Restoration - Talking doll mechanism

This is not a usual "repair".
At an antique mall we found a Italian doll made around the seventies, a "talking" doll !

Flipper Zero - setting up a development environment

Flipper Zero is defined as "hacking" tool, i.e. is a collection of HW and SW that allows to explore and interact with technology around us.

How can we work on it ?

Flipper Zero - introduction

Flipper Zero is defined as "hacking" tool, i.e. is a collection of devices and SW that allows to explore and interact with technology around us.

Pimoroni Badger 2040 - quick intro

To have some fun I did buy a couple of gadgets from Pimoroni, electronic badges with a 2.9 inch eInk display.
There are two flavor of the board, one basic (Badger 2400)  and one with connectivity (WiFi - Badger 2400W).
A nice way to start to play with the Pico series from Raspberry.

Repairs - Moen Chateau valve repair (UPDATE)

In a home there is ALWAYS something to do and fix.

This time is an old bathtub/shower valve that start to be difficult to operate.

Is an old Moen Chateau fixture, with very very very probably a totally worn out cartridge.

This article should be titled "plan for the worse, hope for the best" :)

Cooling the server area 2.0

Years ago .. almost 10 !!! I did set up a cooling system for the server area, basically a under stairs area in garage. 

Is time to try to improve the system.

Repairs - Mazda 5 Aux input

 

This time I spent some resources to fix the AUX input on my Mazda 5 2012.

Repairs - attic fans

Arkansas is very hot place in summer, so basically every roof has one or more fans to help to reduce the accumulation of heat and humidity.

It is very important structure for the health of the house.

Repairs - HP OfficeJet 4630 (UPDATE)

 

Back in the 2014 I did buy the HP Office-jet 4630.

Nice machine and it worked flawlessly until few days ago.

Here how I fixed it.

Huzzah32 - fHelper

Time ago I did work on a fun project to control the soil of a plant in the office, the fHelper project.



However the project had some problems.