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Found this today, which I had previously forgotten about.

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source: https://saturdayxiii.tumblr.com/post/165590796589

I don’t think I’ve painted in a looong time. source: https://saturdayxiii.tumblr.com/post/165301193429

Right now, the most exciting thing I learned from the DIYPerks Youtube channel is the technique he used to silence the fan on his media center pc.

My biggest pet peeve about the Dreamcast, and subsequently all modern fan using game consoles, is the fan noise. Transporting Matt Perks’ idea has nearly eradicated the issue, and it’s also a fun simple mod to do.  

Just take out the hard plastic housing that the fan is mounted to and mount it with some packing sponge and double sided tape.  Easy peasy!  As a bonus, though completely unnecessary in the Dreamcast, but if your fan actually intakes air, then the sponge can also act as a filter to keep out dust.

I come from a background of high end speaker design where you depend on hard surfaces and solid mounts to drain vibrations out of a device. So the effectiveness of this mod is quite shocking to me, but makes complete sense in this application.

Highly recommended! source: https://saturdayxiii.tumblr.com/post/165261868799

My first instructionless electronics fix. Worked out purely by luck, but I typically can’t hope for better.

Had a lcd driver board arrive dead. With inspection I noticed that one of its chips looked damage. I managed to find a chip online with mostly the same identification numbers and took a risk. Lo, it paid off. …it really shouldn’t have though. I even ripped out two solder pads while removing the old chip. That’s probably the last of my luck used up for a good while source: https://saturdayxiii.tumblr.com/post/163432477994