The Curious Engineer

All blogs / General

Syonyk's Project Blog

sevarg.net

A quiet corner of the internet.

GeneralElectronics

’15’20’25
Posts
339 from 1 Apr 2013 to 23 Jun 2025
Posting
now and then
Kind
personal blog
Feed
https://www.sevarg.net/feed.xml

2025 13

  1. EBR-I Museum, Nuclear Jet Engines, and Automation
  2. Orange Bag Plastic Experimental Lab
  3. The Thermal Master P2 Pro Thermal Imager Review
  4. Epub Printing for Prison Mail
  5. Breaking Out of the Baptist Box
  6. Ural Notes Part 7: This is Ural Life...
  7. N-Up PDF Printing for Prison Mail
  8. Ural Notes Part 6: More Electrical Work
  9. Ural Notes Part 5: Winter Improvements
  10. Ural Notes Part 4: Flux and Foil
  11. Quad Printing PDFs for Prison Mailing and the Immerse Reading Bible
  12. Ural Notes Part 3: Stopping and Going
  13. Ural Notes Part 2: Electrical and Lighting

2024 17

  1. Ural Notes Part 1: General Notes
  2. Prison Communication in Canyon County and Idaho State Prisons
  3. Charcoal Experiments #2: Propane Fired Charcoal
  4. Charcoal Experiments #1: The Solo Stove Process
  5. Seeking Solitude in Glenns Ferry, Idaho
  6. Goldendale, Washington Car Meet
  7. The 14" K&M Krusher: Rock Dust on Demand
  8. Bickleton, Washington and the Carousel Museum
  9. Frigidaire Dishwasher Repair: Not Filling
  10. Property Progress: Septic Tank Removal
  11. Having a Blast with Ural Petcocks
  12. Hot Pot: Experiments in Stove Burners and Empty Pots
  13. 2002-2004 Honda Odyssey EGR Passage Cleaning
  14. Soraa ZeroBlue: A Beautiful Violet-Pumped LED With Minimal Blue!
  15. Deck Part 4: Stairs, Edges, Umbrellas, and Bats
  16. Deck Part 3: Trexing
  17. Deck Part 2: Framing

2023 27

  1. More Flip Phones: The Sonim XP3+
  2. Solar Shed Part 19: Going Lithium with EG4-LLs
  3. Deck Part 1: Footings and Ledger Board
  4. A Return to Records
  5. Keropunk Part 5: Mantle Lanterns
  6. ODroid H3/H3+: x86 SBCs with Qubes and Ubuntu
  7. The Warhawk Air Musem - Nampa, Idaho
  8. Ada County Landfill Tour
  9. Monster Jam!
  10. Blue Blockers and Night Light Filters for Sleep: Do They Work?
  11. Driving Antique Cars in North Idaho
  12. QubesOS: Silos of Isolation
  13. The InfiRay P2 Pro Thermal Imager Review
  14. Bulb Reviews: Incandescents Ancient and Modern
  15. Bulb Reviews: A Range of Modern LED Bulbs
  16. Family Trip to The Dalles, Oregon - 2023
  17. Idaho Power Proposed Solar Net Metering Changes 2023 - IPC-E-23-14
  18. Building the SolarBotics GraviTrack
  19. Dual Booting Win10 and Ubuntu 22.04 on a 2008 MacBook C2D
  20. Bulb Reviews: Ecosmart Smart Bulb Wi-Fi Tunable and Full Color LED
  21. Why People Hate Tech: A Response to Tech Entrepreneurship and Shifting Sentiment
  22. Bulb Reviews: Philips Smart Wi-Fi Tunable and Full Color LED
  23. Bulb Reviews: Feit Electric Wifi Smart RGB
  24. How Your LED Lights and Screens are Killing You
  25. Home Optical Spectrometry: The B&W Tek BTC100-2S
  26. Ubuntu 22.04 on the ODroid N2+
  27. Battle of the Boards 2023: Rock5B and Kernel Builds

