Free From Salvage

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A guide to all our salvage information Salvage Topics.

Links to Salvage topics

• The Intel MCS-48 series, Intel's first microcontroller, is perhaps the most-scavenged CPU. The series includes the 8048 (used inside IBM keyboards), the 8035, the 8042 (used on the IBM PC AT motherboard), etc.
• According to http://coprolite.com/art12.html , "I'd love to hear about where you found your 8048. Take a picture of the host that you remove it from (CD player, truck, refridgerator, whatever) and I'll put your picture on a page that chronicles our adventures sifting through the rubble."
  • Andrew Rossignol uses Intel 8035L microcontrollers from the Using MCS-48 series: discussion https://hackaday.com/2013/07/24/using-30-year-old-microcontrollers/ and more discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1imy4i/programming_the_vintage_30_years_intel_mcs48/
  • There has been some discussion on retargeting SDCC to the MCS-48 8035 https://sourceforge.net/p/sdcc/discussion/1864/thread/cc844f17d4/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/sdcc/mailman/sdcc-user/thread/4D3F206A.3010906%40neurotica.com/
  • Intel datasheet for the 8048 / 8035 / 8049 / 8039 / 8050 / 8040 / 8748 / 8949 microcontroller: https://wiki.console5.com/tw/images/4/4a/MCS-48.pdf
  • Modders generally pull their MCS-48's external access (EA) pin up to +5V in order to debug and run their custom code from external memory (bypassing the internal program memory, which cannot be changed in most chips in the MCS-48 series).

• Chips in the Intel MCS-51 series, including the 8051 and similar chips, are perhaps the second- most-scavenged CPUs.
• After the 8048, the 8051 and similar chips are perhaps the most-scavenged CPUs. http://www.8052.com/ has a FAQ and a discussion forum for the 8052, 8051, 8032, and 8031 along with more modern derivatives of these chips.
  • SDCC was originally written to support the 8051 and still supports the 8051 and many variants. https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/
  • "Tutorials for 8051-derivatives development using free software" http://www.colecovision.eu/mcs51/
  • "Using the Free SDCC C Compiler to Develop Firmware for the DS89C430/450 Family of Microcontrollers" https://www.analog.com/en/resources/app-notes/using-the-free-sdcc-c-compiler-to-develop-firmware-for-the-ds89c430450-family-of-microcontrollers.html

• Free sources for Infrared LEDs and photo transistors

• uC Hobby --Category Archives: Scrounging Parts

• Fun and Profit with Electronic Salvage!

• Useful Part Sources

• Salvage It! Building a human-powered LED torch for next to nothing

• Salvage TipsTips on pulling stuff apart to build robots. How, where and what.

• Salvage surface mount components

• Go to the site and search on “salvage”

• APEX Electronics : Dorkbot Socal

• Reusing "Wall Warts"

• Learning to Build Electronics –- A Challenge

• How To Scrounge Parts Or... How to homebrew on the cheap - dead link as of July 15, 2010 but still available via archive.org

• Take apart a Compact Fluorescent Bulb
  • "Das DereLicht Receiver": a ham radio receiver built only from the electronic components inside an old compact fluorescent bulb.
  • "Der Nauen Crosses the Pond" describes ham radio transmitter and receiver built from a relatively low-frequency transistor from a compact fluorescent bulb, using magnetic frequency doubler technology.

• RECYCLING OBSOLETE COMPUTER POWER SUPPLIES

• Identifying Electronic Components

• Scrounging a 3COM Super Stack II

• Sam's Gadget FAQ Salvaging Interesting Gadgets, Components, and Subsystems

• Sam's Gadget FAQ Salvaging Interesting Gadgets, Components, and Subsystems

• Keith’s Electronics Blog -- Several nice discussions on Salvage

• FREE or Cheap Hobby Parts

• Search Instructables for Salvage Topics

• Tool Tip: How to Salvage PCB Parts

• HOW TO UNSOLDER AND RECOVER OLD ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

• CD sleeve from outdated electronics

• Junkbot Safari Motors, Gears, Capacitors and Gravy

• Salvaging electronic components for hobby and homeschool crafting

• 8.16) Dangerous (or useful) parts in a dead microwave oven?

• Using baked bean cans as circuit boards

• Stripping a Scanner for Parts (in 10 minutes)