One man brought small souvenir from China. It is cool 32Gb Sony flash disk. The only problem is that it is fake, and not such size. The device is made quite well. Solid box with all needed information. The device is looking solid too. The size is very big and the price was too small […]
I am using wireless mouse for several years. Recently I collected some same model spare mice for my experiments. It is low frequency (~27MHz, CB band!) mouse with docking station to charge two AAA batteries. All other specifications are typical. The only annoying thing this this mouse are side buttons programmed to act as “back" […]
In local supermarket I bought small car MP3 player. It cost about $25 (79Ltl). It is USB MP3 player with FM modulator. Just plug it to cigarette igniter socket, tune car radio, put your USB flash memory stick and enjoy the music.
I didn't hope to receive good quality sound from such cheap device, […]
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: > […]
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 […]
Typical simple digital camera, so called soapbox, is quite expensive (in our country) device and it is carefully handled by user. And nobody opens the camera body just for fun. All digital cameras are quite complicated electronic devices and more, photo-camera with moving objective lenses is quite complicated mechanically. Also, when opening such device at […]
From big pile of bad computer stuff I selected three cards to destroy. The selection criteria was a bit strange: the add on card were big and heavy, solid design and maybe expensive.
So, here we have:
Radeon 9800 PRO 128Mb with passive cooling: heat-pipe and double large heat-sink.
Winfast PX6800GT with heatpipe, cooler and double huge heatsinks.
Siluro […]
Today I decided to break apart few video cards. There was box of old nVIDIA and ATI video cards. With various connectors and RAM sizes. Here is the collage from GPU images:
To prove that it is broken apart cards, here it is the small photo of GPUs cut off the cards:
As I remmember the […]
I didn't wanted to broke it. Really… I wanted only to bend it and adapt it for heat transportation from video card to computer case body. The heat pipe was manufactured with 180 degrees fold and I wanted to make it 90… The pipe popped and I heard some sucking noise. So, be careful with […]
From time to time I smash various hitech stuff. Just for fun and to look inside. So I decided to make special category for it.
The victim of this blog entry is three compact flash size micro drive disks. Each is 2 gigs size.
I removed all stickers and metal shields and now you can see the […]
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