I faced the problem that for my ever growing library of photographs I need more space every year. I decided to purchase WD My Book 6TB from Costco. from the first look it seems to be ok hard drive and I decided to give a bit of test to see how it performs. Everything is tested Read More

     Lets test my Christmas present, Crucial MX300 525GB SSD I tested Crucial MX300 525GB SSD attached as secondary drive to my main PC. You can find desktop specification in the very end of the article. Interesting that this SSD comes with Acronis True Image software license Read More

We are looking under the skin of Google Home mini…   I featured Google Home mini in my unboxing and review video on youtube: I was very excited to play more with the toy and I decided to disassemble it to understand better how it works and what is inside ! After a bit Read More

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