Various Technical Topics

Converting Data From One Format To Another

DVD/VHS deck with cover removed. DVD/VHS deck with cover removed, tape loaded.

How to Convert PAL DVDs to NTSC, create and burn Your Own DVDs, and do other Video Conversions

How to Copy and Burn DVDs, even those with CSS encryption and copy protection, using free software and free operating systems

How to Download Videos from YouTube and convert them to XviD and DivX

How to Extract MP3 Audio from a Video File

How to Convert Audio Files from WMA or FLAC to MP3

How to Rotate Digital Camera Movies by 90° and Convert them to DVD

How to Modify a Flatbed Scanner to Scan X-Ray Films

Technical Writing

Some thoughts about writing technical material

Building And Fixing Things

Repairing a Tektronix 2445A oscilloscope

How to build your own oscilloscope probes

How to build a 50Ω RF load and power meter

Some Vaguely Steampunk Projects

Surface-mount technology (SMT) construction — the NC2030 QRP HF transceiver

Attempting to Recover Data from QuickDisk Media

Motorola DCT 2000 Set-Top Box Diagnostics

EIDE / PATA / SATA / USB / Floppy cable pinouts

Network and telecommunication cables — Cisco T1 serial cables, Cat 5 Ethernet cables, fiber, telecommunication punchdown blocks

How To Brew Your Own Beer

How To Recover A Digital Camera That Has Been Submerged In Beer

Measuring AC Power Usage

Radio topics — Ham radio, construction and repair, propagation, frequencies, etc

Metal Treatment

Construction / modification / repair references, and parts vendors

HTML and Webmaster Tools

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