Archive for January, 2007

MSP 430

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

At last I received my MSP430 development kit. The problem is, that Texas Instruments didn't know geography and they didn't discovered new EU countries. So, my parcel moved to Lichtenstein instead to Lithuania. So I invested 34 devalued US dollars and received some small items:

The print on the box says: MSP430 Ultra-Low-Power MCUs eZ430-F2013 […]

Something wireless

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Blog post for information only.
In trash pile I found something strange. It was like spot light and pizza box hybrid. Inside lamp box I found some wireless stuff- some controller, PCMCIA wireless LAN card and PSU. The pizza box was antenna.

Wireless LAN PC Card, Simple mobility NL-2511CD Plus EXT2 (High Power (23dbm) Conexant/Intersil PC […]

Spot Welder

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Sometimes it is great need to weld some metal sheets together. Sometimes they are very small, like nickel plated battery connectors. There are special industrial devices for spot welding, but for DIY and hobbyist user it is very easy to build this welder at home.
All you need is few very big capacitors, thick wire and […]

Relisys RWT205CE terminal

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Just short blog post. The Relisys RWT205CE terminal I received was not working. The problem was classic- fault of the power supply. Just replaced few blown capacitors and everything is working fine. As I replaced with bigger caps, the small heatsink is bent. But it is working fine.
Originally this terminal computer is equipped with Windows […]

Logitech Z-640

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Today we'll open quite big Logitech Z-640 sound system sub-woofer. According the specifications:
• Total output power: 70 Watts RMS
• Subwoofer power output: 25 Watts RMS
• Satellite speaker power output: 45 Watts RMS (9 Watts RMS per channel)
• Total peak power: 140 watts
• System frequency response: 35Hz - 20kHz
• Signal-to-noise ratio: >75 dB
• Input impedance: > […]

Xoro DVD player

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Let’s look inside Xoro DVD/DivX/Xvid player. I received few HSD 310 for disassembling. HSD 310 is lite version of HSD 415- only additional audio and video outputs installed and 5.1 sound support.

There are less components than in Vido DVD player. Power supply is made from less components and with smaller PCB. I didn't […]


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