Archive for the ‘Hardware Development’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/23
[Wayback/Archive] How TINY Can I go? The BEST Power Board is here! – YouTube – GreatScott!
I will try to remake an AliExpress PCB. It is a very handy voltage converter that can take a varying battery voltage and convert it into 3.3V or 5V while only requiring very little current (25uA) on the input. Sounds awesome, but the board is way too huge. That is why I try to push the size limits in this video to the minimum.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Making a Tiny PCB Design #electronics #diy #greatscott #science #engineering #pcb #tiny – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted in Development, Electronics Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Power User, USB, USB-C | Tagged: DIY, electronics, engineering, greatscott, pcb, science, tiny | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/16
From a few years back when Lightning debugging cables were either expensive, hard or not to get at all: [Wayback/Archive] DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube.
Basically it is a Raspberry Pi Zero with adapted firmware connected to half a lightning extension cable.
A textual description (I wish it was linked from the above video) is at [Wayback/Archive] stacksmashing – The hitchhacker’s guide to iPhone Lightning & JTAG hacking – DEF CON Forums, which in turn refers to:
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Posted in Development, Hardware Development, iOS, iPhone, Power User, Red team, Security | Tagged: checkm8 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/08
Posted in Apple, Classic Macintosh, Development, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Macintosh SE/30, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Pico, Retrocomputing, RP2040, SCSI, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/20
Cool: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @mariusheier on Thread Reader App – USB-A to USB-C. A @cursedconnector ? Or genius?
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I think it is genius, as it is way shorter than what I found on sites like Amazon, ebay, Aliexpress and others.
For now I am using ones from Amazon that are a tad bit too long (thereby putting too much stress on the USB C output of my laptop), but they are charging only (no video capability): [Wayback/Archive] USB C Female to USB Male Adapter Pack of 3, Type A Power Supply Charger Cable Adapter for iPhone 11 12 13 Pro Max, SE, iPad Mini 6 Air 4 5, Apple Watch iWatch 7, Samsung Galaxy S20 S21 S22 Plus Ultra FE: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories (image below)
The one Marius posted about is also charging only, but shorter: [Wayback/Archive] 1-10PCS Type-C 3.1 Female to Double-sided USB Am Male Connector 2.0 Charging Version Adapter with PCB Board Inside – AliExpress
Compare with the picture of the Amazon one:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/19
Cool thread: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @dosdude1 on Thread Reader App – upgrading storage from 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro (images at the bottom of this blog post: they are large):
Just finished my most difficult Apple Silicon storage upgrade yet… 512GB to 8TB on an M3 Max MacBook Pro! This was especially difficult, as it required installing around 100 extra tiny components to use the second set of 4 NANDs…
Because I didn’t have schematics for this model, I had to painstakingly hand draw this diagram to locate the correct position of each component, which I derived based on a schematic for a similar model. Definitely took a long time!
If I need to have a Silicon Mac upgraded, this is one of the people to keep an eye on and when needed visit [Wayback/Archive] Technical Support – DosLab Electronics.
Dosdude1 has been active in this field of work for quite some time. A nice article on earlier work is [Wayback/Archive] Collin Mistr’s Open-Hardware 2.5″ IDE SSD Aims to Bring Speedy Solid-State Storage to Vintage PCs – Hackster.io.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30
Retro computing is wildly popular, and with the rise of low cost single-board computers (SBCs for short), both Apple //e and ][+ emulators plus extension cards have proliferated, based on Raspberry Pi (or even their RP2040 microcontroller based Pico), ESP32 or predecessor ESP8266 microcontrollers and others.
Some links for my archive:
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Posted in //e, Apple, Development, Emulators, ESP32, ESP8266, Hardware Development, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Pico, Retrocomputing, Software Development | Tagged: 3dprinting, Apple, appleii, retro | Leave a Comment »
When at look at a local Amazon site, they have plenty of stuff: [Wayback/Archive] Amazon.de : 10 inch rack
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 