So my birthday came and went, a friend wanted to buy me something, i couldn’t really think of anything except a very fine tipped soldering iron. So we set a budget and I went looking and researching. I came up with the Hakko FX-951 but that retails for 4-500$ – but it seemed to have the tips easily and cheaply available for it. I use BangGood a lot for sourcing products, so i had a

Last couple of Blog posts have been about fixing the Chinese CNC machine I have, it is really badly thought out… after having issues for a few days trying to get the Bed Probes being consistent, they have appeared at time mostly random… this led me to believe that it was not a problem of how I was levelling them bed. Rather Something wrong with the Z axis and the probe data being sent through.

I moved into this house, and have struggled with lighting the whole time… Recently after a long break from electronics i decided to set up my work space properly… I don’t know maybe being here did not feel permanent… and now it does. Apart from getting some shelving over the last year, this week I purchased 2 corner desks… one for each of the workspaces in this apartment. So the desks will arrive this week

So now that I have successfully repaired my PCB Cutting CNC Machine, I managed to cut a new PSU board for the Hybrid headphone amp, I will try populate it next few days… But yes back to electronics, back to reading, prototyping and researching new cool designs to make as projects for this page.

I have had a few months spent on other projects… which for now are finished… Will be starting where we left off… have a bunch of stock to add… and a heap of prototypes to finish… Hope to be working on the Project section again very soon… Am currently fixing my PCB engraving CNC router. Its been a strange year and unfortunately other projects got in the way… But we are back 🙂 and look