My Commentary and Technical help

The 2009 Rochester NY Hamfest was in a new location this year, It is on the west side of Rochester instead of being South of Rochester. T...

I thought I would give my opinion on gay marriage once again. I hear that we are no longer allowed to have our own opinion on the matter. ...

UPDATE - It was the cable to the screen that was bad. It cost $10 on EBay. I need your help! I have this Dell 1501 laptop that has no ligh...

I purchased a defibrillator capacitor on EBay and have upgraded the old 2.4 KV can crusher to a 5 KV can crusher. I added a voltage doubler ...

Last weekend we changed out the old Nortel SL1 telephone system for a newer Option 11 telephone system. This is the old system's cabinet...

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...