Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Exploded Phone Sculpture!

Summary

Adam Savage partners with OnePlus to create an art piece displaying the internal components of their new OnePlus 12 phone encased in resin. They disassemble multiple phones to understand the hardware and determine what's needed to power the screen for the display. After testing with acrylic molds and crystal clear resin, they carefully position the disassembled phone parts and cables before pouring the resin. Despite some difficulties, the final result is an accurate diagram of the phone's internal layout successfully displayed in an illuminated resin block, achieving their creative goal for OnePlus.

Takeaways

• 😲 OnePlus asked Adam Savage to showcase their new OnePlus 12 phone by disassembling it and embedding it in resin
• 👨‍🔧 Adam and his team disassembled two OnePlus 12 phones to figure out the components needed to get the screen working
• 🔋 The battery and charging coil were among the largest internal components
• 📱 Amazingly, they got the screen working detached from most other phone components
• 💡 Key learnings were around optimal resin pouring and curing temperatures
• 🔧 The team built an acrylic mold and tested resin pouring with a phone screen
• ⏳ Working time for the crystal clear resin was about 2 hours before it started to cure
• ❗ Forgetting to apply mold release compound almost ruined the final pour
• ✅ In the end, they got the embedded screen working powered by a separate phone!
• 🤗 Adam was thrilled with how the final phone display sculpture turned out

Q & A

What is the overall project goal?

The goal is to disassemble a OnePlus 12 phone and embed it in resin as a trophy display, with the screen still functioning.

What steps are involved in disassembling the phone?

Key steps include removing the glass back after heating, disconnecting cables and modules like cameras and speakers, removing screws, detaching the battery, and eventually separating the screen with its cable intact.

How will the screen be powered when embedded in resin?

The screen cable will be connected to a separate donor phone contained in the base, which will drive the display.

What resin is used for the clear casting?

They use a crystal clear resin called Crystal Clear 204.

What issues occured during the resin casting process?

Challenges included leaks in the acrylic mold, getting the right consistency and curing time, and positioning components before the resin hardened.

How is the embedded screen polished?

The resin is sanded starting with 320 grit up to 1000 grit, then polished by hand using a 3-step buffing compound.

What is the base made of?

The base is machined out of Richlite, a resin-infused paper material good for structure and finishing.

How is the screen cable connected to the base?

The cable feeds through a hole in the bottom of the base and connects to the internal phone board via a 90 degree twist.

What was the biggest technical challenge?

Getting the embedded phone screen to operate while encased in resin with minimal connected hardware was a major unknown.

How closely did the final product match the original design?

The final trophy display matched the original drawings very closely, showcasing the phone components as envisioned.

Outlines

00:00

😀 Introducing the phone disassembly project

Adam Savage introduces a project to disassemble a OnePlus 12 phone and embed it in resin for a trophy display. The goal is to showcase the internal components while keeping the screen operational. Adam, Norm and Jordan discuss the challenges involved like removing the glass back panel and dealing with all the densely packed electronics.

05:02

🚧 Carefully disassembling the phone

The team begins carefully disassembling the phone using various tools. They detach modules like the wireless charging coil, cameras, speaker and battery while testing operation at each step. Amazingly, the screen remains functional even after removing multiple components, showing the robustness of the system.

10:07

📱 Testing screen operation at each step

As disassembly progresses, Adam, Norm and Jordan repeatedly test if the phone can still turn on and operate after each component is detached. This helps identify dependencies between modules. Surprisingly, the screen remains operational even with just the battery and mainboard connected.

15:08

😊 Successfully extracting key components

The team successfully extracts the key components they want to showcase in the resin cast - the cameras, wireless charging coil, display and mainboard. Adam diagrams a layout for positioning the parts in the resin with the display cable extending out to connect to a second phone.

20:09

🔬 Performing test resin pour

Adam mixes and degasses a small batch of crystal clear resin to do a test pour with just a spare phone screen. This will allow examining factors like working time, positioning objects in the resin, preventing trapped bubbles etc. The test pour will inform techniques for the final pour.

25:11

⏳ Monitoring resin curing over time

The test resin pour is monitored over a couple of days as it slowly cures. Adam notes that it remains soft even after 16 hours, showing the exothermic curing process. Artifacts formed while moving the resin too late are visible. This highlights the importance of the specified 2 hour working time.

