has been delayed by the fact something is dying/has died/is under stress in my Powerbook’s LCD. So I can’t type for long before all goes dark. I hope it is a dodgy wire. I suspect it is the backlight inverter. I really, really hope it isn’t the backlight.
Category Archives: electronics
CatCam
I’ve often wondered just what my cats get up to when they shoot out of the house in the morning heading for parts local, but unknown. I’ve pondered fitting them out with a camera to capture their day, but never done more then ponder it. A chap in America has taken the idea and made …
Happiness is a warm gun hot soldering iron.
Things are getting along quite well in the new lab. Large pieces of aluminium have been turned into small pieces of aluminium (and a lot of swarf), spectrometers have been upgraded and calibrated, and I’ve just finished building some constant current regulators for low currents. The current regulators don’t work how I thought they should, …
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