I'm learning about electronics bit by bit, making projects and tearing things apart
Posted in Teardowns on Apr 2nd, 2011
I thought I’d take a little break and tear something apart, this time it’s the Super Gameboy SNES Adapter which allows you to play Gameboy games on the SNES.
Lets flip it over to see some chips.
Posted in Teardowns on Dec 30th, 2010
Most of all Queenslanders would know that there has been a scheme to install a Wireless Energy Monitor for quite some time so lets take a look inside. This energy monitor lets you check your current power usage, greenhouse gases produced and cost with these values been shown for the current day, past day, week, quarter and year.
Part No CM119
Two screws later and we’re in.
Posted in Teardowns on Dec 17th, 2010
Here we have the Logitech LX310 ready for us to look into comprised of three parts, the receiver, keyboard and mouse.
Lets begin with the wireless receiver.
P/N 810-000594
P/D LZ824AD
Posted in Teardowns on Dec 11th, 2010
Today we’ll be tearing down the CardScan Executive; a device that scans business cards and uploads them to your computer.
One screw later, it’s uncovered. We can see from left to right, the cable that I assume connects to the image scanner, then the 2 wire cable which connects to what looks like an IR receiver or sender for detecting when business cards are inserted and then the connection for the stepper motor.
Posted in Teardowns on Nov 20th, 2010
I originally thought would be a quick teardown but I was wrong, there was a surprise (for me at least) to see an Nvidia chip in this print server as I never knew they made chips other than for video cards and motherboards chipsets.
Posted in Teardowns on Oct 23rd, 2010
Here’s the Netgear DM602 ADSL Modem tear down, at 8 years old so it’s interesting to see how different the PCB looks from the modern router.
First impressions of the board, it’s filled with components everywhere!
Posted in Teardowns on Oct 22nd, 2010
Another teardown, this time the Billion 5100 ADSL Router which is a few years old now, it’s just an “ADSL” router, none of that ADSL2 here.
Posted in Teardowns on Oct 2nd, 2010
It’s been a little while since doing one of these but we have the Motorola Surfboard 5100 Cable Modem which we’ll take apart and it’s fairly old which was built on the 23-Dec-04 according to the PCB, so lets get right to it. Part number seems to be 513682-003-00 and the PCB says 512841-003 Rev A.
Posted in Teardowns on Sep 23rd, 2010
I have with me a Ultra Slim Computer’s power supply which someone claims it made a loud sound and no longer works so I thought I’d rip it apart as I was always curious how it compares to standard computer power supplies that “normal” computers have. This power supply (part number 397747-001 & spare part number 397803-001) is from a HP DC7800 Ultra Slim PC (GV709PA). It’s rated at 135W with 19V @ 7.1A output.
(high resolution picture so you can see all the text)
Posted in Teardowns on Jul 24th, 2010
Whilst I’m waiting for some parts to produce the PCB of the simple motor controller I’ve been working we’ve got a quick teardown, it’s the Belkin F5U246 SM/XD Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Media Reader & Writer which just reads SM and XD cards. As you would expect there’s not much to see here just the one main chip.
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AdvanceVGA – Play your GBA on the big screen! Swap out the LCD for our board, solder some wires, connect 5V USB and VGA and you’re ready to go. |
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GBxCart RW allows you to backup GB/GBC/GBA ROMs, save or restore game saves and re-write supported flash carts. Mini RW option available for GB/GBC only. |
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Gameboy flash carts: 32KB Flash Cart 32KB 4KB FRAM Flash Cart 1MB 128KB SRAM Flash Cart 4MB 128KB SRAM Flash Cart 4MB 128KB FRAM Flash Cart |
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GBA carts: 32MB, 1Mbit Flash Save (for Pokemon games/hacks) 32MB, 512Kbit Flash 32MB, 4K/64Kbit EEPROM 32MB, 256Kbit FRAM |
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Wireless Gameboy Controller – Use your Gameboy, mGB, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, GB Micro, NDS and NDS Lite as a wireless controller on Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, etc, and on your NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube and Wii. |