30:25

👷‍♂️ Constructing final phone mold

With lessons learned from the test, Adam carefully constructs the acrylic mold for embedding the actual phone components in resin. He ensures no fingerprints or gaps, takes time to adjust corners and openings, and double checks for airtight sealing to prevent leaks.

35:25

🚀 Successful final resin pour!

The final phone parts are positioned in a thin layer of resin and the rest is poured carefully. The pour goes smoothly and the embedded phone screen amazingly remains functional, proving the resin casting process was successful. Some minor battery puffing occurred but the front looks great.

40:26

🛠 Sanding and polishing the cast

With the phone successfully encased in resin, Adam sands starting from coarse 400 grit up to fine 1000 grit. Then he hand polishes with a 3-step novice polish system to achieve a beautifully clear finish that makes the components pop.

45:27

🎉 Completed embedded phone sculpture!

The polished resin cast is completed with a machined richlite base that houses a second phone to drive the embedded display. Adam and Norm celebrate successfully tackling the unknowns and achieving an accurate representation of the original design rendering.

Keywords

💡Phone disassembly

Taking apart the OnePlus 12 phone step-by-step to access the internal components. This is done carefully using specialized tools to avoid damaging parts needed to embed in resin while displaying functionality.

💡Resin casting

Encasing objects in clear epoxy resin by pouring the mixed liquid resin into a mold and allowing it to harden. This preserves and displays the phone's internals for the trophy display commissioned by OnePlus.

💡Acrylic mold

A custom-built reusable mold for shaping liquid resin, constructed out of acrylic sheets and glue. It has to be completely airtight to avoid leaks or holes that would ruin the clear resin cast.

💡Exothermic reaction

The heat-releasing chemical reaction that occurs when mixing the two resin components. It determines the working time for positioning objects in the mold before the resin starts to harden.

💡Pressure chamber

An enclosure used to apply external air pressure to resin casts as they cure. It prevents air bubbles from forming in the resin, which would reduce optical clarity.

💡Polishing

Smoothing and buffing the cured resin block using sandpapers and polishing compounds. This removes any surface imperfections to achieve a clear glass-like finish for presenting the phone internals.

💡Driver phone

An intact duplicate phone used to power on and display content on the screen assembly embedded in resin. It connects via a cable coming out of the resin block.

💡Oxygen OS

The Android-based operating system running on OnePlus phones. By leaving a connected USB cable, the team can access the OS through a mouse to control the casted screen.

💡Magic trick

The ambitious end goal of displaying a functional phone screen fully encased in resin, achieved through meticulous planning and problem solving each step of disassembly, positioning and casting.

💡Trophy display

The commissioned centerpiece sculpture showcasing the OnePlus 12 by suspending its disassembled components in crystal clear resin. It reveals the internals while retaining functionality.

