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Project updates!

It’s been a while since I last posted, but I have been keeping busy! I have updates on a number of previous projects as well as announcing a few new projects. I also have started using GitHub to start uploading projects so that others can see/ use them.

SNES Repro Carts

This project went on hiatus for a bit. During early days of COVID I was working pretty feverishly on this, and I got the board schematic captured and a layout done, and made a few boards. I also wrote the supporting documents for this blog, which left off when we make the boards. For some reason, after I got the boards, I couldn’t get them to work. I got busy with work and some other things so this fell to the wayside and I stopped seriously working on projects in the same way for a bit. I decided to revisit- and made a few new tools along the way.

Still alive!

I made it a new year’s resolution to write on the blog more. Clearly, that hasn’t happened, but not without any success. I’m off to a good start on picking up and working on a few projects, and there are 4 drafts floating around here for future posts. So, the content should be a bit more consistent or at least existing in the near future. There are a few projects from 2020 that got left to rot in the drafts, and there are a few that I’ve already done in this year, so I just have to start somewhere when posting. Here are a few things kicking around that I’m hoping to make posts on:

Samsung Syncmaster 305t rework and cooling mod

When I lived in Pittsburgh, I got this huge 30″ Samsung monitor from Goodwill for a couple of bucks. It turned on and with no display connector attached, it runs through a color check. So, since the panel worked, I figured everything was fine and took it home.

I’m back!

I just accepted a job with Asylum Research. It’s a company based in Santa Barbara, CA that makes some of the best AFM/SPM instrumentation on the planet. There are a lot of talented and nice people there that I’ve met in the past few weeks. The move from Pittsburgh has been long and hard, but I’m finally starting to get settled back into things and starting to dig back into projects that I was working on before the whole move. I brought 3 projects from Pittsburgh to tide me over while I search for places to get new projects. (Goodwill out here sucks)

Samsung SyncMaster 305T BGA separation issue
Pioneer SA-9100 receiver protection circuit tripped
Pioneer CT-F1000 clutch slip, not sure if there are any electrical issues yet