Category: Soldering
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Custom TP4056 + 10A45 PCB
tl;dr Ive been looking for the perfect lipo charge/boost board to work with my Arduino projects but I’ve never been satisfied with whats on the market. Since I made the custom TP4056 board it got me thinking about how I can utilize that going forward. Then I found the 10A45 tiny boost board and I…
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TP4056 replacement PCB
tl;dr Ive been making a few projects lately that needed to use the TP4056 lipo charging chip, You can buy the units for less than a £1 each delivered to your door which is great but they are quite bulky and don’t have the need CC USB C resistors. I ended up designing my own…
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Light up paracord lanyard
tl;dr Ever since I made my LED paracord usb cable I wanted to build a paracord lanyard with LED’s. I decided It was time tackle this build. Join me below to see what it took to pull it off. Hardware What triggered me to build this lanyard was that I found a lipo that was…
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USB C retrofit 5.1k CC resistors
tl;dr So a few months ago I seen a post on hackaday about adding CC 5.1k resistors to USB C ports that didn’t have them.This would allowed them to be charger from a USB C to USB C charging cable. They had designed a flex PCB and open sourced it so I ordered some to…
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DS Lite USB C mod install guide
So you have purchases one of the DS Lite USB C port replacement kits, I’ll show you below how to install it. Also if you want to purchase a kit they can be found HERE Tear down First thing you need to do is strip your DS Lite down to the motherboard, Follow this guide…
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Game and Watch hacking with RPI (Do not use this guide)
THIS GUIDE IS BROKEN AND SHOULDN’T BE USED, I’M LEAVING IT UP BECAUSE ITS HELPFUL TO SOME PEOPLE. You should consider getting a stlink and using this brilliant guide instead https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/hacktheholidays/b/blog/posts/the-n-o-before-christmas-upgrade-time Lets start by getting the hardware mod done first then moving on to the software side of things. There are 2 ways to do…
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Pumpkin Badge solder kit
tl;dr I wanted to do a solder kit with my daughter and she suggested to find a Halloween one but I couldn’t find one anywhere. This is where I decided to make my own. The only problem I faced was getting the shape of the PCB because I wanted it in the shape of a…
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SVG2Shenzhen
tl;dr I wanted to do a solder kit with my daughter and she suggested to find a Halloween one but I couldn’t find one anywhere. This is where I decided to make my own. The only problem I faced was getting the shape of the PCB because I wanted it in the shape of a…
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Gameboy Macro XL switching screens
tl:dr I recently joined instagram, I was having a look around at all the amazing things people were doing, One thing that stood out as a DS phat that someone had turned into a Gameboy Macro XL but it had a switch so you could make the bottom screen display the top screen and also…
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Attiny85 pogo backpack programmer
tl;dr So you are using a bare attiny85 in your next project but don’t have room for the programming header, What do you do? I came up with the idea of using pogo pins layed out on A PCB so that they will sit on top of the Attiny85 legs. I used standard male jumps…
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