Samsung SSD 850 EVO don’t think I can get any faster on SATA3 Today I received my long wanted Samsung EVO 850 3D V-NAND and decided to perform few benchmarks using one of my modern PC on SATA3 bus. Technical Specification: Samsung SSD 850 EVO Product Images Benchmarks Read More

bbc micro:bit – size of a credit card, actually even smaller BBC has long history of developing cool things for computer education ! Back at the time, 35 years ago, they developed BBC Micro a small personal microcomputer for education ! And now they have it successor called Read More

Yet another Sensor Tag – Bluetooth Smart Sensor Tag! Here is another Sensor packed Bluetooth Smart Sensor Tag evaluation/development kit from Broadcom ! Sensor Tag Technical Specifications: Includes multiple low-power MEMS sensors ( gyroscope – L3GD20 , Documentation Read More

When puck is much smarter then you may think… Sensor Puck ! Lets look at development module featuring environmental and biometric sensors with Bluetooth 4 LE from Silicon Labs. Silicon Labs released their Development module to feature biometric sensor SI1147, it Read More

Old school still looks good ! Set of High Resolution photos of Fluke 8600A, this was taken during tear down and repair. Fluke was successfully repaired, main problem was detached input, broken tab and contacts clean-up on ganged switches.   This is how I repaired broken case Read More

Photon – a particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass. Particle Photon is new dev kit from Particle, I just got it recently and want to compare it with Read More

Lets make sure out blue laser doesn’t burn itself This is build log for the water cooling module for 3W 445 nm Blue Laser ( NDB 7875  ), to allow laser run at 2.4A for extended amount of time. Practically you can use any kind of laser diode in the standard AIXIS styl Read More

Lets make something useful with Particle Photon I think temperature logger is a project that can find many application around house. For exaple I want to have temperature logger which will provide temperature measurements in my garage 🙂 Also I will be using it to control Read More

Bescor MP-101 Pan and Tilt head was very useful addition to my photography equipment which allow me to photograph things remotely, but it had one big limitation, well 20ft limitation – extension cord, yes exactly it was remotely controlled with 20ft or upgradable to Read More

Want to build smart watch? I will show you how. Created 3D Printable enclosure for SensorTag2 WatchDev pack, original silicone pocket was kinda looking lame 🙂 3D Files available here – http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:951915 You tube video with details about enclosure / Read More

There are more exiting things you can do now with CC2650 SensorTag 2 Recently TI have introduced 3 new DevPacks you can purchase to make more interesting projects with SensorTag 2 SensorTag 2 is CC2650 based DevPack boasting 10 sensors, low power MCU and 3 Different connectivity Read More

How long you think SensorTag 2 will last on single 3V coin battery? During my first SensorTag2 review  video I had issue with that no all sensors were working properly, I was wondering if I got defective unit, turned out that battery which SensorTag 2 was shipped with was pretty Read More

New SensorTag 2 from TI is really great Bluetooth 4LE Devkit boasting  10 Sensors and low power MCU Today I got new toy from TI, it is CC2650STK SensorTag2 DevKit from Texas Instrument. I was looking long for a device whcih is BLE4 powered and has sensors on it, I was playing Read More

Project: Mean Well power supply mod for RigidBot Big 3dPrinter, 24V / 18A capable In this project I decided to replace original RigidBit Bot power subbly, AKA “RigidBrick” with Mean Well SE-450-24 power supply. RigidBrick is notorious for failing in very wrong moment, Read More

There is truth about Using Aluminum body for Thermistor, after a week of successful run with my newly made Hex Thermistor for my RigidBot 3D Printer (Here is the article how to make one – http://mobilemodding.info/2014/12/diy-hex-thermistor-3d-printers/), I faced the Read More

  This is benchmark of Crucial M500 SSD Benchmark via USB3 isntalled in StarTech external enclosure connected to USB3 Port of Crucial M500 SSD Specs: Brand Crucial Form Factor 2.5-inch internal SSD Module Size 240GB Warranty Limited 3-year Specs Crucial M500 240GB SATA 6Gbps Read More