Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Bad Hard Drive – Parts needed
The pictured hard drive failed and left its owner in bad shape. If anyone has an old disk sitting around that’s the same make and model, it might help up in data recovery.
IBM Deskstar DTLA-307045
The missing text in the overexposed area says “Deskstar.”
If you have one of these, please let me know. We [...]
Cure for Capacitors
My brother Jordan (A.K.A. jordy) and I have salvaged a motherboard or two with bad caps on it. It can be a sweet way to get a cheap desktop system (do *not* try this with your server). It doesn’t seem like MBs are plagued by bad CAPS like they were 4-5 years ago, [...]
Bumps ahead
The humble server that I use to host a few (11) web sites is getting updated. It’s not going to be that big of a deal (99% idle instead of 97% idle).
The big deal will be the addition of Xen, LVM and RAID. I’m thinking about setting up a small domU that will [...]
The Open Source Motor Control (OSMC) project
The Open Source Motor Control (OSMC) project seems like just the fit for me. Cheap, Open hardware for hacking together a X,Y table and doing a little laser cutting :)