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  • Teardown Fail & Salvage Win: When Hardware Dies Young
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Teardown Fail & Salvage Win: When Hardware Dies Young

Electronic
Battery Salvage, DIY, Electronics, ESP32, Teardown

The “Two-Month” Curse This device landed on my desk courtesy of a coworker. It had been working fine for her for about two months before it suddenly quit. Interestingly enough,

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StreamElements Dropping Frames

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I decided to take up streaming again, but I ran into a problem of only getting >1000kbps upload, and dropped frames skyrocketing. I already have ethernet ran, so I am

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image of nintendo switch joy con, open, with a broken bumper for RB above Dec 12, 2024
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Reviving a Nintendo Switch Joy-Con: A Bumper’s Journey Back to Life

Electronic, Gaming
Electronic, gaming, Repair, Solder

My Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons have seen their fair share of button-mashing action over the years. Recently, I ran into a frustrating issue: the right bumper on one of my Joy-Cons

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Image of computer tower, cleaned Dec 10, 2024
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A Second Life for an Acer Aspire XC-603G

Computers
Computer, Electronic, Repair

My DIY Automatic Ripping Machine Introduction Two years ago, I stumbled upon an old Acer Aspire XC-603G that was destined for the electronic graveyard. Instead of discarding it, I decided

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Aug 3, 2022
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Lightning Strikes

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Life, Lightning, Security, Storm

The security camera caught some great stills last night!

Mar 6, 2022
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Glorious Purpose

Computers, Electronic
keyboard, keycaps
Jan 15, 2022
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Small penguin, small battery

Electronic
4056, Battery, Electronic, Penguin, Solder

This post was written around Christmas on a test WordPress site, and I really wanted it here. So here it is! It worked extremely well, and is now resting with

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Jan 1, 2022
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Solder to repair ram?

Computers

This will be another quick one. Yes, as the title says, I had to solder a small wire from a via to a pad on a stick of ram. The

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Dec 31, 2021
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Never tell me the odds

Computers

There may be a rapid fire of posts in the near future, as I go through my Google Photos and find old projects. I’ll start with this quick one. My

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Dec 17, 2021
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