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Battery Adapter for Canon Powershot SX200

Alexander wrote: Last year I bought a Canon PowerShot SX200 on ebay. I wanted to play a bit with CHDK, the Canon Hack Development Kit to make some timelapse things. Problem was, the battery would hold only up for 2 hours or so. Even worse, the camera has no power jack to attach a power [...]

SPI Flash Programmer v2 in action

Circuitish found one flash memory PM25LV512 of the graphic card from pc , and then they  put it to programmer to see how it looks in action. The PM25LV512 is a Serial Flash Memory With 25 MHZ Spi Bus Interface and these devices are designed to use a single low voltage, range from 2.7V  to [...]

Make your Folder For Resistors

Did you wish that your resistors are sorted by the values of resistors, it is easy to find the resistor value will want, so I found a good link for How to Make DIY Resistor Folder.  

Get your PCBs made by Seeed Studio

Here’s a good tutorial that was written by Luca, and that  shows step by step guide to Seeed Studio’s Fusion PCB service. So I’m sure plenty of people will be interested in this service. Why exactly Seeed Studio? Well because you PCB board will look great and professional. Seeed Studio offers a very cheap prices, [...]

How to create a realistic PCB with Photoshop

When designing PCBs that will be produced professionally (or even if you etch yourself) it is sometimes hard to get a good view of what they will look like. Most CAD programs view the design in a way that is useful during design but that is not what they will look like in the end. [...]

A homemade digital video inspection!

Did you ever think that your own electronic lab can be turned into the most comfortable working place you can have. Instead of torturing yourself with magnifying glass and light effects , you can use this idea and safely zoom in the smallest electronic parts you have.This so called “ invention “ can be named [...]

Replacing Screen on Acer TravelMate 5320

My friend Tome from Laptopish.com explained the procedure for replacing the screen on Acer TravelMate 5320 . You can see here step by step all procedure replacing damaged screen.    

Parts organization in workshop

Since we have many parts and many drawers a bit more difficult to find the part, the parts were all over the place so I had no more nerve to look for one parts  full day , and today I decided to fix it a little bit and to organize drawers.  Here are some pictures [...]

$33 LCD Controller Board and Re-using an LCD screen

If you have an old laptop which has stop working,and if lcd display on the laptop is in good condition for $33 you can make to turn this laptop to be an good lcd monitor . How? One eBay seller have the cheapest universal plate for LCD monitors the prize is only 33 USD, anyway [...]

Never dispose of faulty energy-saving bulbs

Several years after they appeared on the market, set as lights in my home.I noticed that quite often it burns faster electronics, lamps than themselves.I made a few holes on the body, for better cooling.Lamps with additional cooling, had more life. Then I started to combine.Correctly electronics from lamp which blighted associate with lamp where [...]

How to Reverse Engineer a Schematic from a Circuit Board

This project is a result of needing to service a domestic electronic item without being able to obtain a circuit diagram. The process proved to be very long and painstaking, but also very rewarding.  The steps presented here are not exact, and you will no doubt find your own way of working which is more [...]