Undocumented Code

Random stuff to do with hardware and software that generally comes from salvaged electronics that never really deserved to be salvaged and weird software stuff.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Reverse Engineering a LED Display PCB

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While salvaging the case for my retro gaming computer, I neglected to take the display board apart. That's because I wanted to trace the...

Monday, January 16, 2017

Making a Game Console Part 1 - Salvaging a Case

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Some of my favorite games run on very old software. I'm talking Windows 98 kind of old. Windows 98 is, in my opinion, the best pre-NT ve...

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Load Hangouts Messages into BigQuery

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I use Google Hangouts to talk to my girlfriend. I like it because it's a part of the Google stack and it's cross platform. It also s...

Monday, December 5, 2016

Another Printer Partout

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Welcome to another edition of "Taking Apart Printers!" Today, we're taking apart a HP Photosmart C4680. I'm kinda excited ...

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Taking Apart Toy Video Cameras

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Toy cameras. They're fun to give to kids so they can take pictures without ruining your camera. They're low quality and cheap. But w...

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

DJ Hard Drive Turn Table Part 3 - Playing Audio

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So now the turn table is writing output to the serial connection off of the Arduino. This is very good. But what good is it if we can't ...

Monday, October 31, 2016

State of the Blog

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About one year ago, I started this blog as a place for interesting computer stuff I did so people could learn as I did about new and often u...

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