Pins on the back of the CPU socket of an old PC motherboard

Photos from an article about some different identifying marks on chips. You can read that article here.

finished clock, right side is testing white LED backlights.

The Real Canadian Superstore located on Prince of Wales Drive in Regina, is considered to be "ancient." Their electronics department is an example of that. I haven't seen an electronics department in the middle of the store since... 2000?

Some shots from the electronics flea market. I took these around 11 when I was done browsing, so a lot of vendors had already left or started packing up.

Electronics flea market! Read more here.

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I had to use a magnifier to read these fucking things.

Electronics

Internal view of circuit bent Panasonic WJ-AVE5 video mixer

Telemetry sender using ATmega 168 and the XBee Pro RF module. Is to be mounted in a RC helicopter. Pcb from www.batchpcb.com.

Electronics repair store, 1933 W. Chicago Ave.

Finally had an awesome haul! I found an ad on the local forms for a box of "Misc Electronics". I checked the add and read it and it seemed to have some game stuff. So I let them know I would buy it. I got the box home and I started rummaging through it only to find that I hit a nice gold mine. here is what was in the box:

35mm Minolta Camera 350-X /w accessories

2 small 35mm cameras

kodak easyshare camera C433 (Broken LCD Display)

Panasonic VHSC Camcorder

Durabrand DVD player

Mustek Portable DVD Player

Sony Rechargable Battery Charger

SanDisk Sensa Clip 2GB MP3 Player

Xbox 360 /w 20 GB HDD

2 Wireless controllers with battery and charge kit

2 xbox controllers

xbox dance mat

3 computer mice

2 webcams

HP Deskjet printer

HP All-in-one printer

pocket dictionary/organizer

Game Boy Color

Nintendo 64 with 2 sets of hookups

2 N64 controllers

South Park (N64)

Madden 64 (N64)

Diddy Kong Racing (N64)

Soldier of Fortune: Payback (Xbox 360)

MLB Slugfest Loaded (Xbox)

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 (PS)

Tekken 3 (PS)

Road Rash (PS)

IHRA Drag Racing (PS)

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (PS)

Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed (PS)

In case your wondering, the box was $75.

Upon getting it home. I have tested a few things already. The webcams and MP3 player work great. However the 360 has RROD. Ironically though, it is under warranty, so I called Microsoft and they are fixing it for free.

Open electronics course for beginners, totally free of charge

"Elektroniikan alkeet" 4.3.2012

Analyzing an audio signal.

Electronics factory worker, Cikarang, Indonesia © ILO/Asrian Mirza

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A badge of mastery of energy.

And a useful chart of the formulas of electronics. Each symbol (ohms volts amps watts) has its own quadrant showing how to derive it using combinations of the other symbols.

Available here as part of the Mefi flickr group.

From SKPang www.skpang.co.uk/

LG Electronics will be making a lot of their consumer base happy, as they began accepting pre-orders for its highly-anticipated 55” WRGB OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TV (Model 55EM9700) in South Korea this month, with the earliest deliveries expected to initiate by next month.

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470 Ohm Resistor

This is the "clean" PCB, as seen through the magnifying glass.

The idea is to join the dots... placing the right components in between. Luckily there's always a shema printed on the reverse of the PCB ;)

rear for electronics

This was sent twelve times through a laminator.

May 1959.

Step one: pop off the battery cover.

Taking things apart is fun. Details here.

Early electronics, i replaced the speed controller and the motors.

A Knox College student disassembles old electronic devices in a physics department lab, prior to recycling.

Photo from a random schematic I made a while back. For those intrested, a small project description can be found at bas.woodpecker.gotdns.org/pic.php#WoodWatcher

Here you can see ceramic-metal packaged hybrid circuits.

I made this to convince my laptop there's an external VGA display connected, to allow me to use my new USB KVM.

The more observant among you will notice I've used 100 ohm resistors, and I ought to have used 75 ohm. The simple reason is I don't have any 75 ohm resistors right now. :-)