you are here because you want to know more about me and my interests. Or maybe one of my interests offered you something, such as a fix, a tweak, or an inspiration. who knows, but it would be nice if you contact me and let me know why you are here. this is a simple old school page, I’m not interested in tracking you, or trying to sell you something (I’m sure i will elaborate more at some time), but its just a fun page for me to post silly stuff, show some thing I’ve learned, and maybe give you some inspiration.
I have been interested in electronics since the very early 80’s and was known for taking things apart (tinkering), but i wasn’t known for putting them back together very well. going full steam into electronics intimidated me, and at times frustrated me because many places of information either treat you like you don’t know what a resistor is, or assume you are able to make nano-meter thin IC’s. my goal is to find that middle ground. and i hope to show others some things, and i expect to also be given pointers i can share, and learn from. in short, i will not pretend to know it all, and will possibly post things that will make some say “really, you didn’t know that?”.
My future hopes once i get this page setup is to post some of my older projects, and music ventures (Migamix) is my DJ name and music project name. who knows this site may become a “band” page, if i get famous making music… stop laughing.
hopefully, if i find this page is providing help to others, it will evolve. for now i will follow the “KISS” method (Keep It Simple Stupid)
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Raspberry Pi cooler
A fan design for the raspberry Pi (up to RPi 3B). it uses a very common 40x10mm fan with angle duct (I think its the same one used by Creality to cool the ender3 series). I also made another version that really cools anything above the RPi3, including the RPi4, it uses a 5015s blower……
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Because we all do it (safety for tools)
ADAfruit makes some amazing little devices. One of them is the Circuit Playground. I had this issue where I would do several projects at once, some involving the soldering iron, so i flip it on, do the job, and that’s it. notice what was left out of that sentence? yeah, sometimes i forget to turn……
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my Amiga 1200 pt.3 (its back)
well, the fix was easy, finding the time to get measurements was not, but the repair took 3 min to do, after days of looking over pictures i took and schematics, along with this lovely online resource of a full traceable board-view. and some info from this page *of a A4000 audio repair guide. The……
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my Amiga 1200 pt.2
so, i will make this short . i “re-capped” my amiga 1200 (replace all electrolytic capacitors, not SM ceramic type). i am glad i did it since some of the caps were already leaking, and did do pad damage to the board. ( C821 was the worst one of them and had to rebuild a……
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Its a Fake
Its not easy or even possible to find good quality or REAL IC chips on seller sites like Amazon, Ebay, or Alibaba. if you want the real thing, you will have to go to sites like Digikey, Mouser. as they are the official distributors of Several chip manufacturers and will most likely not have a……
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Full of hot air
my quick assessment of a “cheap” Yaugong hot air/rework station i received recently.Looking all over the interwebs, you will find many “older” vids about the very common858D hot air station I’m not going to discount those vids, maybe i got lucky and went with a different brand that appears to have some safety updates and……
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Things are changing
