Category Archives: Vandalising

Just making fun by destroying stuff

Quick hack – optical mouse for Amiga (or Atari) computer

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Administrator

I was testing old Amiga computer and noticed, that somewhere I lost the mouse. It is proprietary mouse for Amiga computer, it even does not work with Atari ones. The mouse itself is very simple- only raw quadrature information is … Continue reading →

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Capacitive soil moisture sensor – designed by retarded

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Administrator

There is a cheap, made in China product called “capacitive soil moisture sensor”. Some black PCB with few components and no coating: There are lots of “duino” projects for this sensor. But there are lots of comments about this sensor … Continue reading →

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Repair of the Atari 2600 jr

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Administrator

I found PCB from the classic 2600 JR. It was forcefully removed from the case maybe using a hammer. The PCB is bent, some parts torn out and missing switches. PCB was cracked and several traces were broken. I repaired … Continue reading →

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Fancy soldering

Posted on March 22, 2020 by Administrator

Good fellow donated my collection with a new item- Sharp PC-2500. The only big problem- this old computer had caustic batteries inside and they leaked. Alkaline used in the batteries has a very ugly feature- it can travel under conformal … Continue reading →

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Fake Sony USB flash disk

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Administrator

One man brought small souvenir from China. It is cool 32Gb Sony flash disk. The only problem is that it is fake, and not such size. The device is made quite well. Solid box with all needed information. The device … Continue reading →

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Wireless mouse

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Administrator

I am using wireless mouse for several years. Recently I collected some same model spare mice for my experiments. It is low frequency (~27MHz, CB band!) mouse with docking station to charge two AAA batteries. All other specifications are typical. … Continue reading →

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Car MP3 player

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Administrator

In local supermarket I bought small car MP3 player. It cost about $25 (79Ltl). It is USB MP3 player with FM modulator. Just plug it to cigarette igniter socket, tune car radio, put your USB flash memory stick and enjoy … Continue reading →

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Logitech Z-640

Posted on January 6, 2007 by Administrator

Today we’ll open quite big Logitech Z-640 sound system sub-woofer. According the specifications: Total output power: 70 Watts RMS Subwoofer power output: 25 Watts RMS Satellite speaker power output: 45 Watts RMS (9 Watts RMS per channel) Total peak power: … Continue reading →

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Xoro DVD player

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Administrator

Let’s look inside Xoro DVD/DivX/Xvid player. I received few HSD 310 for disassembling. HSD 310 is lite version of HSD 415- only additional audio and video outputs installed and 5.1 sound support. There are less components than in Vido DVD … Continue reading →

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4 Mpix camera

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Administrator

Typical simple digital camera, so called soapbox, is quite expensive (in our country) device and it is carefully handled by user. And nobody opens the camera body just for fun. All digital cameras are quite complicated electronic devices and more, … Continue reading →

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