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Articles and tutorials about electronics, embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, software developement, etc…

Replacing Laptop’s Hard Disk with a SSD Drive

HDD v.s. SSD

The performance benefit when going from a good old mechanical hard drive to a solid state drive is huge! If you are planning to do this for your laptop, hopefully this video can show you how to do it yourself!

Repairing bad capacitors in a monitor’s power supply

Good Bad Ugly Capacitors

A very common problem with power supply boards, motherboards and generally all PCs and TVs  which are produced between 1999 and 2007 is the premature defect on some Taiwanese made electrolyte capacitors with bad electrolyte formula. Although this problem is said…