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My Home Server Build
·1294 words·7 mins
After three years of accumulating parts, I finished a home server for hosting media, git repositories, and backups. In this post I go through the overall hardware & software setup.
Google Home Mini - Input PCBA Reverse Engineering
·726 words·4 mins
A first step into reverse engineering the electronics of the Google Home Mini
Initial calculations for a 3D Printed BGA Socket
·513 words·3 mins
One of the more frustrating things when extracting flash memories is finding so many footprints that don’t have off the shelf sockets. In this post I go through some thoughts and calculations on what it would take to make a 3D printed socket for a BGA part.
My First Gridfinity Drawer (For Batteries)
·860 words·5 mins
Turning a pile of batteries into a neatly organized drawer.
Project Trash Pile - Part 2 - Initial Teardowns (Phones 3,4,9,11, and 12)
·887 words·5 mins
Starting with the most unresponsive devices, it is time to start taking them apart.