So I popped the heat sink off the CPU in my ‘chipped’ Xbox. I wasn’t able to get the heat sink off the device to the left of that, which might be the graphics card? I’m not sure. I gave it a pretty mighty tug and it didn’t come loose, so not sure what the deal is there. I cleaned the CPU and the heat sink (I damaged the heat sink a little, you can see the scratches).
So my Xbox hacking project is under way. Just planning to work my way through bunnie’s book.
Today I discovered Understanding SMD size code which does a good job of explaining imperial vs metric SMD/SMT size codes. Note “SMT” means Surface Mount Technology and “SMD” means Surface Mount Device.
I saw this Hewlett Packard HP 8018A Serial Data Generator for sale for US $2,000 after having seen it mentioned over on Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal. That sent me off trying to see if I could get my UTG962E from the UNI-T UTG900E series arbitrary function waveform generator to transmit a custom waveform. I managed to get the software installed on Windows and apparently I can upload any of *.sav, *.rec, *.dat, *.uwr, *.wfr, *.wf to my waveform generator, but I have no idea how to generate such files.
This via r/programming today: IBM open sources $300 fully-functional LEGO® microscope design.
I’ve been learning about Pull-up and Pull-down Resistors.
For fun and learning I’d like to investigate making a probe which can measure my heartbeat via my scope.
I’m watching Oscilloscopes for beginners and it mentions the OSC482 USB scope. Think I should get me one of those to play with.
Learning about the Buffer Gate.
I’m trying to debug some Arduino code with my mate Aleksei, but I really need my new scope (which hasn’t arrived yet) so I can see what’s actually going on. I might circle back to this in the near future.
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