Voiding some warranties

I was trying to figure out what to do with two broken Nexus 5s - one of them had no wifi and the other had a broken power button and a cracked screen - and I finally just opened them up out of desperation. It was actually nowhere near as bad as I expected and I ended up making a fairly respectable phone out of the parts.

For some reason I tend to assume there's no point in trying to repair modern electronics, what with the whole "not user serviceable" thing and Appleisation of hardware. But you can do anything a technician at some repair centre can do, if you're willing to learn. I was surprised to find that there's actually a lot of resources out there on repairing modern smartphones, where to order replacement parts and so on.

Maybe it's a bad habit taking "that's a hardware problem" to mean "and therefore not my problem". Every time I've made it my problem it's been a lot less hard - and a lot more fun - than I expected.