I had an old 2-in-1 laptop that wasn’t really usable anymore. The screen was gone, the hinge wasn’t reliable, and using it as a laptop just didn’t make sense.
But the internals still worked.
So instead of fixing it or throwing it away, I decided to turn it into something else: a small, dedicated mini PC for watching movies with a projector.
The process involved taking it apart, figuring out what to keep, designing a structure to hold everything together, and building a custom enclosure around it. There were mistakes along the way, especially with measurements and setup, but that’s part of how these projects take shape.
What I like about builds like this is that they shift the purpose of an object. It stops being what it was originally designed for and becomes something more personal.
If you want to see the full process, I’ve documented everything here: YouTube
