With the annoyance that is Windows 11 I have finally started to migrate my PC to Linux, I decided on base Debian dual booted with Windows 11. The dual boot I really wanted to get the theme of dual boot splash screen the correct resolution with rEFInd but my...
Time for a new variation of the dual XP and Windows 10 workshop PC. Hardware This time I have gone for mATX in a Fractal Design Mini C, a Asus Z77M-Pro, i7 3770k, 16GB DRR3 1600mhz, GTX 980ti. To move over all my harddrives I had to 3D print a top 120mm fan mounted...
So I finally got sick of 3.5" Floppy drives and modifying the aliexpress gotek clones so i built some of OpenFlops clones that have the OLED screen and rotary encoder in the them and swapped all my machines over. Putting them together The project is located here on...
A while back I was given an old Android tablet, a Sasmsung Tab 2 10.1 specifically and I had no use for it as the OS was far too old. That was until I had to get a PCIe Diagnostics Card working with an android device and didn't want to buy one. So in comes custom...
I have always wanted to build a very high end Batocera emulation rig that can run everything from an Atari 2600/C64 all the way to up a Playstation 3. This is what I came up with. Case and main parts The whole build is based around the NR200P, a nice SFF ITX case that...
I discovered a big C64 Collection with all sorts of projects in it, can be found here. I couldn't help myself but to build another SD2IEC. Build The SD2IEC LP is a much nicer build than my other one as it plugs into the tape port for the power and has a pig tail for...
My obsession with Thinkpads started with a run to the Tip Shop and spotting a pair of laptop old Thinkpads, and it only snow balled from there. Starting off with a R50 and R51 The pair were an R50 and R51e, with the later having a broken screen. My hope was that I...
After realising that the Core 2 Quad Xeon rig I built a few years earlier was totally bottlenecking the GTX Titan in my Dual Booted Windows XP / Windows 10 Gaming Rig / workshop PC I started doing some digging and found out that one of the last platforms to support...
It was a pain to solder surface mount parts on small boards and the hot air gun is annoying to use for really small parts and the reball machine was too big, enter the Solder Reflow Plate a Atmega 328p based reflow solution. Reflow Plate PCBs The project files can be...
Down the SCSI rabbit hole I went when the drives in my Macintosh SE/30 and Macintosh Color Classic both died. I did a big order of V1 and V2 PCB's on different occasions in the hope of making a bunch for my friends and community members which also covers some of my...