Tag Archives: electronics

3-cent earbud hack

Occasionally in life, a 3-cent, 33 ohm resistor is the solution to your problem. The problem, in this particular case, was that I wanted to use an old mobile phone headset as a lavalier microphone for doing some audio recording … Continue reading

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When in doubt, get the LED out

Some people play golf. Other people love board games. Reverse engineering old electronics is my jam. I love it. It’s like a little puzzle and it completely absorbs me. I’m utterly free of function-guilt in these pursuits: I do it … Continue reading

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Waterloo Tape Music Club: contact!

Regular readers know about the nascent (and I rarely use that word) Waterloo Tape Music Club. They know because they read my earlier post on WTMC meetup #1 back in January. An engineer, a composer and a DJ wanted make … Continue reading

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DIY community: electronic music with WTMC

To state the obvious: you can build the community in which you want to live. A week ago, I got together with some electronic music makers as they (well, we) put that into practice. My good friend and modest polymath, … Continue reading

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Fixed: Sony HVL-F1000 camera flash

My buddy Storz asked if I could help him out with a soldering job. His 10 year old Sony DSC-F828 camera has an external flash with a 2.5mm 4-position plug. Here’s the fixed HVL-F1000 flash with a replacement plug from … Continue reading

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Fixed: surface mount microsurgery on DSi game console

My buddy, C, had a problem with his Nintendo DSi handheld game console: the shoulder buttons, after many many thousands of cycles, had failed.  C is a big-time Flipnote animator on the DSi and without the index-finger-action of the shoulder … Continue reading

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