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.

Monday, September 24, 2012

DirecTV 5LNB Non-SWM and TiVo HD THR22 Hookup Odyssey

Posting this epic tale in hopes it helps someone else, and to keep track of what equipment I have installed. It has been almost a year sin...

Friday, September 14, 2012

ISP Programming an Atmel AVR

Bought an Atmel AVR programmer from Digikey. I'm working on a project where I need to be able to directly program the Microcontroller i...

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Suicide for the strobe/flashlight app on Google

I decided to pull the silicon fish blinky app off the market. At the bottom are the comments I was getting. I can't handle the shame. ...

Monday, July 9, 2012

XFX 4890 Graphics card fan replacement - Shameful hack

Because of my sense of humor, I'll share my fix for a bad fan on my XFX Radeon 4890 graphics card, otherwise known as a VGA cooling fan....

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Windows Security Suite virus - The most concentrated evil juice there is

My son somehow picked up Windows Protection Suite on his PC. It started with a a pop up, and ended up hijacking all the browsers and maki...

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Telemetry logger android app

In order to make some augmented reality apps, and some other cool robot and telemetry apps, I decided to make a small app that reads out al...

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Found/Fixed an LG C729 android phone with broken screen

I found this on the street in front of my house. It is a nice android phone that had been run over by a car. I couldn't believe...

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