How to Recap and repair your SEGA Game Gear
Have a poorly SEGA Game Gear that refuses to play ball (or Shinobi)? Chances are it has some leaky fishy old capacitors that need to be whipped out! There are a fair few of them, but really they are not too much trouble as I discovered ....
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Teardown Lab - Toshiba Laptop Death by knife
I have had enough of this old hardware guilting me into keeping it around!
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Covert Device Spy Camera Detector
Staying in an Air BnB and worried that someone is going to be watching you binge munch your way through a massive bag of nacho chips and publish the video on 4chan? Well this could be the gadget for you!!
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Teardown Lab - Mystery Surface Mount Practice Kits
Are you ready to take the transition to surface mount? Of course your are and these will help!
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Teardown Lab - USB C Mail
Welcome to the fascinating world of USB C! Huzzah!!
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Everdrive ED64 Nintendo 64 Teardown + Cheap Homebrew Dev Modification howto
I wanted to test my Japanese N64 but did not have any compatible games, fortunately this gadget not only solves that, but allows simpler home-brew as well with a small modification, hurrah!
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RetroTime! Spectrum Edition!
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Sony MSX Hitbit HB-75 Repair Attempt
Just like waiting for a bus, nothing for ages then two Hitbits at once!
A lovely machine, I am looking forward to really playing with it properly soon (as opposed to 3am with jetlag)
Please see my revised capacitor fix as it was pointed out to me in the comments that I put a resistor where a cap should be:
https://backofficeshow.com/blog/2018/3/25/sony-msx-hitbit-capacitor-replacement
I guess I never saw a colourband capacitor before :)
As I have a pair I may be parting with the second for a Amstrad CPC or similar ?
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TDL- BBC Master Battery Refurb and Keyboard Repair How to
Got a forgetful BBC Master computer? Then chances are its battery is sad and crying tears of acid over everything! time to whip it out and sort it!
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