Junk I Bought: My PSU Just Won’t Do
I have an Acer monitor that I’ve owned for around 15 years, and thanks to my having paid extra at the time for the model sporting a DVI socket for …read more Continue reading Junk I Bought: My PSU Just Won’t Do
Category Archives: Fail of the Week
Fail of the Week: A Bigger Hacksaw Isn’t a Better Hacksaw
If we’re being honest, the main reason to buy a power tool is to avoid the pain of using one’s muscles. Oh sure, we dress it up with claims that …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: A Bigger Hacksaw Isn’t a Better Hacksaw
Fail of the Week: Hackaday Writer Attempts XBox Repair
Like a lot of Hackaday readers, I pride myself on being “the fix-it guy” in my family. When something breaks, I get excited, because it’s a chance to show off …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Hackaday Writer Attempts XBox Repair
Fail of the Week: Flipped Cable Leads to Fried Radio
[Doug]’s newly-installed Yaesu FT-891 mobile transceiver failed to power up despite a careful installation, and it turns out to have ultimately been caused by a reversed cable. There’s a happy …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Flipped Cable Leads to Fried Radio
Fail of the Week: The Metal Hot End Upgrade
My son, Patrick, has observed on more than one occasion that I do not like 3D printing. That may sound odd, because I built a printer back in 2012 and …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: The Metal Hot End Upgrade
Fail Of The Week: Mistaking Units for Values
Usually when we post a Fail Of The Week, it’s a heroic tale of a project made with the best of intentions that somehow failed to hit its mark. The …read more Continue reading Fail Of The Week: Mistaking Units for Values
LED Brightness Adjustment Uses Itself as Sensor
This is a story about a successful system that nevertheless failed to make the cut. An experimental LED brightness adjustment is something [Mitxela] explored in a project for a high-precision …read more Continue reading LED Brightness Adjustment Uses Itself as Sensor
Fail of the Week: Roboracer Meets Wall
There comes a moment when our project sees the light of day, publicly presented to people who are curious to see the results of all our hard work, only for it to fail in a spectacularly embarrassing way. This is the dreaded “Demo Curse” and it recently befell the SIT …read more
Fail Of The Week: Putting Guitar Strings On A Piano
The piano is a bit of an oddball within the string instrument family. Apart from rarely seeing people carry one around on the bus or use its case to discretely conceal a Tommy Gun, the way the strings are engaged in the first place — by having little hammers attached …read more
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Fail Of The Week: This SD Card Won’t Slot
If you’ve got a few self-designed PCBs under your belt, you probably know the pain of missing some little detail and having to break out the bodge wires to fix it. So we feel for [Arsenio Dev], who placed an SD card slot next to an SoC, only to find …read more