2022 23

  1. New Years Resolutions 2023: Radical reduction in consumer tech use
  2. Improving Thinkpad T430s Bluetooth by Replacing the Wireless Card
  3. Keropunk Part 4: Kerosene Heaters Thermal Images and Operating Notes
  4. Keropunk Part 3: Kerosene Radiant Heaters
  5. Keropunk Part 2: Lantern Analysis
  6. Keropunk Part 1: Lanterns
  7. Solar Tourism in Utah
  8. Golden Spike National Historic Park
  9. Recent Travels: Owyhees and Utah
  10. The HTI HT-19 Thermal Imager Review
  11. Journey to the Center of the Junction Box
  12. Analyzing iOS 16 Lockdown Mode: Browser Features and Performance
  13. Solar Troubleshooting: Hunting SMA String Arc Faults
  14. Family Trip to The Dalles, Oregon, and the National Neon Sign Museum
  15. Rebuilding a Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000
  16. The End of the Idaho DBS Solar Plans Review Process
  17. Technology and Diminishing to Negative Returns
  18. Tech Philosophy Ponderings 2022
  19. Minecraft 1.18.2 on the Raspberry Pi 4, ODroid N2+, and PineBook Pro
  20. Solar Performance Summary 2021 and Lent 2022
  21. Pine64 vs ODROID eMMC Performance Testing
  22. Experiments in KaiOS: The Bananaphone and the Flip IV
  23. Battle of the Boards 2022: Pi4 vs N2+ vs PineBook Pro

2021 23

  1. Raspberry Pi OS: 32-bit vs 64-bit Benchmarking
  2. Family Trips: 2600 Miles to Arizona and Back
  3. On the Art of Tractor Tire Replacement
  4. Flying to Glenn's Ferry and Y Knot Winery for Lunch
  5. Installing Trailer Wiring on a 2012 Chevy Volt
  6. Installing an EcoHitch Invisi on a 2012 Chevy Volt
  7. 4k Sectors vs 512 Byte Sector Benchmarks, and a 20 Year Reflection
  8. The Temtop P1000 and M2000 Air Quality Sensors
  9. Apple, CSAM Scanning, and You
  10. Ladybugs!
  11. Replacing the drain pump in a LG WM3370HVA Front Loading Washer
  12. Moving my blog from Blogger to Jekyll
  13. So... Starlink!
  14. Solar 2020 Part 12: Code, Inspections, Rework, and Operation!
  15. Solar 2020 Part 11: South Frames
  16. 1930 Willys 8-80D: Picking it Up from Oregon!
  17. The Evergreen Aviation Museum and the Spruce Goose
  18. Solar 2020 Part 10: Installing the Panels
  19. Life at the Speed of a Tractor
  20. Solar 2020 Part 9: Mounting the A-Frame Rails
  21. Solar 2020 Part 8: Underground Conduit and DC Wire Pulls
  22. The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and BOINC
  23. The Blog is Back

2020 18

  1. End of the Blog: The New Blogger Interface is Broken
  2. Solar 2020 Part 7: Inverters, Conduit, and AC Wiring
  3. Solar 2020 Part 6: Equipment Overview
  4. Home Solar 2020 Part 5: The House A-Frames
  5. Home Solar 2020 Part 4: Uprights and Side Rails
  6. Solar 2020 Part 3: Home Concrete Footings
  7. Solar 2020 Part 2: Office A-Frames, Local Wildlife, and Comets
  8. Happy 4th of July in a Dying Empire!
  9. Apple and the ARM Transition
  10. Solar 2020 Part 1: Office Concrete Footings & Side Rails
  11. On Working From Home and the Joys of Shed Offices
  12. Upgrading a Power Wheels with an Electric Speed Controller
  13. Slow, Dumb Charging: Quit Charging for EV Charging!
  14. GCE Preemptible Instances: Cheap Distributed Compute Cycles
  15. Low Distraction Lent 2020
  16. Finances, Technology, Repair, and "Enough"
  17. Makita and Rayovac Battery Pack Teardowns
  18. End of 2019/Start of 2020

2019 28

  1. Roomba i7+ Clean Base Teardown
  2. Building a Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop
  3. Being sick sucks.
  4. Battle of the Boards: Jetson Nano vs Raspberry Pi 4 (and overclocked)
  5. What Replaces 1:1 Net Metering?
  6. Random Kid Projects: AM Radios, Line Following Cars, and Powerwheels
  7. Solar Shed Part 18: Resolving Water Ingress
  8. A Tale of a Ural Head
  9. Adding a Public EV Charging Station Near Nampa, ID
  10. Electric Vehicles in the Treasure Valley
  11. Analog Games: Do you play?
  12. G600 "600x" Digital Microscope Teardown & Review
  13. Running a Post Hole Digger on a Ford 9N
  14. I bought a used Chevy Volt - and you probably should too!
  15. Shipping Container Hanging Shelves (and my recycling system)
  16. Clank: Reviving an Ancient Netbook (and replacing an iPhone 6S rear lens)
  17. The Best USB Power Supply I've Found Yet: A Home Depot Surge Protector!
  18. What happens when you try to quit Facebook?
  19. The 200th Post Reflections
  20. nVidia Jetson Nano: Desktop Use, Kernel Builds, and Deeper Analysis
  21. Benchmarking the Brand New nVidia Jetson Nano: 4GB, USB 3, $99!
  22. Boeing, Airbus, Tesla, and Automation
  23. Our Little Neighborhood Library
  24. UE Mini Boom Teardown
  25. Thinkpad T430S IPS Screen Upgrade
  26. Solar Ultrasonic Critter Repeller Teardown
  27. Shipping Container Shelves
  28. 2018 Reflections, 2019 Resolutions