Highlights

They disassemble and display a new OnePlus phone inside resin

They heat the phone to melt the adhesive holding the glass back

The screen functions even when most components are disconnected

The cameras are modular and detach separately

They test pouring resin with a phone screen

The resin takes over 16 hours to fully cure

They forgot to apply mold release on the first attempt

The screen works while suspended in resin

A second phone drives the display for the resin piece

They polish the resin to a clear finish

The display lights up showing all the phone components

It was a rush to solve many unknown problems

They learned a lot working with resin for the first time

The final piece beautifully displays the phone's internals

They thank OnePlus for the opportunity to do this project

Transcripts

hey everybody

Adam Savage in my cave alongside Norm

Chan and Adam

we have a fun and potentially challenging

build project today

this is OnePlus

has asked us to make a display of their new phone

the OnePlus 12

which just was announced today yep

and here is here it is

and they want us to take it apart and embed it in resin

like a trophy display showing all of its internal parts

which is can I just say right up front

it is awesome when a client comes to you with an idea

you love instantly

like hats off to OnePlus

that is a great idea

it's something that I think we would do kind of anyway

yeah yeah we would love the idea

disassembled

exploded diagram of electronics

exactly I love look

I love peeling

aside the curtain and seeing the insides of things

there's one extra wrinkle to this

which is well

they would love it if the screen

which will have detached from the rest of the internals

might still work while encased in resin

while encased in resin

what are we here

magician I'm like

a little bit yeah

that's an intense one okay

cause I've taken apart phones before

but to get a phone

at least a display yeah

working while it's assembled

I haven't tried that before

it's not a deal breaker

so we're gonna

work towards that and hope that we achieve that goal

I see a lot of cool I mean

we gotta do resin pouring

yep figure out the display

well first of all

disassemble

that's the first part is disassembling

and disassembling phones is often involves

many different tools

many different techniques

there's the phone okay

so bunch of cameras on the back

uh no it's their new flagship phone

um 2 3 4 is that 5 cameras I see

practically or a light

yeah a light

three cameras

and a camera on the front facing camera as well

of course USB C uh

I'm so curious

I haven't taken a modern phone apart in long time

you you guys did that a lot back in the day

yeah yeah so we've got some of the

we got screen pullers

we've got spudgers

um but first off

the Intel we have from them

is that this glass back is held on with a gasket

that melts at like 200 degrees Fahrenheit

hundred and seventy

something like that

so we gotta go warm this up

loosen up the adhesive and remove the back

I have heated my lab oven up

so let's put it in the lab oven for five minutes

and see how it goes alright

I I've never put a phone in the oven before

this is the first

I love having a lab of it

alright our phone is done

you baked the phone

it really feels like a cooking show

so apparently a little alcohol around the perimeter

to soften yep

I don't think we need a ton here no

I'm just if the gasket in here is soft

I want to see if I can just get any movement

yeah so something we noticed is that the glass

or the back is glass yes

but it's a matte finish

so normally we would be using a suction and nothing

sticks to it

our suction actually is not sticking to it

so your solution here is to apply

a larger piece of surface area of tape

that is airtight and like locally sticky

like it won't

I don't know

I'm it's a theory

we'll see if I'm right or wrong

oh yeah the back is coming up okay dude

we got the back coming up

we got so this is where we're gonna be careful

yep yep yep

try to get all in one piece and not pry too much

wow oh wow the adhesive right there okay

so yeah there we go I don't wanna over torque it

oh my gosh oh

come on baby come on there we go that's it

why am I moving so fast ha ha ha ha oh

that's a nice satisfying pop no connections

uh I'm I'm frankly

I'm impressed with us

I'm so pleased

glass back off of this thing

it was also a testament to how amazing glasses

become in the past 10 years yeah

15 years I mean

so the back is off

and we can already see how tightly

some of these electronics

are packed in

a large part of this volume is from all smartphones

it's gonna be the batteries yeah

that is big chunk right here on top of the battery

oh yeah the coil

that's a charge coil

that is the charging coil

which is one of the reasons

you have to have this glass back

right right

you can have that charging

when you lay the phone down on a charge pad

fast charging

that's a new feature on this phone

that's clearly the

one of the first things that comes off

it looks like the cameras looks

I see a bunch of screws all right

so we oh wait

let's first of all see if it operates with the back off

let's okay here we go hey

it had already been on

that is fantastic oh

that's great

I feel like that's something we're gonna have to do

a bunch every minute along this build because yeah

we don't know what parts in here are dependent

on the other parts to operate

and it may have all sorts of shutdown protocols

if a camera is not connected or if the

okay let me go get some fine screwdrivers

I'm gonna keep all the screws together

even though we're not gonna be putting this phone

back together oh no

but they're part of the display

I think yeah

