SNES Video fix and Scart mod
This is round 2 for the SNES. It has had a re-cap in the past but some of the leaky cap juice was missed and continued to corrode away traces. This was found out while trying to get a SNES scart cable working. Fixing capacitor leakage First step was neutralising the...
Making a Nintendo DS Macro XL
All this started from watching the Macho Nacho video about making a Gameboy Macro using a faulty Nintendo DS or DS XL. Doing the mod As referenced in the youtube video I just followed the guide here on gameboymacro.com. All you need is a couple of 330 ohm resistors...
Fixing a Joytech Component Video Switcher
After a powercut / surge this Joytech component switcher decided to died along the the OG Xbox that was plugged into it. Stripdown of the unit Stripping down the unit was fairly straight forward. Everything looked fine and there was no immediate problem...
Flood damaged PS3 3DTV’s
I was offered a deal, get some PS3 3DTV's working by reflashing the firmware and I get to keep one of them. The downside was that just before I was going to pick them up most of them got stuck in flood waters. Starting condition The first 2 I picked up were before the...
Restoring a 1950s Bandsaw
This bandsaw came from my grandads shed. Was completely falling apart and always tripped the breakers in the house. After 3yrs sitting in my sisters garage it was time to bring it back to life and put it back into service. Starting Condition The starting condition was...
Atari 2600 UnoCarts
A quick and fast project to make a "multicart" for the Atari 2600. The UnoCart 2600 is an open source SD card based multicart for the Atari 2600. My build was based off UnoCart 2600 v1.03 project here on the PCBWay community projects. The project is based around the...
PS3 CFW with full game library
I never planned to get into PS3 but I ended up with a few, and specifically a Backwards compatible one. After I fixed the YLOD issues the next step was to CFW mod it and dump all my games so I can get rid of the physical copies I dont want, also means I can dump...
PS3 YLOD Recapping
Everyone has heard about the PS3 Tokin recap process, all I can say is that it is painful and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Before This was not the first time this PS3 has been stripped down to the motherboard. You can see that the CPU and RSX have been delidded and...
BlueSCSI V1 and V2
Down the SCSI rabbit hole I went when the drives in my Macintosh SE/30 and Macintosh Color Classic both died. I did a big order of V1 and V2 PCB's on different occasions in the hope of making a bunch for my friends and community members which also covers some of my...
The biggest Ultrasonic Cleaner
The pickup I was accumulating a very large amount old motherboards and computers with really bad corrosion that a toothbrush and iso wouldn't remove. Keeping an eye out I saw a 30L ultrasonic cleaner online for a silly cheap price and I just couldn't resist the...