A YouTuber fed up that the mobiles were bored and theirs was built. The result is gloriously absurd

An American youtuber named Marcin Plaza, boring from the lack of innovation in the design of our mobile phones, wanted to prove to create one that adapted to their needs. He succeeded, of course, although the final result has raised some controversy because more than innovative what he has achieved is a “retroinnovator” mobile.

What happened. This youtuber is known for its “Frankenstein” device experiments, and a few months ago he published a video in which he explained how he managed to replace the keyboard of his Lenovo Yoga laptop for a mechanical onecreating a unique combination. Now he has returned to the streets, but with a singular experiment: to take advantage of his Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 To create your own mobile.

That physical keyboards live. Plaza decided that he would take advantage of the outer display of Z Flip 5 and combine it with the physical keyboard of an old Blackberry Q10 of 2013. The idea was simple to get that keyboard to become a sliding keyboard that is hidden under the screen of its Z Flip 5 broken. But of course, one thing was to say it, and another to do it.

An infernal process. In the video in which the entire Plaza process begins, it begins by destroying the Z Flip 5 and checking which components could save. He then designed a housing to print it on a CNC machine – only numerous tests with a 3D printer – and also created a small circuit using an Arduino Pro micro controller that allowed him to adapt the old blackberry keyboard.

Looking for solutions. The difficulties did not end there, and to allow the opening of all applications on the small front screen Plaza ended up using Samsung’s Good Lock application and its multistar module. This unique user even ended up adding a magnetic ring for wireless load.

This mobile sounds to me. After numerous additional digital DIY tests and operations, Plaza managed to create what he expected: a “Frankenstein” mobile with a small frontal screen and a sliding keyboard underneath. The curious thing – or maybe not – is that this mobile had already been invented 15 years ago. It did the same company from which he took his keyboard, because we are talking about The BlackBerry Torch that first launched in 2010.

A hardly replicable experiment. The creator of this curious mobile has shared Some of the project detailsbut it is difficult to replicate it because the only guide to do so is the video he has published on YouTube. Be that as it may, the final result is surprising – especially, because it works – but also paradoxical: the title of the video is “I built my own mobile … because at present innovation is sad”, but its mobile has little innovative. That doesn’t really matter too much: achieving something like that is certainly remarkable.

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