Category Archives: Electronics

Tinkering with small electrical things.

Fixing the dryer! Adventures of an amateur technician.

Posted on 2021-02-07, Sunday by jaap

A few weeks ago, the motor of my laundry dryer started stuttering, sometimes making a humming noise, sometimes stopping all together. I’ve only had this/a dryer for a couple of years –it was my mother’s before–, so I thought: all … Continue reading →

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Sparkfun 9DOF on Raspberry Pi 2

Posted on 2015-08-24, Monday by jaap

A couple of months ago, I finally set out to get the Sparkfun 9DOF stick working (3D acceleration sensor, gyroscope and magnetic flux sensor/compass: 3 x 3 = 9). I got it from my father for my birthday a couple … Continue reading →

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Mining FTW

Posted on 2015-08-03, Monday by jaap

Not actually for the win… there’s not much to be gained. However I find it fascinating that people are actually building dedicated chips (ASICs) to mine crypto currencies (BitCoin etc.). So after mining litecoin on my AMD Radeon HD7950 GPU … Continue reading →

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