we absolutely should keep the screws

can tell you how much I love these plastic razor blades

dude they are you know

all I need is one that

is guaranteed to be the consistency of a fingernail

and then I think I don't need another Pride

Bar for the rest of my life

look at that wow

look how thin that is dude

that's crazy that's um

that's all that's needed

I mean it's 10th of a millimeter right

and it's this copper wound up yeah

it's the first thing that we're actually disconnecting

potentially an antenna cable okay

wraps around the edge of the phone wow okay

that comes up now

now I guess my question is

what about this guy here

it's like a shield plate cool

are that part No. 2

okay I mean

examine what is this

it's a speaker

yes speaker

that's the little speaker gasket here

let's see if it turns on

let's see where we are with the phone turning on yeah

okay why not why not

phone turns on still operating

you unplugged the cable and replugged the cable

very robust system they built here um

here you go

I'm gonna move this over here for you

and is that a that's that's the light look LED light

yeah as well

so there are some connections yep

where it's literally contacts

yeah so 1 2

3 4 5 6 yeah

there's a whole bunch of contacts

between this board and here um

let's see if the phone still turns on

and it does

this is amazing I

I really thought that we'd be failing at every junction

yeah I think at this point let's disconnect the battery

let's turn the phone off and disconnect the battery

so it's volume up volume up and power all right

up there goes

there we go

so lie down power off

fantastic so battery

I'll give it a second

there goes okay

done now it says here

pull up the battery

I mean for anyone who's

gonna wanna maybe replace their battery down the line

this all seems very doable so far

it really does I'm really quite impressed

wow wow I cannot believe that worked

I'm gonna pull off those battery pull tabs

and that is our power supply right there

and the contact

a little more sophisticated than two contact points

but very small

wow these flex cables

you wanna talk about yeah

just thick enough

big enough to carry a signal and that is it

here comes one whoa

so this is uh

this entire camera module

that's amazing

it's modular

it's almost like they

they are gonna manufacture

this and then plug it right into that connection

plus it's got its own QR code

so they're doing live tracking of all the parts

throughout the whole manufacturing process

which is really neat the form factor here is novel

because this is a telephoto lens right

so it's a is that a periscope

it's a periscope yeah

that's what keeps that low profile

amazing very cool

yeah I got a question for y'all yeah

at this point

do you want to try

yeah totally

totally okay

because you know camera systems

I feel like if those break

the phone maybe should just turn on

okay so I'm going to pop in this the battery

yep and I feel like it's connector

the other cable that we had not tested

well let's try it without that

all right without both of these cables we go

uh battery connected here we go

so the whole daughter board minus that display yeah

nothing down here is connected except for this cable

which we think might be to display

so holding down

come on baby

wow oh my gosh

there's no way to charge this phone right now

the the the USB

there's no input

oh wait we have eliminated the speaker

everything down here

is this connected

that's amazing

you can't take pictures of it

it doesn't connect to Wi Fi but it still turns on

oh that holdings pop off

everything just came off

oh and I disconnect

that's the front facing camera

there is the front facing camera module

alright amazing

does this is the this is the brains like this is

that's the right cause look that's that's um

uh Thermal paste

right right right

that's the heat transfer

that's definitely the the processor is in here yeah

okay so I believe if I short across these two pads

that will be the on switch

okay here we go ready

here goes nothing

Adam Adam Adam dude

wait a second

we have we have potential operation

with nothing but the battery

this board all of this stuff is out

and the screen still works dude

this is this is like

this is amazing okay

so at this point

I think we have the phone in the component in the yeah

I can pull a couple of units from up here

I think like that thing

but I think we have the phone dismantled into

the majority of the parts will be dismantled into

that we wanted to play that we want

right right

the new camera systems

the wireless charging

the display

and the important thing for us is this cable right

because if we want this operating

that cable has to go down in the casting yes

I can't imagine that we're gonna have the battery

and the motherboard and the processor

working inside resin no

what we'll do is we'll have to have a second phone

in the base that we connect this to

and that phone can drive all the things

that's our magic trick great

I like that

and then it is just the screen

you're looking at the back of it

you're looking at yeah

um and we'll tidy up

but what is this like 3

4 inches almost

not a ton but yeah

I mean we do this and it's sitting on a base

the phone is

I'm feeling okay about that

so I think what I'd like

to do then is it's time to start to figure out

how big our molds gonna be

so it's really time to turn this off

lay out lay it out

how it's going to be with screws and everything

let's diagram out yeah

so display's gonna look like

♪ ♪ ♪

I like this layout

I've kept the cameras localized together

I mean you can't really do this

so that every part is close to where it actually

belongs on the phone

but I feel like this gives

