A UL 60w light holder fail.
by Moogle on May.11, 2013, under Electronics
A simple light bulb change lead to disaster this morning.
Decapsulated chips
by Moogle on May.09, 2013, under Electronics
Warning! Nitric Acid is nasty stuff to play around with. I did this so you don’t have to! Do not attempt to do this yourself or you may end up dead!
So today I wanted to try and decapsulate some chips to see how they were laid out inside.
This was my first attempt. A Leapfrog L1000 arm chip.
Not sure if I etched everything off or this is some sort of copper obfuscation layer.
The other side looks like the standard back of a chip.
Next I attempted one of those custom glued down chips from a older leapfrog toy.
results were much better.
This is one really nice chip to look at :)
Some sort of die marking of who really made the chip. I couldn’t get a clear image of it.
This is at 500x zoom on my microscop
Next up I did a old DEC scsi chip
lastly a simple 8 pin eprom chip
It works!
by Moogle on May.07, 2013, under Electronics
I got the power wired up to day. Everything is good!
Bitcoin Mining on a laptop?
by Moogle on May.03, 2013, under Electronics
Yes you read that right. I am mining bitcoins on my laptop :)
Today Is a good day
by Moogle on Apr.23, 2013, under Electronics, Life
I am in a really awesome Good Mood!
Hey whats that burning smell…. thats not good… A Moogle PSA
by Moogle on Apr.20, 2013, under Electronics
So the other day the plugs in the bathrooms of my house were becoming intermittent with random tripping of the GFI breakers for no reason.
400v Boom :)
by Moogle on Apr.13, 2013, under Electronics
When moogle is bored bad things can happen :D
Lyman extrude and my Prusa
by Moogle on Apr.07, 2013, under 3d printing, Reprap Prusa
Been building a Lyman extrude to extrude my own filament.
Tivax STB-T9 Uart and fan mod
by Moogle on Apr.02, 2013, under Electronics, Tivax STB-T9
Having too much fun with the Tivax STB-T9. Feeling lazy but will add more details later here is what I’ve done so far.
Tivax STB-T9 error report log
by Moogle on Mar.31, 2013, under Tivax STB-T9
Found a command that generates a total dump of the system config and compiled settings
simply type pr