My Commentary and Technical help

Here are some Viewsonic VP181 LCD monitor repair tips. I picked up a lot of LCD screens on EBay a while back and one of the last ones to be ...

The promised and much awaited 2400 volt power supply went through its first test run. The video is up on YouTube. It was a little disappoi...

Sometimes it just makes sense to fix things yourself. The air deflector on my van was scraping on the road whenever I hit a bump. It would r...

If you would like to donate your old LCD monitor and see how it was fixed here on my blog, please contact me. The same goes for P3 or newer ...

Interfacing the Basic Stamp to dual 7 Segment Displays This requires two seven segment common anode displays and 16 x 470 ohm resistors. ...

My interest in the Basic Stamp started as an upgrade for several of my inventions. Many years ago I designed several devices and several of...

I sold something on eBay and had some money to spare. I also needed a LCD monitor for a friend so I placed a minimum bid on some LCD screens...

Have you ever plugged in your USB memory stick and then get a warning message saying that a virus has been found on it? The anti virus progr...

I know that I do not blog much about car problems. There was a day when I fixed most of my own car problems. However this repair was a bit o...

It seems like every few months I get a virus that I have to deal with. My favorite thing is to switch to another hard drive with a clean ins...

This is an ongoing story and I thought I would update it. Below is the seismometer located on Redoubt Alaska. Needless to say it was going ...

Is it just me or are there a lot of HP motherboards with a broken power jack? Replacing the jack will not fix it as the board is damaged aro...

We are back in Accra Africa. We already received a testimony from the equipment that we brought over with us; "Please Dad [Fred] tell...

I thought I would give my opinion on the so called ' Government Stimulu s'. Since when does taking money from the poor to feed the...

We are 4 days from leaving for Africa and a Dell C400 laptop had its cooling fan quit. What do I do when there is not enough time to order a...

About a year ago I bought some generic ink cartridges on EBay. They leaked and were replaced with a second set of generic cartridges. Unfort...

I returned from Florida to find out that the heat was off and that the pipes were frozen and had burst. Some of the valves and fittings were...

I thought I would update this post by showing a map of the US and the locations of all of the earthquakes that have happened in just the las...

I am working on what will be the biggest washer launcher or can crusher that I have ever made. If you have not seen the old washer launcher ...