USING VFDS AS AMPLIFIERS

[HP Friedrichs] sent us this cool writeup on how to use scrapped Vacuum Fluorescent display tubes as amplifiers. For those unfamiliar, a VFD is a display device common to electronics.  numerous have been replaced by LCD, but you can still find them in modern products. [Friedrichs] points out that his …

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PSP SNES CONTROLLER MOD

[foo] sent in this amazingly well done mod to add an SNES controller to a PSP. He was contacted with a request to mod a PSP for someone who had limited use of one hand. The PSP controls were too challenging for her, but miraculously, she could play an SNES …

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PSP 3000 TEARDOWN

If you absolutely feel an incessant need to see the innards of every new piece of equipment out there, you’ll probably be excited to see that the PSP 3000 has been disassembled and photographed. apparently there isn’t much new here. The screen has been replaced with one that has 5 …

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