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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 [...]

Electronic Workbench with Control Board

If you dont have some idea how to organize your electronic workbench you can get it from here, my friend D-r Avramovski Petar writer for magazine Emiter   has sent to mi  beautiful pictures from his electronics laboratory. So enjoy.. Thank you Petar.

How To Clean The Controls On Your Amplifier

Is that crackling and popping when you turn the controls on your amp driving you crazy?  Here’s how to clean them and get back to the music. There are spray “contact cleaners” available for this purpose, but in most cases just mixes the dirt and grime already inside with more dirt and assembly grease and [...]

Program a PIC microcontroller

This video will you show how to make a JDM2 PIC programmer and to learn  how to burn firmware on a PIC microcontroller in different ways.   Source: Diylife

How to Turn an Old UPS into an Alkaline Battery Charger!

  Source: afrotechmods

Homemade PCB (Etching)

The goal of this tutorial is to teach you how to take a circuit drawn in a fabrication program like Altium or Eagle and make it a real-life PCB. To accomplish this we will need about $20-25 and a few hours of spare time. Source: pyroelectro

Temperature led for Weller WTCPs

An indicator is nice, but how to implement that? Because all the intelligence of the heat regulation happens inside the soldering iron, the station itself is just a big 230->24V-transformer and an on/off-switch. Running an extra wire to the soldering iron to sniff out its status wasn’t an option. There is another way to get [...]