7 Pairs of Nerdy Earrings From 1 Motherboard

Do you like computers and want the world to know it?

Are you fabulously fashionable in the nerdiest of ways?

Do you enjoy crafting and creating?

Do you have a dead computer sitting in a closet somewhere?

If you answered yes to any of these, this may be the Instructable for you!

Here is What You'll Need

• A Motherboard
• Beading Wire
• Jump Rings
• Jewelry Snips
• Flat and/or Needlenose Pliers

Using your pliers, gently rock the capacitors back and forth until the leads loosen. Don't rock it too much or else the leads will just break off inside the capacitor and it will make the next steps more difficult.

Once it is loose, pull the capacitor straight up so the leads slide right out.

Inductors are a bit more difficult. They are soldered onto the board, so you must cut the 2 wires that attach it to the board.

There are several sizes and styles of inductors on motherboards, but they are all removed the same way. Just be careful not to cut yourself, the wires are sharp!

You will likely need to clean up the snipped area, I just used my snips to cut them flush so no pointy bits were sticking out.

Using your flat pliers, gently pry underneath the port and try not to bend the wires. Once it is a bit loose, rock it to get it loosened more.

Then use your pliers to pull the port straight up so that the port slides off the wires.

I only used the PCI-E port, as it was small enough for earrings.

Snip off the tiny nubs that held it in place on the board so the back side is flat.

If you look at the bottom of the capacitor where it was connected to the motherboard, you will see two small holes.

Open up a jump ring and insert each side of the jump ring into on of the holes. Press down until the jump ring is securely seated in the capacitor.

Repeat for each capacitor.

Once you have your capacitor charms, you can adorn them anyway you like to make adorable earrings.

Add a simple earring loop, a chain of jump rings, or use beading wire to add some flair to it.

Take a bit of beading wire, and poke it through the center of your inductors. I like to use the largest ones I can find for this earring set.

Twist up the wire on top of your inductors and add a loop. Attach an earring hoop, and voila!

Easy and awesome!

For this one, you'll need two sizes of inductors and some beading wire.

Like the last one, pass it through the center of the larger inductor and twist it up a bit.

Take each end of the beading wire and pass it through one side of the smaller inductor.

Twist it up on top of the smaller inductor, snip off the extra and add a small loop to attach your earring hook.

These are my favorite pair out of the 7 I made today.

Take your PCI-E port and pass beading wire through it. (I find it easier through the back, the holes are smaller.)

Wrap it up on top, twist it and add a loop so you can attach your earring hooks.

Enjoy your fabulous PCI-E(arrings).

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