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Garage door opener life extension
This little thing is really annoying. It’s the remote control for our electric garage door, and I use it several times a day to get my bike in and out. Luxury, pure luxury. Or it would be, if it worked...
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Canon S100 Shutter Button Fix
This is my Canon S100 digital camera. After long, somewhat arduous service, the shutter button started playing up: it would focus but not take the photo. Eventually I got a mobile phone with a better...
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The Euroquadruped, or the solution to wall wart Tetris
Having relocated from the UK to Poland, the change in mains plugs has never quite been resolved. All the equipment that came from the UK has 13A plugs on it, and all the local sockets are the CEE 7/5...
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RIAA phono preamp for Tascam M-1B Line Mixer
In the workshop I have a couple of these Tascam M-1B line mixers. They’re a very useful box: they have eight inputs, each with a level control and pan pot, which are mixed together and fed into a...
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Hacking child barriers
This post contains no electronics or software, just woodwork. Our house is full of traps for the inquisitive toddler. There’s cat food and litter, an office full of sharp tools, a fireplace, and most...
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Good accuracy from a low cost Real Time Clock
One product I work on has a built-in data logger. This helps us a lot if a problem occurs: we can see the history of any faults. Every log entry is time stamped, which is important. We need to know...
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Quick-and-dirty partition resize with Acronis True Image
A little embedded Linux magic comes in unexpectedly handy. Years ago, I started using Acronis True Image to back up my office PC. Other backup packages are available, as they say, but it’s worked well...
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Fixing printing from Quicken 2002 under Windows 10
It’s admission time. I still run the financial side of my business on Quicken 2002 and yes, it really is 16 years old. It does what I need and is reliable. Over the years I’ve developed various handy...
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Sony WM-D6C Walkman Pro DC-DC converter repair
This story starts with the long drive from Cambridge, UK to Warsaw, Poland. I like to be able to listen to music to while away the hours in the car, and I decided to use cassettes. Why? Our car radio...
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Windows 10 Boot Problems: error 0xc000000e
Monday morning. Arrive at the office with lots to do. Switch on the computer, and… That’s not what I wanted to see. There’s lots of advice out there on the web about fixing this problem, but it turned...
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