Things you have fixed/modded recently

[ciaomao]

Since Logitech has shut down its server and my Squeezebox kitchen radio no longer works, I have built my own radio server. The setup actually only consists of a Raspberry Zero and an Ethernet/SPI bridge. The built is a bit older, but despite the housing, I always had contact problems with the fine winding wire. With the new cables it should now hold. I'll just use some tape for the new housing. Pretty ugly, but it works.

 

[RAHelllord]

Finally found the culprit for the power issues on my GBA, it was a fucked up battery terminal.

Soldered replacements in and now it's no longer flickering like crazy.

 

[Skv0ra]

Bout to go grab 2xLR44's

 

[RAHelllord]

Reshelled both of my SPs today. Put the 101 into the transparent blue shell that my old 001 was occupying, and put my 001 into the free black shell that RetroModding sent me by accident and told me to keep it.
Luckily the black shell did come with a free plastic lens so I was also able to remove the scratches from the 101's display that way.

Also had much less trouble removing the hinges from the silver shell and put them into the black one, that was nice.

All in all I'm very happy with this. Sadly I can't find the smoke black volume slider cover, which I'm fairly confident I have. The 101 has the slider that can be replaced, so that would've been fitting. Maybe I'll find it eventually, or I'll just buy another set.

 

[Skv0ra]

Built and magged my Nyaoha kit. Hella glad it worked out!

 

[hippy dave]

Using hax I just upgraded my cranky old Macbook Air from High Sierra, which is the last macOS version Apple allows it to run, to Monterey, which is two major versions (wait... maybe more?) newer. Some more of my main apps were starting to no longer run newer versions on the ancient macOS, so I was happy to discover a few days ago that people have put together a whole well-developed system of patches and info for running newer macOS unofficially. I could have installed an even newer version, but apparently they can be more demanding and performance may go down on such ancient computers, so I decided to try Monterey as the oldest major version that's still receiving updates. So far the performance seems pretty slick tbh, am happy with it.

This didn't work super well in the long term, got very laggy. Might have been because I did an in-place upgrade with apps, data and tweaks intact.

Now this 14 year old MBA is back to being my secondary computer (replaced the screen on my newer laptop), I decided to wipe it and give it a minimal reinstall to keep the performance up. Went down another major OS version to Big Sur, which is the oldest supported by the patcher and I think the oldest that supports most current apps. Formatted before install so no leftovers to cause issues. I've since installed Firefox and Transmission Remote GUI to monitor my torrents, and nothing else so far. If it feels necessary I might look into disabling unneeded system services to make it more lightweight, but so far it's nice and snappy, hoping to keep it that way.

I'm also intending to replace the old Windows 7 partition with a lightweight Linux distro, so I can have another option for running smoothly, and to have a Linux system on hand besides the Raspberry Pis. I thought Lubuntu sounded promising in terms of being lightweight yet having access to the fattest software repositories. We'll see.

Despite its age this MBA is still physically a really nice smol thin light laptop, so as long as I can use it for web stuff etc without it lagging annoyingly all the time, it will make a pleasant secondary laptop for when I don't want to lug around my fat 16-incher.

 

[nasune]

Managed to fix my xbox 360. A couple of years ago a botched attempt at RGH-ing the console caused a resistor to be ripped from the motherboard (this sadly included the pads). Now, years later I managed to solder a slightly larger (0805) 10K resistor to the trace on one side, and to a via flooded with solder on the other side.
I did not have much hope (and amusingly enough decided to buy a new 360 a week ago), but after connecting everything up it actually booted up without issue. Now I'm thinking to (once more attempt to) RGH it at some point in the future (albeit with the alternate PLL solder point).

 

[Fien]

Not really fixed, but I "retrobrighted" my yellowed SNES I got for free some weeks ago. It was sunny and warm for a couple of days so I put my SNES casing outside in hydrogen peroxide. Two days for the top, one day for the bottom part.

It's not perfect, the bottom and logo part is a bit darker. And the reset-button is bleached. But I think it still looks a lot better then before

 

[icegod]

Put a HDMI Mod inside my N64. Finest soldering I've ever done!

 

[SylverReZ]

Put a HDMI Mod inside my N64. Finest soldering I've ever done!

Can I see your soldering work because I'll be interested.

 

[ciaomao]

I have built a SIDPod. It's at henrikenblom GitHub page. Next step is to trim it and build a case.

 

[hippy dave]

I have built a SIDPod. It's at henrikenblom GitHub page. Next step is to trim it and build a case.
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Aw here was me hoping it would have a real SID chip on board

 

[ciaomao]

Aw here was me hoping it would have a real SID chip on board

oh, my goodness no! repeat after me: “we must not sacrifice original SID chips”

 

[Skv0ra]

RIP first set of winters, 6 winters brought that DWS tread rating to half an L.

Summer time tho!

 

[hippy dave]

This is Onyx and Diamond

Edit: whoops thought I was in the "got" thread, not the "fixed" thread

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Work bought 20 Dualsense controllers to refurb and resell, and one of them happened to be a DualSense Edge.

Battery doesn't seem to work and has stick drift, and while the sticks are just replaceable, you could also just recalibrate them to fix drift issues...except Sony in their infinite wisdom has the flash chip that stores configuration write-locked. But someone recently figured out how to remove the write lock by soldering from an 1.8v point to a test point, so did that, recalibrated the sticks and no more drift Still have to figure out the power issues, but I almost never play wirelessly so I'm not sure if I'll bother trying to fix it fully.

Spoiler: modifications

 

[JuanMena]

Repurposed LEDs, USB Cables and now I can play DMG Gameboy at night.

 

[icegod]

Can I see your soldering work because I'll be interested.

Sorry for the delay, one of those weeks...

Sadly I didn't take a picture, but I will have to open it up again soon, because I forgot to trim the cartridge slot. I'll be sure to take a picture then.

 

[fringle]

SFC with APU error. Swapped 4 of the sound chips before I got the correct sram one. Part of a lot I got from Japan. It was the cleanest one of the bunch and thought it would be the one that worked but nope. The one that worked was the dirtiest one. Go figure! Also, recapped.

 

[JuanMena]

More Light...

120V LED bulb running in under 20V (19.8-something)