and we're exposing the back to the front

but this is the front

and I think the back will be equally as interesting

okay I get it now

so this is suspended in like a

couple inch

2 inch thick of

at the mostly resin

yeah exactly

in this form factor right

um with about this border right

so it's about a half an inch all the way around

coming in um

and then about that on top

a little bit below the surface here

I see here's

that's and then the important part that is

I'd have this tail coming out wow

and then we work out the base

based on how we connect that tail

to the phone

that will drive the screen

and that's the thing

while you're laying this out

we are disassemble a second phone

and that's how we

execute the magic trick

the motherboard and battery

the only basically two things we need

that's what this gets connected

to totally amazing um

I'd like to also dismantle a phone today and

cast just its screen to do a test pour

this stuff has a pot life of two hours

which means somewhere around 70 to 90 minutes

it's gonna get gummy

that's when we're gonna learn

when we can start to place

objects on the first half of the pour um

I got my fan going upstairs

so dust is down

we should spray uh

we should spritz a little bit of um

just water out of a spritz bottle around

to sort of settle the dust in this room

and do a test pour

with one screen and a tail coming out

so that we can just see

if the screen is embedded in resin

do we get right

right right is

are there electronics here that get inhibited

when it's in case

and also it's going to give us a real good sense of

for this crystal clear 2:04 yeah

what that working time is

here is the extents of our

clear resin

and then the phone would sit in here

surrounded by all its bits

all the way around and its tail comes down

and comes out here

and that connects to the phone at the bottom

and then the base

I'm thinking is just some piece of black material um

hollowed out

hollowed out and big enough

big enough to fit the phone in here right

the driver phone yeah

exactly and we can put an on switch

you know USB will probably want to reconnect that

that's how we'll actually drive it because

we can't access the touch screen

no when it's in there right

yeah so you'll need that USB board connected

on the daughter board there

so that can plug in like a USB mouse

amazing for right

right right

and you'll be able to okay

tap into the Oxygen OS yeah

so if this comes up like this

so that would be the bottom

and then that would be the true bottom

and that gives me some stuff to glue to

to hold on to inside the the base

you're thinking like a wooden base

I'm actually thinking my

my my rich light oh

okay something you can machine into

I can machine into it

it's structural

it's black it's beautiful and like it'll never marr

I hate having to paint something

but it makes so much sense

I'm seeing now that the poor has to happen yeah

while it's laid out

yes I have a question

and I haven't worked with this crystal clear yet

what is the mold gonna be constructed out of

the molds gonna be constructed out of acrylic um

that gives us perfectly flat surfaces that are uh

really smooth

so it saves us polishing on the other end okay

although there will be a polishing pass

the acrylic should do a lot of our work for us um

the stuff works with a standard

smooth on universal mode release

which I happen to have a dozen cans of um

it feels like we're gonna learn from our test ports

today exactly how well it will come out

and we're gonna assemble that mold using just hot glue

it's the fastest way

to be able to see

every corner where there could be air coming out

alright sounds like an

except make that test mode with our backup screen

yes so yeah

that's gonna sit oh wow

it's pretty high elevation

but yeah well

we're just gonna pour it

I want a thick pour for this test

yeah I wanna

I wanna really see the exact case scenario

you know right

right right

so I'm gonna

yeah I think we better off with this over on this side

yeah there we go um

and then cool

so I'm gonna

I think be able to just put this down right away

so for people building their own acrylic molds here

what are the things I need to be concerned about

like how airtight

water tight does this construction need to be

well the it has to be completely airtight

the cost of failure in a mold like this is total

you can look at it really close

and you can see where you might have a weakness

and then you can go in and sort of fix that weakness

so there's two passes to making a mold like this

the first pass is assembly

and then the second pass is really just double checking

and making sure that you are as clean as you can be

so the assembly is just

you know you're laying it down on the big planes

letting it dry

and then you go through an inspect

and you add all the hot glue you need when you do yeah

and even if the edges of your cut

acrylic aren't perfectly flush

there's some clean up we can do completely

absolutely yeah

just cleaning up all that

yeah you got a corner that you gotta like you know

make a little bit neater

but that's the flashing yeah

I do think there is some post

polishing that will be necessary

everybody messes up one of these molds once

or of operations

yeah so with this formulation of the crystal clear

it's a not one to one part mixture

it's 90 to 100 right

that's right

it's 10 to 9

have the spec sheet

yes yes yes

yes in mass

okay oh by wait sorry

yeah mix ratio

hundred part a

90 part B okay

so 8 68 for the hundred clear

8 6 8 * point nine = 7 81

7 81 for part B

number a number B

is that correct

that's correct

number B I said number B

yes our first right

so the first amount we pour

well this should actually

