In the watchmaking industry there are not only cogs and gears. Nowadays, even the high watchmaking industry focuses on sophisticated digital technology, to combine it with the fine art of mechanics. And it exists, once open-source, even an RTOS owned by Swatch, for which I had the pleasure to use, and mostly to be mentored … Continue reading The EdoSplay RTC project
One of few repairs that went smooth and succesful. Using a monitor with integrated USB hub can be useful, but also tricky, if such hubs are designed in a cheap way or is not fool proof, and I am a fool. If that is the case, overloading the output lead to a dead port. And … Continue reading AOC I2475PXQU LCD monitor – teardown and repair
I have some kind of interest in electronic projects, whether hobbists or a professional ones, which are based on standard and always available sub-components. Those always available parts are also called jelly bean components, like resistors, capacitors and cheap basic parts, like op amps (including in my opinion also LM741, LM324, even TL081 and the … Continue reading Switching converters nostalgia: a brief history
If you like playing with lab instruments, enjoy to make things and design electronic stuff, you are probably attracted from the idea of create a new powerful (with some limitations) bench power supply by using an old ATX supply. Moreover, I need an high power supply to test my motors. For sure, building your own … Continue reading The classic hardware hacking: ATX power supply
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