Thursday, April 23, 2020

Fixing his toy chainsaw

 He left his toy chainsaw outside and it stopped working, so I took it apart, and re-soldered a corroded terminal. 



(Not making a separate post, but had to fix a second time by de-soldering an smd button, and soldering a new smd button of similar size [had to melt a bit to get to fix with the soldering iron])

Hacking a 3ds to add parental controls

  The 3ds is an amazing piece of hardware. Especially if you hack it to add homebrew/emulators. My son has been enjoying a bit of "free...