Archive for August, 2007

Transformer TC-180-2

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I need some transformer for one experiment (I'll post it in near future). So I dig my trash pile and found Soviet transformer with double windings. The idea was to run the transformer with double overload. The transformer I selected was TC-180-2 from old tube tv set (in real, if you find cool Russian device, […]

Skin marasmus

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

I don't like software with skins. Period. But sometimes I am forced to use such software as lame programmers love skins. Typically, the programmers builds some useful software, then he update it and make lots of bug-fixes. Then he didn't know what to add, but he wants to make “new software", so he invents skins…
These […]

Mishap

Friday, August 24th, 2007

My co-worker bought notebook. It was some from Fujitsu Siemens Amilo series. So from cheaper ones. At the same time I've bought similar computer, but more expensive few bucks. So my co-worker was very happy that this time he was smarter and managed to beat my price.
After some time, we decided that 512Mb of RAM […]

Naked LCD

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Sometimes I try to fix LCD monitors and I have some leftover LCD modules from various LCD monitors. I place then in various spaces to prevent screen from scratches. I noticed one LCD module on my windows and I remembered one gad how to convert LCD monitor to video/computer overhead projector. So I disassembled the […]

Thrustmaster LCD

Friday, August 17th, 2007

I have Thrustmaster LCD in my LCD collection for more that one year. The exact model is: XL Screenmate. I was trying to sell it in my online shop, but nobody was interested. Our local electronic hobbyist are not very open minded and still stuck to smaller projects.
After some digging in the internet I found […]

Repairing Philips DVP-3010 and clones

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Somehow I received “several" bad Philips DVP 3010-02 DVD (DivX/Xvid) players. They were sold in local market about year ago for about 100$.
All the devices have same flaw- not reading disk due to the damage of flexible conductor. This is design error. I think Philips must pay me some money for discovering such errors […]

Personal code checker

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Here is software, source code and excel worksheet to check citizens personal identification code used in Lithuania. Checking the code is mandatory when filling various legal documents.
Here is the checker as independent MS Visual Basic program. As I have only old version of the basic, the software is not Unicode compatible. Download ID checker software.
The […]


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