The cats strike again! Luckily for them, the power was off to this strip of LED Christmas lights. A clean cut through one, and partial through the other. Simple and quick, this is actually quite easy. Strip back the insulation,…
I’ve always used over-the-ear, or circumaural, from my first headphones, the RadioShack Pro-60s right up to my Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7b. A pair of Altec Lancing ear buds were my first in-ear style, so it took a bit getting used to. Once…
Not sure why, but the cat really enjoy chewing on the cords in our house. A particular favorite are headphone cables, USB cables and laptop power supply cords. I’ve already shown a headphone repair here, so I will not go…
In the center console of my car, there is a power outlet that I can plug in a car charger. I have typical car charger with a coiled cable that does not allow the phone to lay flat and is…
This is a very long-term project, and one that I’ve been wanting to start for a few years. I purchased the Ultimate Microcontroller Kit with a Netduino microcontroller from Make (p/n MSUMP2). That part number is no longer available, however…
Our cats enjoy chewing on headphone cables, and of course we never catch them in the act. So in this case, a pair of Apple headphones were the victim. This model also has the inline mic and remote, which adds a couple…
The switch box project is finished, at least one of the three. A couple of notes, first of which is that I was going to use a heavier gauge wire from a discarded computer power…
Continued work on the plexiglass front and back panels. The difficultly in this operation is with the stereo jacks, the threaded mount is not long enough to reach through the 3/16″ plexi, so a countersink…
I’ve always had the need to share my computer speakers with a computer and a portable CD player, laptop, or a MP3 player. Years ago, I used a boombox with inputs that were RCA jacks.…
Back in the 1980’s I had a pair of RTR 600D speakers. Massive 4′ tall speakers that could vibrate windows (for houses next door too). They were fantastic speakers, expensive and loud. Too bad a cat used them as a…