2018 52

  1. Roomba i7 Teardown: Why is there a waving cat with a lint roller inside?
  2. Drones, Gatwick, Flying Things, and Regulations
  3. The EBD-M05 Battery Tester: 19.5V, 5A, 30W, useful software!
  4. Sides for a Flatbed Trailer: Building a bulk material hauler
  5. Senior Citizen Political Junkmail: The Social Security Roll Call
  6. Property Progress #3
  7. Church Planting Tech: Rugged Audio/Lighting Cables for Just Over $1/ft
  8. Open discussion post!
  9. Cable Building: Technical Experiments and Failures
  10. Cleaning up a TV Install: In-Wall Cable Kits, Wall Mounted NUCs!
  11. SANUS SF34-B1 Steel Series Bookshelf Speaker Stands
  12. Silencing a NUC: The Akasa Plato X7 Fanless Case
  13. Stromer ST1 Electric Bike Battery Pack Teardown
  14. Freezer Repair and Thermostat Teardown
  15. Peak Smartphone: Backlash against the Predatory Smartphone and Social Media
  16. Project Pi3B+Desk - Making an even better desktop from the Raspberry Pi 3B+!
  17. Raspberry Pi 3B+: The FLIRC Case, Thermals, and GPIO Controlled Fans
  18. Tool Battery Teardowns: Craftsman 19.2V and Ridgid 12V
  19. Technology, Anti-fragility of Property, and Ferrets
  20. Tool Battery Teardowns: The 12V Lithium Twins (DeWalt and Ryobi)
  21. Wildfires in the Western United States
  22. Church Planting Tech: "Tourizing" XLR and DMX Cables
  23. Bonus Winter Pictures from 2016-2017!
  24. Property Progress #2
  25. MingHe DPS6015A: Serial Communication Protocol for TTL/RS232/RS485
  26. MingHe DPS6015A 80V to 60V/15A/900W Buck Converter Review - With Serial!
  27. Deck Boxes and Deer Mice: Strengthening a Deck Box
  28. The ATORCH "Purple Fan" MOSFET Destroyer and "150W" Load Bank
  29. New kid, and on birth centers
  30. A Tale of Two $30 Load Banks: 60V, 150W, one awesome, one junk
  31. Building the "Ultimate Compost Bin"
  32. What's the Difference Between a $150 and $600 MPPT Charge Controller? The MakeSkyBlue MPPT
  33. Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work With the Grid Down - And What You Can Do About It
  34. Property Progress #1
  35. So, you wanna go off grid...
  36. PIREPs #1
  37. Off Grid System Design Considerations and Battery Types
  38. On the Art of Repair: Re-Capacitoring an Old Mainboard
  39. Off Grid/RV Lead Acid Maintenance, Charging, and Failure Modes
  40. 40 Days Without Casual Internet: The Results
  41. Rural Ruin: Old Cabins and Ruins of Civilization
  42. Project Pi3Desk: Building an awesome Pi3 desktop with btrfs, USB SSD, zswap, and $30!
  43. Raspberry Pi 3 Thermal Throttling Analysis: The $8 "Moster" Heatsink
  44. Building a Robust Stone Cutting Bench
  45. Project Midnight Calm: How to quiet a MidNite Classic Charge Controller for $9
  46. 40 Days of No Casual Internet or Smartphone
  47. Building a 37V/1kWh Lithium Solar Power Toolbox for $300
  48. Proclaim MIDI to DMX Converter Programmer and User's Manual
  49. Building a Proclaim-compatible MIDI to DMX Adapter
  50. Reverse Engineering the TEC-06 Serial Protocol
  51. TEC-06 Serial Battery Tester Review & Analysis
  52. 2018 Resolutions

