Bob Adams 5

Why ESD bags are the best static safe storage solution and nothing else comes close

My kid’s used bicycle came with this controller and he ripped the LED string off.

After many years of using Fusion 360, I have started to learn FreeCAD to support open source options and to get around the 10 editable designs limit.

At the end of August, I set out on a 12-week fitness plan generated by X’s Grok AI to improve my running time.

This post covers a quick repair that I did for a family member who had mechanically damaged their USB Flash Drive.

In 2021 I was given the opportunity to take the hop harvest from a family friend’s house.

Due to some personal circumstances, I have found myself in need of a more rigorous fitness regime.

A brief investigation into an early 2000s era keyboard.

After three years of accumulating parts, I finished a home server for hosting media, git repositories, and backups.

A first step into reverse engineering the electronics of the Google Home Mini

One of the more frustrating things when extracting flash memories is finding so many footprints that don’t have off the shelf sockets.

Turning a pile of batteries into a neatly organized drawer.

Starting with the most unresponsive devices, it is time to start taking them apart.

A summary of what I printed, my first impressions of 3D printing, and my general thoughts on the machine.

With two-year cell phone replacement timelines, there is a large amount of electronic scrap floating around.

This post is a quick overview for a fix I had to implement on a toddler ride-on push car.

I have been fascinated by Root VC for a while due to their relatively large number of investments in companies that make physical hardware.

Relegated to the free bin of a 2023 garage sale, what is inside this decades old piece of technology?

I picked up this camera for $0.50 last year and was curious about what can be found inside.

When my toddler knocked over the baby’s camera unit it stopped powering on.

In this post I go through my thoughts on two different note taking apps as I have used them to keep notes on homebrewing, electronics, daily to-dos, etc.

This post gives the results of a brewing water analysis performed on water samples from my tap as well as from my Berkey water filter.

Although I did not explicitly set out to read a book per month in 2020, it worked out to be roughly that amount based on the habits I built in 2019.

This post provides guidance for people who need to swap elements between TO1303SB toaster ovens while building a Controleo3.

One of my goals in 2019 was to read at least one book per month.

This post covers my implementation of MIT’s Coffee Can Radar project.

In this post, I will go through and review my experiences with Coursera over the last three years.