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Sega Megadrive/Genesis Cartridge Pinout
I’ve recently been getting into collecting for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis, it’s the one console I had most contact with as a kid. As part of that I’ve been looking at...
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Prop Building - Flashback Holo Cube Build
I decided that I wanted to build a prop for some minor cosplay for Insomnia this year… this is my build log.
Flashback what?
I’m guessing you don’t know...
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WiFi Enabled Legacy Security System
So, over a year ago I blogged about having to hack into my home security system so that I could reconfigure it to work as I wanted to. At the...
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LED Wall Display (Part 2)
Continuing
So, the second LED panel came, really quickly. So I was able to get that together with an old piece...
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LED Wall Display (Part 1)
The Idea
So I was idly browsing AliExpress, not even sure why. When I came...
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Hacking My Security Alarm! (Texecom Veritas R8)
I was going to do this as a video, but in the end I didn’t think it would work so well, so instead have a wall of text!
So I...
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Mostly complete...
The build is nearly complete, a few things left to deal with, I write this nearly two months after the build was effectively complete. The machine is in place and...
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Configuring and thermals!
After the machine was fully built it took a while to get things set up happily. Most of my issues were deciding what the control mechanism for fan speed on...
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It arrived!
After the long wait my Intel i7 4790K has arrived which means I can finally start to build properly. Thanks to all the preparation I’ve done it’s a simple job...
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Ughhh! Wires!
Enough things arrived before the weekend to mean I could spend more time on getting stuff into the case. The most challenging part has been of course cable management, and...
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Motherboard, tragedy and cooling.
So today I’ve had to move my living room around as the carpets being replaced, so I thought I’d get the motherboard in so it’s not in the way any...
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Prepare for separation... 3... 2... 1...
Wow, ColdZero / DHL that’s service, dispatched yesterday at 4PM Lisbon, Portugal, arrived in the North West of England 20 hours later. So the above photo shows the installed mid...
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Braiding
So I got bored, oh and the red braiding arrived, so out came the front panel unit from the 900D and braiding commenced to make the drops to the mother...
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MOAR FANS!
A lot of things arrived, including the AF-120 and AF-140 fans, nuts, washers, some braiding and heat shrink to tidy up some of the wires.
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Things start to arrive...
A fair few bits have arrived, the largest of which is the Corsair Obsidian 900D, by god it’s large and substantial. Thanks to Tom for the above picture, the pack...
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The Plan!
My current desktop is nearly five years old, it was put together in an emergency when my previous system stopped working due to a warped motherboard. At that time the...
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Designing an Economy
I’ve played on many different servers in the past three years, some have kept my focus more than others, one commonality on the those that I enjoyed was an economy....