch of free hard drives that someone was going to throw away because I thought pieces of the circuit boards would look really cool embedded in resin. But I quickly got frustrated with how difficult it was to get them apart and gave up on that idea.
Fast forward to last week, when my cheap dvd player broke. I finally have some circuit boards to make into jewelry! This one is going to look so cool once I get it cut into little pieces and covered in resin….
