Category Archives: Vandalising

Just making fun by destroying stuff

Groundhog Day radio

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Administrator

(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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Anything with palm and BT (Bluetooth)

Posted on December 23, 2024 by Administrator

(AI translated from 2022.05.24.) There isn’t much time to write anything properly, so here are a few random photos: Oh dear, those are “keemkės”! Russian and Soviet palladium with platinum. This is some kind of coaxial splitter. Probably powerful. This … Continue reading →

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A Little Bit of Everything

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Administrator

(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

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Administrator

(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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XRF repair

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Administrator

(AI translated) Continuing while still feeling under the weather (symptoms suggest COVID, but PCR says no), I took another look at the old XRF. I have already somewhat explained how it works and mentioned that the “black fin” isn’t trying … Continue reading →

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Ultra expensive keyboard

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Administrator

(AI translated) Those who have traveled by air will probably recognize these keyboards. This is an industrial-level keyboard with ‘cherry’ keys and add-ons. This also shows that Windows was very happy when I connected it to the computer. This is … Continue reading →

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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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