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Cat Links Randoms, Teardown

Sky+ HD Set Top Box

Posted on August 1, 2016July 21, 2016 The Engineer

Time for another teardown! I managed to fish this Sky+ box out of a skip, but to protect the guilty, all serial numbers have been removed. These are pretty smart devices, with DVR capability on board. There’s a lot of ports on these units, from RS-232 serial, POTS modem, eSATA,

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Cat Links Hacks, Personal Project, RasPi

Raspberry Pi GPIO Experiment Board Improvements

Posted on July 28, 2012July 28, 2012 The Engineer

Here are the first set of mods & improvements to the RasPi Experiment board. Instead of the solder-point experiment space, I have added a standard mini-breadboard, even though it’s a little too long to fit on the board properly. In the DIP breakout, is a MAX232 TTL-RS232 interface IC, useful

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