we might not

that might be

we might need more volume

wow for the final

yeah yeah for for a mixture

come on

3 97 three 97 right here we go

I'm at three 95 okay

alright fantastic

great three 98 so we stir then we evacuate

that's right

then we then we then we pour all right

so stir for about two minutes or so

yep script the edges

the working time for this crystal clear formulation

is about two hours yeah

so it's an exothermic reaction

so that is highly dependent on how thick you have it

little kick in probably 30 minutes inside this cup

because there's such a concentration of it um

one of my standard rules that my mentor taught me was

as long as you do 30 stirs

you're probably at the bare minimum of what's necessary

uh like 30 times you move your

you move your thing one

two three like that

but I just keep on scraping the insides until I see no

no artifacts you know

so tossing that

I'm gonna put this in here for evacuation yep

it's very reluctant to give up its air no

so unlike normal casting resin which bubbles up

oh there it goes here it comes

it's not nearly expanding as much in volume

there we go

we'll just make sure it's not gonna overflow

the extent of the cup

and we'll let it sit there

and think about what it wants to do for a while okay

I think we're ready

I think we're about 15 minutes into the working time

but you know we can

and release the vacuum slowly

you gotta release the vacuum slowly

cause you're gonna have debris in there

and if you do it fast

it's just gonna send it all into the resin

and before we do our full pour

I'll clean that out so we eliminated the possibility

what's lovely is the moment it's done

it just lifts right off there we go

it's already warm

it started the exotherm yeah so

here we go

this is when we start to watch it run out

no no no no no

I just wanna be really clear that like

I read on this

I read up on this all night last night

in the last couple of days

but I have not done this type of clear resin

pour before um

to friends of tested

Evan and Kate have done a bunch recently and I

I looked at some of their videos for some guidance

on the pet falls

there's a few other you to

oh oh oh oh

I was looking out

beautiful beautiful

gotta slap it on like an infomercial exactly

beautiful one of the more important modeling materials

my God it was such an important material in Mythbusters

all right so now 3:35 yeah

we're about 20 minutes into the working time

where we have some left over here so we can

this is great

and we can keep an eye on its viscosity yeah

yeah and that

that actually tells us roughly you know

about our overage

in terms of the specific gravity of water

versus this stuff

I think I was able to run that off at the pass

I feel confident that

that can stick around for a couple of hours

and because there's actually more surface area here

it's gonna kick faster in the cup than here

so we can use possibly

I'm I'm curious about that but yes

we will we'll be able to see when we can start

when we can put in our phone um

that's really lovely

it's lost a little bit of clearance

but you know what

I think it works perfectly oh yeah

I'm not that concerned about that all right

it's a whole other day

it's a whole other day

it's the next morning and it's finally solid

a couple of things

one is the um

the leak continued a tiny bit

and if you touch this

you can see it is actually not fully cured yet oh my

it's still wow yeah

it's and it's hard yeah

but not yet

you can actually still

mold it here

and we're like

it's 15:00 16 hours after our poor

more than that

18 hours or so

we ported it 3:00 yesterday 3:15 um

this two hour working time

that it what it is is um

if you look in here

you can see

there are some artifacts of the liquid moving and that

so what's happening when it sets

is this a Thermal

reaction that builds polymer chains

and you can see in here

you can see visually some of those polymer chains

and you can't hear

that's because I was moving this around

at like the three hour Mark

and that's why it tells you

the working time is two hours

cause that's how long you have to work with it

before it starts to show artifacts of

you're messing with it yeah

so there's also a dip in the corners here

which it dropped down to about 40

degrees here last night 40

45 I feel like that's a temperature

differential

so what I'm gonna do today

well but for the big poor

I wanna put my pressure chamber

with a space heater near

so the ambient heat is the same for the whole cure time

about probably 70 degrees Fahrenheit

which is like an ideal casting

temperature

we'll pour the second half of this and that

the question I wanna answer with that is

how do I put in some little tiny

screws and not have them flow all over the place

my plan is to take some of that

we just mix some and de gas a batch

I wanna pour in a really thin layer

like 8th of an inch thick

and start putting this in there

and start putting some screws in

and get them positioned

where I only have to do it in a little bit of depth

and then pour the rest from like a corner

and see if it keeps I

I don't know

if pouring is gonna mess up the whole arrangement

that's the experiment

I'm terrified

you gloves no

I don't feel like I need gloves right now

simply cause I'm just

we're gonna do a

I wanna total coverage of the first of the of the

layer and be mindful of the hole

oh right there it is

you just made it cause you'll need to wire

this cable out without it that end

touching end of the resin right okay

okay hold that we need Scissors

okay here we go

all right

hang on

oh wow

all right I think wrap

bundling that up would be prudent but yes

I totally agree okay

so I'm gonna go this towards the bottom here

