Projects

Past projects that may be interesting... or not.

Corner Bunk Bed

Please Note: Clicking on an image will take you to a higher resolution version of the image you clicked on. 2024-09-02: My wife and I have been working on trying...

Dual-Lite DL-7-12V Reverse Engineering

Please Note: Clicking on an image will take you to a higher resolution version of the image you clicked on. 2024-08-24: I'm going to be a little light on details...

Ubiquiti GP-A240-050G

Please Note: Clicking on an image will take you to a higher resolution version of the image you clicked on. 2024-07-15: I recently installed a new security camera and needed...

Kiwi Disk Launcher Crate 3d Printed Upgrades

Please Note: Clicking on an image will take you to a higher resolution version of the image you clicked on. 2024-05-04: My wife and I bought our children a Kiwi...

Farewell. A Viewsonic VP2468 Monitor Teardown.

Please Note: Clicking on an image will take you to a higher resolution version of the image you clicked on. Perfect for viewing on a high resolution color-calibrated monitor like...

HP Elitedesk 805 G8 Ryzen Locked BIOS

2023-11-18: This story starts on eBay with the need for a new small computer...and ends with an auction listing I won for $300 on a used HP Elitedesk 805 G8...

Phase Perfect PTE 480PTINV_V2.0 IGBT Circuit Board

Phase Perfect PTE 480PTINV_V2.0 IGBT Circuit Board

2023-11-13: Strangely, I haven't seen many phase converters recently and had two of them thrown at me in the last 2 weeks. I decided I should probably try to figure...

Prototrak KMX Dead Battery

Prototrak KMX Dead Battery

2023-07-13: If, in the course of owning a Protrak Knee Mill with the KMX control, you should run into a weird problem where the WDT_fault light is doing a fast...

Random ROMs

2023-06-09: I purchased quite a few 27C256 ROMs over the last while to fix some computer boards. Some came erased. Some didn't. These are the ones that didn't come erased......

Mitsubishi QX141 CNC / Mazak T+ Lathe Control Exploration

Mitsubishi QX141 CNC / Mazak T+ Lathe Control Exploration

2023-03-08: I had an opportunity to troubleshoot a Mazak SQT18M Mark II with the Mazatrol T PLUS Control / Mitsubishi Numerical Control System M535LHY a while back... Just stumbled on...