A jigsaw puzzle made from a gadget
Channel: fluffymcdeath
Date: 2013-07-16

This one may be a bit nerdy, but ...

The backlight went out almost as soon as the screen sank beneath the surface. I've been around previous meetings of water and tech - gameboy in the toilet, cell phone in the toilet, cell phone in the pool ...

Those items were built of sturdy stock and being old fashioned as they were they lent themselves to easily disconnecting the power and coming apart in nice dryable chunks.

This gadget though, this gadget is one of the most complicated that I have inadvertently submerged.

It's kind of impotant in such situations to prevent any electricity flowing through the internals as the corrosion that rapidly occurs can be quite destructive to the small conductors in these things. The big lithium batteries can easily provide enough electrons to chew away the metals in the traces.

In my haste to neutralize the power source (and get far enough into the guts to blow out the excess liquid) I excercised slightly less than optimal care and attention.