so now I want to see about placing the tiny

tiny screws and I'm gonna put a bunch up here

how did it feel placing that screen

that felt really good and I felt a little resistant

so it's really nice is that the screen is perfectly

lozenged shaped

in order to not capture any tiny bubbles

oh I see okay

so there is room to move

and we have two hours of working time

so this is while boring

certainly doable

this is where been choosing

between 20 minutes or two hours of working time

go ahead and drop that great in the resin

we're gonna need that to place all the pieces

oh my God yes

so wow yeah

I know all right yeah

go ahead and drop

and I think with each of these I wanna yeah

go ahead and drop

okay so I moved this

and it moved all the screws forward oh

wow so again

just noted about how

how this has to happen

does it change order of operations if the screws last

it might yeah

I think the screws definitely are last

that's definitely true

you're nolling in resin I'm nolling in resin baby okay

so I'm gonna try pouring in here okay

oh it's the way it down

and also because I want those bubbles to form

early

and we will check in yeah

in an hour see if anything shifted

we have two hours basically to move things around

without getting those strands in there yeah

we have a lot of time for that yeah

I'm going to put this cover back over here and tape it

and we'll just put this over in the corner yeah

and monitor it for a couple of days

I'm building the final mold and I'm really making sure

taking pains to have no fingerprints on this

alright I think I'm ready to mix and to pour

405 grams

there she blows

450

alright

oh look I got that depth exactly right

I wanted about three quarters

half an inch

I'm just gonna let that think about itself for

a few minutes

and then I'll come back and

make sure there's no bubbles

and how tight should you make them

actually to be fair

the size of the handle is often

designed to dictate how much force you can apply

it's like how many foot pounds should you apply

well hopefully the designers have actually figured out

and made the handle the size it needs to be

so the average human could apply that many foot pounds

okay here we go

now we wait

basis of things uh

while my resin is setting

I've got some time

still got a lot of time um

while it's setting before I do the second pour uh

it's time to worry about the base of this display unit

and bases can be a weird nightmare

because when you're making

something that's for display it's base

it's something that nobody pays attention to

but only if you get it right and make it perfect

it's very weird

no one looks at the base and thinks oh

how did that go

but if you get something wrong

that's a problem

so painting

is often how you can screw up a good base

you make it out of wood and then you paint it

and the wood dries differently and the paint soaks in

in different ways

and then you got a clear coat it and you get crazy

or you get bubbles and like

bases are this weird place where the stakes seem low

but in fact they're weirdly high

all this is the longest way

of saying uh

last year I obtained what I think is the most

ideal base material for anything

and it's rich light

this is an industrial

um material built originally as lab table material

it is a resin infused paper

layers and layers of paper infused with resin

sort of like a mycarta

it's dense it is structural

so you can actually build structural things out of it

unlike many

machining materials like this

it's expensive

but as you can see

it already comes in this beautiful

warm black and you can finish it to a nice sort of

a satin smooth finish

it can be beautiful

so this will be the base of my phone display um

it is going to be 12 inches

long by three and a/2 inches wide

because it has to fit another phone in its base

to drive the screen of the phone will have in the clear

uh it also has to fit all the electronics um

the power supply

the switch uh

for turning it on and off

etcetera so I'm going to slice this down

and then slice it down on the table saw

and then I'm gonna chuck it in the mill

and do a lot of hugging out

yeah here we go

come

on

ah

ah ah

better ah

ha ha

it is the next morning

another morning um

last night at the end of the day

we had some difficulties

we did not cover on camera

I I just wanna

cover them because we were about to

we were about to leave the casting

overnight and pour it again this morning when norm

remembered to ask me

if I had put mold release on the mold and I had not

ladies and gentlemen

on our final mold

that was the clutch question

cause that was the last possible second

we could have gotten this done in the timeline we have

I felt so bad asking you the question

because I saw the next

hour we had another mold built and poured

and it's perfect in 25 minutes yeah

and I've been doing a little bit of

separating of the old mold

with the mold release

and I just like when I hit this

if this separates

I'll feel very good

all right ah

wow yeah okay

clean pristine

still polishable

and this is this is our test casting so yeah

the screen is receded more than we need

but this is the proof of concept okay

so um you wanna bring over that motherboard

yes this is our test

this assembly

oh my God okay

so here we go I'm gonna

that's the screen

uh huh and here comes the bad

I think that actually

the best way to do the battery is just like this

okay yeah yeah

yeah yeah okay

batteries in and now it is um

it's shorting two contracts right

uh huh do we have

here you go wait

but where are they

I believe they are on oh um

the other side

yes they are

you are right

they are okay

hold on hold on

here we go 3 2 Jordan

a moment of truth

