Archive for August, 2008

iPhone 3G: Battery Life – Part 6 (Final)

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iPhone 3G: Battery Life – Part 5

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iPhone 3G: Battery Life – Part 4

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iPhone 3G: Battery Life – Part 3

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iPhone 3G: Battery Life – Part 2

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iPhone 3G: Battery Life – Part 1

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Surprise! Geek Squad Car at my House.

So I go home today and to my surprise there is a Geek Squad car on my driveway.
I consider myself very knowledgeable in technology and especially computers. So when I saw that someone in my family had called Geek Squad I was offended! Why would they not ask me for help. There is no need [...]


Variable Linear Voltage Regulator: Part 2

Now that I have a little more time on my hands, I have decided to transfer the voltage regulator circuit that I previously posted about onto a strip board.
I am still trying to work out the best layout of the components but here are a couple of pics of what I have so far. In [...]


iPhone 3G Holster

When I bought my Black 16GB iPhone 3G, I could not decide whether I wanted to buy a case for it to protect the phone or if I wanted it bare so I could see and feel the iPhone (the iPhone is beautiful and the new 3G one feels A LOT better in your hands [...]


iPhone 2.0.1 Update is Out

Apple came out with a software update yesterday (Monday). While it is not version 2.1 which rumors say will have cut and paste capabilities, this iPhone OS update does (supposedly) fix the sluggish performance experienced by users after the 2.0 update.
Apple has been very “secretive” as to what this 2.0.1 patch actually fixes/improves keeping the [...]


TV Remote Jammer

This was a fun project. I got the idea for it at a website (I cannot remember which at the moment). The idea is simple: You make a circuit that sends out an IR (infrared) signal to the TV with the same frequency at which the TV remote operates, essentially ”masking” or “jamming” the signal coming from the [...]


Logic Probe

Once again, I decided to build my own equipment instead of buying it for a lot more. This time it’s a logic probe. It uses a 12F PIC to detect when a signal is high (1) or low (0). Being that it has a lot of pins and only one is needed for the probe, [...]


Learning to use PICs

Throughout my undergraduate career I focused entirely on analog circuits. Now that I started this hobby, there was no avoiding digital and to be honest, I felt horrible that I had a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and I knew very little about the digital side of things. Because of this I set out to [...]


Apple iPhone 3G: My experience

I bought the iPhone 3G the weekend it came out. Waited about 4 hours in line for it. I already had some experience with an iPhone since I had bought my girlfriend the first generation version (I decided to wait until 3G and GPS was in the phone).
After getting the iPhone 3G I began running [...]


Blogging from my iPhone

I am testing the Wordpress app on my iPhone. Hopefully it works.


Variable Linear Voltage Regulator

This little circuit is a money saver! Before making it, I was looking for a varibale power supply for my projects and the prices were usually well above $100. It wasn’t until I went to the electro-tech-online.com forums and talked to some people there that I realized that I could just make my own power [...]


Stereo Audio Amplifier

The very first circuit that I ever made on my own was a stereo audio amplifier. I chose to make this circuit out of necessity. At the internship I was in, the computer seemed to not amplify the audio coming out of it and my speakers did not have an amplifier either and so the [...]


Hello World!

Well hello fellow viewers. This is my very first post on this blog. I am still unsure of the aim of this blog but for now I think I will focus on my hobby: electronics.
I recently got into this hobby and so far have invested well over $300 on it. In my opinion that is very [...]