2017 47

  1. 2017 Reflections
  2. Solar Shed Part 17: More Insulation, and Cutting Foamboard Cleanly
  3. Building a Cheap Extended Run Tank for my Kipor/McCulloch Inverter Generator
  4. Tesla's $0.07/kWh Megachargers look entirely reasonable!
  5. Ford N Series Sediment Bowls (suck): Sealing a 9N/2N/8N Fuel System
  6. 1939 Ford 9N Repair Work: Fuel, Air, and Oil
  7. 1939 Ford 9N Repair Work: Electrical
  8. 1939 Ford 9N Repair Work: History and Teardown
  9. Harbor Freight Wind Up Flashlight/Radio Teardown, Review, and Upgrade (Model 98319)
  10. Building a Trash Hauler From Old Parts
  11. Syonyk's Super Stud-Secured Shed Shelves
  12. Briggs & Stratton Quantum 5HP Recoil Starter String Replacement (with spring rewind)
  13. An Adorable BionX 22.2V 6.6Ah Battery Teardown and 9Ah Rebuild
  14. Driving a 1927 Willys Knight
  15. DJI Mavic Pro: The Missing Handbook: QuickShot Modes and Dynamic Home Point
  16. DJI Mavic Pro: The Missing Handbook: Comprehensive List of Menu Options
  17. DJI Mavic Pro: The Missing Handbook: Wifi/Remote Only, Tap to Fly, Fixed Wing, Point of Interest, Attitude Indicator
  18. DJI Mavic Pro: The Missing Handbook: Active Track, Follow Me Mode, and Gesture Mode
  19. DJI Mavic Pro: The Missing Handbook: Waypoints
  20. DJI Mavic Pro: The Missing Handbook: Intelligent Flight Modes
  21. DJI Mavic Pro: The Missing Handbook: Basic Operations
  22. Transient Tester Software: Button Based Menus
  23. Building a 5V Transient Tester for USB Power Analysis
  24. Building Ural-compatible PVC Target Stands for about $25/ea
  25. Solar Shed Part 16: Interior & Exterior Improvements
  26. Solar Shed Part 15: Surviving the Winter (Heating)
  27. DeWalt NiCd Tool Battery Teardowns
  28. Ryobi One+ Lithium & NiCd Tool Battery Teardown
  29. DeWalt 20V Max 1.3Ah and 18V Nano Phosphate Teardown
  30. Rigid 18V Lithium Ion Tool Battery Teardowns
  31. Can you fry an egg with a DeWalt 20V Max 6.0Ah Battery?
  32. DeWalt 20V Max 6.0Ah Pack Teardown & Analysis
  33. Doing the Math: 2016 California Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Reports
  34. Ural Gear Up: Oils Change
  35. Assembling and Installing a Ural Sidecar Windshield
  36. Ural Gear Up: Cracked seat post repair and doubling up rubber supports
  37. Uraling Through the Winter
  38. I2C LCDs: Reverse Engineering the I2C Converter
  39. Fixing Fake FTDI FT232RL Adapters (SSOP-28 rework with an iron)
  40. LiteESP8266Client: AT Command library on 100 bytes of SRAM!
  41. LiteSerialLogger: Zero SRAM Serial Logging
  42. Common Arduino Library SRAM Use
  43. Building a Button Box: Technical Discussion
  44. Building a Button Box: Overview
  45. Progress vs Decline: What to expect going forward
  46. Charging a Tesla S/X at 350kW: Plausible!
  47. No Actual Post Today, Sorry.

