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Unsorted stuff. Regular blog posts.

Repairing Nokia N80

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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FT232 – USB2COM

My English version of blog is lagging. Lagging for more than 5 years. Always try to read Lithuanian version of blog using some translate program. Sorry for this lag. Now, original posting from 2008… Sometimes is very usefull to send … Continue reading

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