Category Archives: Anything

Unsorted stuff. Regular blog posts.

It will kill me…

(How to destroy universe, abstract) 🙂 You said:On other way, when AI will gain power and conquer the world, you can not find me without login?Copilot said:Haha, I appreciate your sense of humor! The idea of AI gaining power and … Continue reading

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Groundhog Day radio

(AI translated, original post from 2022.06.02) Groundhog Day radio. Well, not quite, the original is the Panasonic RC-6025, but mine is a Sanyo Sterocast RM5320, probably manufactured in 1972 (it could also be under another brand, such as Siemens alpha). … Continue reading

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ARM35: LCD and FSMC on STM32Fxxx

(AI translated from 2022.05.02) Short prehistory: we collected some PCBs with STM32F103 chips and an unknown LCD. The LCDs were of two types, and the PCBs were also of several variants. Some had another STM32 BGA chip and ROM/RAM chips. … Continue reading

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A Little Bit of Everything

(AI translated, from April 16, 2022) There are no interesting projects, so this will be a small gallery and some grumbling. I’ve complained about this more than once: Some industrial “chiller.” It seems we’ve already stepped well into the 21st … Continue reading

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Strange Bulb

(AI translated, from March 19, 2022) A rather unusual bulb came into my hands: bulb Only two contacts. Based on the design, it looks like it could be a photo or some particle detector. Applying around 4kVDC causes a discharge … Continue reading

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Epochal Yard Event

(AI translated, from March 2022) You go to the countryside for a bit, and when you come back home, you notice changes in the landscape. No wonder those suspicious old men were hanging around. Why on a Saturday? One of … Continue reading

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Software for XRF

(AI translated) For several years now, Olympus has not been able to make decent software. Even the most elementary errors are still not fixed, and don’t even ask about the graphs. In my work, I sometimes need to compare the … Continue reading

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Lack of PCIe lanes?

(AI translated, from 2022.02) I have already written that I use many small disks. Together with the remaining large disks, it totals 10 disks. And I have always wanted to use some fancy RAID controller. However, no matter how many … Continue reading

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Mental Exercise: SVG Language Interpreter

(AI translated) It all starts with a small nonsense: I decided to put a USB port logo on a 3D printed product. I couldn’t quickly find any STL file (for free or download without registration). So I thought to myself—well, … Continue reading

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XRF analyser

Unfortunately, January was completely empty. A bit of fiddling here, a bit of fiddling there. Some FPGA experiments with soft processors, some uninteresting repairs, some computers, and some programming. Nothing that could really interest readers. Maybe this unfinished repair will … Continue reading

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