2016 53

  1. New Years: Review and Distraction Reduction
  2. BionX 350 HT RR L Rebuild to 13.5Ah
  3. BionX 350 HT RR L Teardown
  4. BionX 48V 8.8Ah SL 350 HT XL Pack Teardown
  5. A Tale of 3 BionX Packs: Self Balancing LiMn
  6. DSO138 Scope, Acrylic Housing Assembly, and USB Power
  7. Installing the latest AT firmware on a 4Mbit flash ESP8266 (and others, too!)
  8. Replacing the Fuel Pump in a Kipor IG2000 or McCulloch FG2000 Generator
  9. Trek Transport+ Battery Teardown (with a new record negative voltage)
  10. Tesla Model S 12V Battery Analysis
  11. Solar Shed: Part 14: Backup Power
  12. Solar Shed: Part 13: Morning Panels
  13. Solar Shed: Part 12: Panel Mounts Revision 2
  14. SolPad: Number Free Nonsense
  15. Solar Shed: Part 11: Panel Mounts Revision 1
  16. HexBright Flashlight Battery Teardown and Replacement
  17. DeWalt 20V Max 3.0Ah Battery Pack Teardown & Analysis
  18. Building a $10 ESP02 based ESP8266 Arduino WiFi Shield
  19. SparkFun ESP8266 Wifi Shield: Deep Sleep, Connectivity, and Power
  20. 2014/2015/2016 SkyActiv Mazda3 Oil Capacity & Change Procedures
  21. BionX 26v 9.6Ah Teardown & 18Ah rebuild
  22. Teardown & Review of a $3 Solar Bike Light
  23. Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office
  24. Solar Shed: Part 10: Interior Work
  25. Pokémon Go, Ingress, Servers, and Social Interaction
  26. Solar Shed: Part 9: The Solar System
  27. Solar Shed: Part 8: Installing the HVAC
  28. Solar Shed: Part 7: Plywooding the Walls
  29. Solar Shed: Part 6: Foamboard Insulation
  30. Solar Shed: Part 5: Roof Insulation
  31. Solar Shed: Part 4: Wall Insulation and Window Foam
  32. Solar Shed: Part 3: Delivery
  33. Solar Shed: Part 2: Foundations
  34. Solar Shed: Part 1: Overview
  35. Video Game Review: YIMBY Barrel Composter Assembly (FeelyVR)
  36. Building Temporary Stairs with redwood
  37. Building temporary stairs with cinderblocks
  38. What happens when you order 18650s from China?
  39. Custom Mid-drive Ingress Hill Climber
  40. Custom Mid-drive Cargo Bike
  41. Rad Power Bikes - Rad Rover
  42. Rad Power Bikes - Rad Wagon Review
  43. Wheels, Tires, Tubes, and Slime
  44. Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars
  45. BionX PL350 Based Build with Pack Powered Lighting
  46. A Rant About Repairability and Proprietary Systems: Why Electric Bikes Need Rebuildable Batteries
  47. Teardown, Analysis, and Destruction of a $5 "Laser Bike Light"
  48. Electric Long Haul Trucks
  49. ZB206+ Battery Tester
  50. Trek Valencia Ride+ BionX Battery Pack Rebuild
  51. Trek Valencia Ride+ BionX Battery Pack Teardown: Part 2
  52. Trek Valencia Ride+ BionX Battery Pack Teardown: Part 1
  53. Electric Car Battery Packs and Longevity

2015 37

  1. A post-summer review of my vent fans (Seattle Summer Slicers)
  2. Cobalt Requirements for a Global Electric Vehicle Fleet
  3. My wattemeter arrived! It's crap! G.T.POWER RC 130A Watt Meter and Power Analyzer High Precision LCD 60V GT-Power
  4. My Daily Driver Bike One Year Review: Boring and Reliable
  5. My bike balls arrived!
  6. How far can you ride an electric bike on the power it takes to produce a Model S battery pack?
  7. Building a DC-DC converter to run cheap lights from pack voltage
  8. TEC-02 Ver 3.0 Semiconductor Battery Tester
  9. ZB2L3 v2.0 ZHIYU battery tester
  10. Chinese BTY AA3000 NiMH batteries vs Energizer Recharge: A Review
  11. Schwinn Tailwind Review (in 2015)
  12. Is the bike you're looking at a toy or a tool?
  13. I Am a Backsideist.
  14. Nexus 5 Bad Battery Symptoms & Replacement
  15. Rebuilding a BionX 36v 9.6AH Battery Pack - upgraded to 13.5AH
  16. First Gen Moto X (2013) screen replacement notes
  17. Bypassing the Schwinn Tailwind Battery Management System
  18. Schwinn Tailwind Service Manuals
  19. Electric Bikes for Commuting in the Greater Seattle Metro Area
  20. Nexus 4 Faulty Battery Behavior
  21. BionX 36v 9.6AH pack teardown
  22. 2011 iZip Ultra Review
  23. Tesla Model S P85D C rate calculations
  24. An open letter to Toshiba and Schwinn regarding the Tailwind Electric Bicycle
  25. Chromebook Pixel LS vs Chromebook Pixel
  26. Schwinn Tailwind Battery Pack Teardown and Analysis
  27. Koolstop Electric Bike Brake Pads: Are they any good?
  28. Notes on the Sunkko 788+ Battery Spot Welder from China
  29. "Cree 2000 Lumen Bike Light" Disassembly and Testing
  30. iZip Ultra Pack Rebuild 3/3
  31. iZip Ultra 2011 Battery Pack Rebuild 2/3 - The Parts
  32. Sunkko 788+ Welder failure and repair
  33. Overview of a Sunkko 788+ Welder
  34. iZip Ultra 2011 Battery Pack Teardown 1/3
  35. My Second Ebike: A properly good build!
  36. My first ebike: Lessons Learned
  37. House fan for vertical windows: DIY Version with 120mm fans!

2013 1

  1. Digital Lithium Li-ion NIMH Battery Capacity Tester Voltage Detector Discharger v 1.1.SP 2013/4/1