If you’ve never watched Halt and Catch Fire, it is a pretty good show. There is one scene where the main character is reverse engineering the BIOS of IBM’s computer, by placing the memory in a circuit and addressing each
Soldering Workstation
So I thought I’d post a quick picture of my soldering setup. Before the picture though, I do have some things I want to acknowledge. First, I understand that having some form of anti-static mat is extremely important. I just
Organizing My Recycled ICs
In my previous post about recycling ICs from old circuit boards, I covered the desoldering gun I used to pull components from a circuit board. Now I will show how I go about organizing these components. I got a whole
The Rostock of Theseus – Part 3: Wifi to Ethernet
I was having issues with my Duet Wifi on a University network – something about the way the traffic was routed caused me to get upload speeds around 18 kb/s. So I purchased the Ethernet daughterboard from Think3dPrint3d – they
The Rostock of Theseus – Part 2: First Upgrades, Duet Wifi, FSR, PanelDue, and E3D V6
So after playing around with my stock Rostock Max V3 printer, and getting some decent prints, I decided that I needed to take a fully functional printer and modify it for no reason. Well, there actually were a few reasons.
The Rostock of Theseus – Part 1: Stock
Borrowing from the Ship of Theseus – a thought experiment that goes like this: if you replace all of the components of a ship, is it still the same ship? Which brings me to introduce my 3D printer, the Ship
Recycling Components From Circuit Boards
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