Dell DJ Home Repairs

Friday, February 1st, 2008

For the past few months, the headphone jack on my 2nd-generation Dell DJ portable audio player has been acting up. More specifically, I haven't been able to get any sound out of the left channel unless I pulled the headphone cable tight towards the back of the player and wound ...

It's Alive!

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I've spent a good portion of the last two nights soldering/assembling the ProtoShield for my new Arduino microcontroller board and building some of the projects included in this set of tutorials. While none of these are necessarily earth-shattering, they've been fun and have encouraged me to eventually take on larger ...

If You Build It…

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Over the past few weeks, I've been reading books on electronics and do-it-yourself hardware projects. I've also ordered myself a microcontroller kit, a multimeter, a soldering station, and a few of the other accessories required to get underway on some of the basic projects I am interested in. I've always thought ...