Been to the cinema just now watching #ProjectHailMary.

Cool, but here’s what I thought: if only there was some kind of a #service that offers movies with real deep scientific context… Movies, that would not only let you experience emotions, but also teach you something new on a serious level.

Would you subscribe if it had movies with both a decent story and, say, deep cuts on #engineering ,#electronics , #chemistry, #biology and so on?

Who knows - maybe someday #AI will be offering lthat.

Literally no one: –

Me: how about having some unnecessary #BGA #soldering practice in the shape of upgrading #RAM on a #Radxa 4B Plus from 2GB to 4GB? 🤣

Well that did not go as planned.

I used Samsung K4F6E3S4HMMGCJ 2GB RAM chips from #RaspberryPi 4B. With those Radxa would power on, but won't boot and won't go into recovery mode. Only Maskrom works but I wasn't able even to flash a firmware.

Originally it has two HYNIX H9HCNNN8KUMLHR-NME chips - I wonder what makes those different... 🤔

This cute little fella popped up on the bench today for bios flash.

Customer had this very PC already fixed in another shop, then decided to update bios himself and unit stopped posting.

Love how easy this GMKTec K12 is to disassemble really. Though bios chip choice and placement are rather questionable - was unable to reach it with my clip and had to desolder.

Anyways it was a nice and easy morning routine, so why not ✅

#bios #firmware #repair #electronics #gmktec #svod4 #ifixit

And all of us are paying for that one way or another.

As modern day officials tend to say - if true - it is indeed deeply concerning.

#AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGDM92QYa60

Learning new stuff - programming ITE EC chip over the keyboard connector with #SVOD4 without needing to desolder the chip.

One thing I can tell you is you better use a microscope to make sure you’re picking the right ribbon cable and that you align it well while plugging.

Quite a fiddly thing to deal with but eventually I made it work.

#repair #electronicsrepair #electronics #ifixit #laptoprepair #ite #ec