Siliconfish

Hobby blog about tech tips I've picked up, projects I'm working on, or links to useful information and cool stuff. I'm an Electrical Engineer and professional Analog IC designer for 25 years playing in my spare time. Arduino, hacking consumer electronics, video game hardware, satellite TV, PC building, Android apps, appliance repairs and whatever else that interests me.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Microwave Oven Interfering / Killing WiFi

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We had been having a lot of trouble with our home WiFi.    Finally found the cause.  My microwave. Computers would drop connection, then ...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Making the LED blink work on other phones

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The LED Blink app has been out there a couple weeks, either getting rave reviews or being panned for not working.  It appears that just ab...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Hacking the LG 55LW5700 TV

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I bought this TV from Costco after debating between the two models.    This post is about how to turn on some hidden features. ...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Asus EePC 1005PEG replacing LCD screen

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This Asus EePC 1005PEG netbook laptop got dropped off a bed onto a tile floor in a dorm.    It is less than a year old so I decided to try...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Android LED Blink application doing well in the wild

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The LED blink app is a week old and I thought I'd share how it's doing in the wild.  I was surprised by how many installs it got so...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

Replacing the laser in ANOTHER Wii

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My daughter's Nintendo Wii started refusing to recognize that a disk was present, after a period of randomly crashing and freezing and  ...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Debugging and Publishing the Blinker App

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For entertainment I decided to publish a real app to the marketplace.  I wanted to see what it was like, if there were any unknown obstacle...
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