Today I read In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell. It’s an old essay about how we should all work less.
In Praise of Idleness
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Monthly Archives: July 2022
Dead caps
Over on the Nichicon Wikipedia article they say: “From 2001 to 2004, Nichicon produced defective capacitors (“HM” and “HN” series) that were used by major computer manufacturers”.
This is what those HM series caps looked like in an Xbox I opened yesterday:
OGXbox trace corrosion repair
I made some notes on the process of OGXbox trace corrosion repair. I was working on a particular v1.4 board and needed to fix Trace A, but the board was still dead after the replacement. *sigh*
Xbox games
I have more Xbox games than you do.
XboxHD+
Oh man, gotta get me one of these: XboxHD+.
Living the life
A happy snap from my lab as it looks today.
In use: PCB Circuit Board Holder
Here’s a picture of my new PCB Circuit Board Holder in use holding a v1.0 Xbox motherboard:
Pretty nifty!
PCB Circuit Board Holder
Today my new PCB Circuit Board Holder arrived. Where has this been all my life!?
Adapters
Yes, I have that adapter. No, I can’t find it.
Lifetime supply of pin headers…
I accidentally ordered 25x 1.27mm Pin Headers, and then realised they come in a 10 pack. So I have 250 2×6 pin headers on the way. Whoops. :P