The 9 Best Air Fryers for healthier fries (2024)
Prepare flavorful fried food with little to no oil using this modern kitchen staple. Continue reading The 9 Best Air Fryers for healthier fries (2024)
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Pop Your Way to a Fresh Roast Coffee
The preparation and consumption of coffee has become something of an art from in our community, with many people going to extravagant lengths to achieve the perfect cup. [Eric Sorensen] …read more Continue reading Pop Your Way to a Fresh Roast Coffee
This Spendy Hair Dryer Works Quick With Less Heat
The Zuvi Halo uses infrared to dry your locks, but be prepared to pay. Continue reading This Spendy Hair Dryer Works Quick With Less Heat
Laptop Gets Fixed by Simply Removing Problem Component
We wouldn’t go so far as to say “don’t try this at home”, but the way [Troy] brought an expensive (but out of warranty) laptop back to life is interesting, …read more Continue reading Laptop Gets Fixed by Simply Removing Problem Component
Best Gear and Tips to Keep Your Home Warm in the Winter (2023)
Your home’s draftier than a submarine with a screen door. Be greedy with your warm air and keep it indoors with a little DIY work. Continue reading Best Gear and Tips to Keep Your Home Warm in the Winter (2023)
Robotics Club Teaches Soldering
Oregon State University must be a pretty good place to go to school if you want to hack on robots. Their robotics club, which looks active and impressive, has a multi-part video series on how to solder surface mount components that is worth watching. [Anthony] is the team lead for …read more
Chip Decapping the Easy Way
Chip decapping videos are a staple of the hacking world, and few things compare to the beauty of a silicon die stripped of its protective epoxy and photographed through a good microscope. But the process of actually opening that black resin treasure chest seems elusive, requiring as it does a …read more
BST-863 Hot Air Rework Station Teardown
[Voltlog] has had a 952 hot air rework station for a long time. You’ll recognize it when you see it — they are the ubiquitous soldering iron and hot air gun combination from China sold under numerous brand names. He didn’t think the old station was as good as some …read more
[Leo] Repairs A MIDI Sequencer
We all have that friend who brings us their sad busted electronics. In [Leo’s] case, he had a MIDI sequencer from a musician friend. It had a dead display and the manufacturer advised that a driver IC was probably bad, even sending a replacement surface mount part.
[Leo] wasn’t convinced though. He knew that people were always pushing on the switches that were mounted on the board and he speculated that it might just be a bad solder joint. As you can see in the video below, that didn’t prove out.
The next step was to fire up a hot …read more
Winter Is Coming: Keeping Heat Where It’s Needed
If your workshop has ceilings as high as [Niklas Roy]’s 3.6 meters (11.8 feet), then you’re familiar with his problem. Hot air rises, and there it usually stays until the heat is transferred outdoors. But in the winter time we need that heat indoors and down low. One solution is to install ceiling fans that blow that hot air back down. However, [Niklas] often builds tall things that would collide with those fans. And so he had to hack together some wall hugging fans which will be both high up and out of the way.
For the fans he’s using …read more
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