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Hardware & Electronics Archive
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Stop your Citroen C3′s radio from beeping at you
Posted on February 24, 2012 | 1 CommentTweetHas this ever happened to you? You’re driving around listening to the radio, switch the car off to go and do something (fill up with petrol in my case) and... -
Inside a Motorola 8500X brick phone
Posted on February 7, 2012 | No CommentsTweetEveryone likes looking at the innards of electronic devices. Modern ones are a bit boring now unless you’ve got a microscope, but there’s plenty of interest in old tech… especially... -
The insides of an iPod 1.8″ HDD and a 2.5GB Seagate Microdrive
Posted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsTweetHard drives are pretty fascinating things, full of complex and precisely machined pieces of metal that spin at high speeds. And they’re strangely reliable too, considering what’s in them. Well,... -
Fake Hello Kitty iPod Shuffle from eBay for £0.01
Posted on January 18, 2012 | No CommentsTweetAmy just received this amusing piece of Chinese electronic tat from eBay. It’s a Hello Kitty branded MP3 player that bears a striking resemblance to a popular brand of portable... -
A BBC Micro with an MMC Card… and some bad components
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsTweetAfter the success of repairing my BBC Micro’s PSU I decided the act of shoving 30 year old floppies into an equally old drive, while amusing and all was a...