Been repairing quite a bit of discarded equipment recently – it’s yielded some good finds. Pulled a broken Leica GZ6 outta the trash- with cracked plastic gears (apparently like every other GZ6). It was super easy to disassemble and remove the gears – which I tried to super glue back together and use. The glue […]
An interesting piece of gear passed across my desk, a Viasala RS80 Radiosonde. The RS80 radiosondes is a small electronic payload which is typically lofted into the upper atmosphere by a helium filled balloon. During its journey, it relays to the ground (or records) environmental information, such as barometric pressure, temperature, and humidity. Its location […]
I was poking around inside a D-Link DES-1228P fast ethernet managed power over ethernet (POE) switch. I’m looking into building a few pieces of equipment that are POE and curious how the “big boys” do it. Opening the device reveals a large main board with several large Marvell ASICs. The large TQFP in the upper […]