Makerbot Replicator 2 Restoration
I don't think I would ever recommend buying a broken 3D printer as your first printer, it is a very steep learning curve. One thing is for certain though, you quickly learn how it all works and I don't think I could have chosen a better one to begin on. The MakerBot...
4×4 Fuzz Experiment Pedal
As with a lot of my projects they seem to be long running and never get done. Well with the 2020 lockdown I had plenty of time to get through some projects, probably obvious by the volume of things I have been posting lately. Well this one was an idea I have had for a...
Quick and Clean audio switching
After needing getting to a point of upgrading my main rigs to a ultrawide screen and going between PC and Mac I came into the strange need to have a way to switch the 3.5mm audio out to run into my desktop speakers. I tried using the speaker/audio out from my monitor...
Building a proper NAS
This was one of the longest running projects that I have had running. Since forever I have tried to get a proper media storage solution working. It first started with when I had the 4 bay DroboProFS. It was good for years but always had some gotcha's. It was tethered...
Building the most modern Windows 98 PC
This was one of the most frustrating projects that I have done do date. It took me right back to those painful days of installing drivers, blue screens, crashes, hardware incompatibilities and re-installs. I don't think I have installed any OS more than Windows 98. On...
Gradual upgrades to a 350z
In an on-going to quest to log all the projects that I work on I am going to keep this article as a running log of all the improvements, changes and maintenance I have done to my 350z. Blacking out the badges and bumper I had seen a few Z's rolling around with blacked...
One pedal board to rule them all
This article was suppose to be two different articles but I took so long to do them that I ended up making a new pedal board and thought I would just create one log entry for them both. As usual I have made to many of something and I wanted to have a pedal board for...
The electronic hobbyist essentials
Over the years of fixing stuff I have managed to gather a pretty good selection of tools and equipment that has allowed me to fix and repair almost anything that has come across my desk so I thought it was about time I did an article detailing out what I think it is...
My Dream Dual boot Windows XP / Windows 10 PC
This project turned out to be one of the longest running projects I had for a long time. With part failures, changes and upgrades it just never seemed to be done. Well I finally finished it up and it is going to stay this way now ( except I need to now replace...
Toolbox Essentials
Thought I would do a bit of a run down of what I consider my 'Toolbox Essentials'. These are the minimum tools that I consider you must have in a home workshop toolbox. Everyday tools These I consider everyday tools, I use these everyday and every week on almost all...