Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Exploded Phone Sculpture!
Summary
TLDRAdam 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
😀 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.
🚧 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.
📱 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.
😊 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.
🔬 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.
⏳ 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.
👷♂️ 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.
🚀 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.
🛠 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.
🎉 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.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Phone disassembly
💡Resin casting
💡Acrylic mold
💡Exothermic reaction
💡Pressure chamber
💡Polishing
💡Driver phone
💡Oxygen OS
💡Magic trick
💡Trophy display
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
and with more information
if you want to learn more about the OnePlus 12 in
description below
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
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