So I needed a female to female gender changer so I could convert a male VGA plug to female, and while I was there I figured I might as well get 2 pieces of each and have the full set, but I did feel a little bit silly placing an order for a male to female gender changer… I don’t understand why they are even on the market.
Category Archives: Hardware
Make: Design for CNC
Today I’m reading my copy of Make: Design for CNC. I don’t have access to a CNC router but I’d like to learn a little about what’s possible.
100kGarages
Today I discovered 100kgarages.com. Seems like a cool idea. Not sure they’re operating in my area!
How to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu
When I finally get a PCIe IDE adapter that works, this is gonna come in handy: How to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu.
The IDE adapter that I have is this one, but it reports all disks as damaged (and they’re not). I think maybe it’s too new for the drives maybe? Speaking a newer version of the ATA protocol? I have no idea really.
I made a thing!
My new AV switch arrived today, and I set it up on my bench. But I had it laid out horizontally and it was taking up a lot of bench space and I decided I’d rather have it mounted vertically.
So I got an old component box like this one
from my drawer
and cut it up so I could mount my AV switch vertically, like this:
Bug fixed!
Notkia @ Hackster
This is great: Notkia. I’m gonna have to spend some time checking out Hackster.io.
Xbox CPU thermal paste replacement
So I popped the heat sink off the CPU in my ‘chipped’ Xbox. I wasn’t able to get the heat sink off the device to the left of that, which might be the graphics card? I’m not sure. I gave it a pretty mighty tug and it didn’t come loose, so not sure what the deal is there. I cleaned the CPU and the heat sink (I damaged the heat sink a little, you can see the scratches).
Xbox hacking
So my Xbox hacking project is under way. Just planning to work my way through bunnie’s book.
The Two Percent Solution
This is old (20 years old!), but fun: The Two Percent Solution.
Hewlett Packard HP 8018A Serial Data Generator
I saw this Hewlett Packard HP 8018A Serial Data Generator for sale for US $2,000 after having seen it mentioned over on Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal. That sent me off trying to see if I could get my UTG962E from the UNI-T UTG900E series arbitrary function waveform generator to transmit a custom waveform. I managed to get the software installed on Windows and apparently I can upload any of *.sav, *.rec, *.dat, *.uwr, *.wfr, *.wf to my waveform generator, but I have no idea how to generate such files.