I have always wanted to build a very high end Batocera emulation rig that can run everything from an Atari 2600/C64 all the way to up a Playstation 3. This is what I came up with. Case and main parts The whole build is based around the NR200P, a nice SFF ITX case that...
Due to my Giant Reign 2 being a 2016 model it was well over due for a full service and parts upgrade. I opted to do the full works. Fork Servicing The first thing to be upgraded/serviced was the shocks. They are in good condition but have never had their "yearly"...
I discovered a big C64 Collection with all sorts of projects in it, can be found here. I couldn't help myself but to build another SD2IEC. Build The SD2IEC LP is a much nicer build than my other one as it plugs into the tape port for the power and has a pig tail for...
These ESR meters were not a planned project. I was given a bunch of PCB's by my dad so I could test capacitors in circuit in old CRT's and computers. Pair that with finding the last of the multimeter style LCD's at Jaycar and I had to make them up. PCBs The PCB's came...
My obsession with Thinkpads started with a run to the Tip Shop and spotting a pair of laptop old Thinkpads, and it only snow balled from there. Starting off with a R50 and R51 The pair were an R50 and R51e, with the later having a broken screen. My hope was that I...
After realising that the Core 2 Quad Xeon rig I built a few years earlier was totally bottlenecking the GTX Titan in my Dual Booted Windows XP / Windows 10 Gaming Rig / workshop PC I started doing some digging and found out that one of the last platforms to support...
It was a pain to solder surface mount parts on small boards and the hot air gun is annoying to use for really small parts and the reball machine was too big, enter the Solder Reflow Plate a Atmega 328p based reflow solution. Reflow Plate PCBs The project files can be...
I had been having issues with my childhood PS1's for a while, one of them had a bad laser and the other started displaying grey scale only and the CD drive making awful noises. Figured I would finally address it. Motherboard issues Only one of the units had issues, it...
As soon I realised that you could solid state swap classic iPods I had to have one. And as expected, I ended up with 3 of them. 1x 80GB, 1x 120GB and 1x 160GB. What I started with All 3 of them had issues and was why I got them cheap. The 120gb had a bad click wheel,...
After a bad power surge both my original crystal xbox and the component switcher died a horrible death. This started with the dreaded flashing orange light. The Symptoms Orange flashing lights and bad capacitors were the start of this project. It took a while to...