Found some good info concerning the ATtiny85. The ATtiny85 is an 8-bit RISC based microcontroller I’m interested in.
Category Archives: Electronics
The smallest and worst HDMI display ever
This is great: The smallest and worst HDMI display ever. There’s a write up over here. This guy has plugged an OLED device directly into the HDMI port on his laptop. On a related note, I thought Craig would appreciate this one: Building a tiny steampunk “HDMI” display from the same author (recommend watching at 2x speed).
Home Electronics Lab
I enjoyed watching this guy demo his electronics lab: Home Electronics Lab. But mine is better! :)
MagPi
I discovered the MagPi magazine. A Raspberry Pi magazine free in PDF format.
BEAM Robotics
See The BEAM Reference Library for an interesting take on robotics.
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*
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!?