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old CO2 laser to cut … meat

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Administrator

We were recycling some medical equipment in 2008. And I found broken CO2 laser tube. So here is abridged translation of old article about laser tubes. BTW, after several years I bough hobby level CO2 laser for plastic and wood … Continue reading →

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Repairing Nokia N80

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Administrator

Yeap, it was cool to have Nokia N8 in 2008. And it was cool to repair it… Original post from spring 2008: This is consequences of certified repair of Nokia N80. Old metal case was damaged and was replaced. First … Continue reading →

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Dekatron

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Administrator

Wiki: Dekatron (or Decatron, or generically three-phase gas counting tube or glow-transfer counting tube or cold cathode tube) is a gas-filled decade counting tube. Dekatrons were used in computers, calculators and other counting-related products during the 1950s and 1960s. “Dekatron,” … Continue reading →

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Color LCD screens

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Administrator

This is another “filler” article from old blog posts. When I don’t have any fresh and interesting ideas, I just write short filler articles to show regular blog reader that I am still allive. For this English translation blog these … Continue reading →

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Infrared thermometer

Posted on March 14, 2015 by Administrator

Ometimes I need to desolder big chips from PCB- like motherboards controllers, GPUs and other “heavy equipment”. For this purpose I used big hot air gun without any thermocontrol. To check the temperature of the chip I need something simple. … Continue reading →

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Site status for 2015.03.11

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Administrator

I decided to “fast translate” my Lithuanian blog articles to English language. There is no special English posts here. This is done for English language readers- my Lithuanian language blog is almoust untranslatable by google translate- it is written in … Continue reading →

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Mess-up with Kynar wires

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Administrator

This is translation of old blog post from april 2008. I am very happy, that exist such thing as Kynar wires… I used some other PCB for foreign software and messed up some port names in AVR ATMEGA controller. So … Continue reading →

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Acer n35 GPS

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Administrator

This is abridged translation of old Lithuanian web blog article date from 2008. I’ve sold several 5AR4 vacuum radio tubes in auction and received several virtual bucks. This was very small ammount of money, so I decided to buy somethis … Continue reading →

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Logic analyser

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Administrator

Original post from 2008, now there are good alternatives to this experiment. There is one very usefull and practical instrument for hobbyist- logic analyser. This is just instrument to collect variuos multichannel data to computer ant then analyse it offline. … Continue reading →

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High power white LED and Liion battery from laptop

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Administrator

This is old post. Original post dated 2008.03. You can visit it at original page in Lithuanian blog. Also try to read comments to this blog post. The old post is about LED light torch using lots of typical small … Continue reading →

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