wait

I think you hold it longer than you think

think about how long

we depress the power button on a phone

oh what haha

it worked haha

I was really thinking that was the last ditch

it's not gonna work

we're gonna have to oh

this is wild dude

I did not think that was going to work

I really thought that was not going to fly

it is running okay

so now we wanna see if we can fire this up

with the other motherboard this is to

determine whether there's a hardware handshake for this

right right

because we have our phone disassembled

but none of the hardware suspended in

the resin is actually running the screen

that's gonna be from a different donor phone Adam

Adam Adam Adam

it's working

I shouldn't really have to be relieved

very relieved

relieved one

that the casting has worked

that means that our second port will go

super relieved that the screen works I did not

I was not positive that was gonna be 100 percenter

and look how good it look yeah

it really does look gorgeous

we'll do us some polishing on that um

but I am super

super happy

so I think your next step is the actual

the laying out of this in our

our cured resin uh

that means that um

we're gonna mix up a full batch of resin

but not pour it right away

because I'm gonna spend like an hour

positioning this in a thin layer of that resin

and then we'll pour the rest due to final positioning

all right here and then

put it in the pressure pot

I'll hold my breath the entire time

♪ ♪ ♪

alright

alright

uh so we've successfully

cast the phone into clear resin

the battery puffed up a little bit

but that's fine

the puffery only happened on the backside

the front side

looks really great

uh it needs a bunch of sanding

I'm gonna have to start with

I think a 400 grit and go up to 1,000

and then some novice polishes

but I believe

well sorry I'm getting ahead of myself

the next thing for me to do is to free the cable

this is right now the most important cable in my life

I wanna free that and I wanna test the screen

and once I've tested the screen and it works

then I'm going to get down to protecting that cable

and polishing this up

getting it in the stand so we can power it up

but first let's make sure I haven't

broken this cable

there we are

we're free and the cable is not broken

we got it it's working

dude hahaha okay

this is gonna be non trivial to fit this into here

so I get this much cable

it's about an inch and a half

and in order to make the driver work

I'll need to be able to twist this 90 degrees

and it looks like I will be able to

but um the port that receives

this in here will have to have a hole in the bottom

that this comes through and then twist

so I can attach the rest of it

but that all seems quite doable at this point

yeah yeah

yeah

alright that went really

really well

the 320 grit pulled all the topographical muckery off

it removes material off of this uh

crystal clear 2:04 really

really well

um I brought this to 1,000 grit

you can see that it's already

starting to show its best qualities

I'm very pleased

and I'm about to hit this with some novice polish

and that really should be the thing that

makes the whole thing pop

it's a three step system

so the first one is heavy

second one is fine and the third one is clean and shine

so here we go

yeah I'm just going to be gooping that on there

oh I can already see it starting to sing

oh this is so cool

I know I have that Proxon polisher

that could have done this

the one I did the

the the the

the helmet of the lost and space helmet

but I can't find it anywhere

it's nowhere in this building as far as I can tell

so I'm gonna do all this polishing my hand

I am really happy with that

haha

oh

huh

I'm so happy uh

I threw a resistor in there to

lower the brightness of the chip on board LED strip yep

very happy with how that came out

and here comes the phone

external switch turning on this phone

here we go boo

dude this this cable here is not connected no

it's just a programming cable

we can play we can charge through that

this is a literally I can take out the lights here

and this here is a self contained phone yeah

haha I'm looking at the drawing and Adam

it's looks just like that

you're oh my God

it's exact nothing makes me happier than that

we this this is like yeah

that is a in every way the uh

except I put these on the back instead of on the front

um such a fun project

so many unknowns going into this

we didn't know

no one with we could disassemble and have it

how many components we need to plug in have it operate

yeah uh doing a test casting

we Learned so much working with

the resin for the first time and

and let's be clear

it is a particular producing problem to solve um

about how to make something

and be done with it in time for the clients needs

this was almost a rush for us in terms of

the technologies

we didn't know about

the problems we had to solve along the way and I

it's not like we squeaked across the wire

I'm really happy with how it came out

but it involved

like you said

a bunch of learning

oh my god and it beautifully displays as a sculpture

all the components of the 1 plus 12

I mean got the wireless charging pad

the cameras

three cameras right there

four cameras

front facing cameras

well we got the haptic module

we got the yeah

that coil it's just

it's been a real education

um taking apart this phones

mucking about with them

tinker toying them

and then executing this display awesome

I want to thank OnePlus for giving us opportunity

yeah for doing this project

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thank you guys for joining us for this

I I Learned a lot watching a magic trick unfold

haha totally

thanks for joining us guys yeah

oh my

God