Repair And Reverse-Engineering Of Nespresso Vertuo Next Coffee Machines

Akin to the razor-and-blades model, capsule-based coffee machines are an endless grind of overpriced pods and cheaply made machines that you’re supposed to throw out and buy a new one of, jus…

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The Shelly 2.5 Smart Relay Design Flaw Killing Capacitors

Part of any self-respecting Smart Home, smart relays are useful for switching and monitoring loads that do not plug into an outlet. This also makes them a lot more integrated, and thus, a long life…

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A New Life For An Old Amplifier

An audio amplifier was once a fairly simple analogue device, but in recent decades a typical home entertainment amplifier will have expanded to include many digital functions. When these break they…

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Fixing A KS Jive DAB Radio With A Dash Of Fake ICs

The exciting part about repairing consumer electronics is that you are never quite sure what you are going to find. In a recent video by [Mick] of Buy it Fix it on YouTube the subject is a KS Jive …

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Repairing Brittle Plastic Retro Computer Cases

As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic doesn’t just turn increasing shades of yellow and brown, the ABS plastic also tends to get brittle. This is a problem …

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DIY Grid Dip Meter Teardown

You don’t see them much anymore, but there was a time when any hobbyist who dealt with RF probably had a grid dip meter. The idea was to have an oscillator and measure the grid current as it …

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Repairing A Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator

There’s a lot of laboratory equipment out there that the casual hobbyist will never need to use, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t snap it up if the price is right. That’s …

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taking some time to take care of the robutts today. the workhorse roomba has long since ate up his sidebrush and wheeltreads. has anyone tried tpu printed replacement treads?
is there a roomba enthusiast hashtag? if there was going to be one itd be on here
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Repairing A Real (and Broken) Apollo-era DSKY

The Display/Keyboard unit – DSKY for short – is the primary way that Apollo-era astronauts communicated with the onboard computers. Not all DSKYs ended up in space, however, with the MI…

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After doing outdoorsy things for years I’ve got gear that shows its age. One way #outdoors clothing breaks is the hook-and-loop adjustment straps delaminate. The rubber part comes unglued from the hook-and-loop part. It still sort of works but it flaps about, feels fragile and looks messy if you care about that.

I found a waterproof that happened to recently and I’ve tried #fixing it with Shoe Goo. So far so good, I’ll give an update after it’s had a bit more use.

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