Replacing the Pebble 2 buttons with 3d printed ones
My first smartwatch was a Pebble (the Kickstarter edition!) and after that a Pebble 2 (also a Kickstarter edition) because of the heart rate monitor. I final...
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2025
Adding a battery to a bootleg Game Boy cartridge
In recent years I haven’t been tinkering with Game Boys or bootlegs as much as I used to, but sometimes I do some Googling to see if there’s anything cool ou...
Batteryless saves for GBA
Back when the original DMG was released, flash chips were prohibitively expensive to use as storage medium for video games. In order to still be able to reta...
2020
Recapping a Sega Game Gear
I’ve always been a Nintendo kid, never had a Sega console. Wait, that’s not true, I still have the Dreamcast that I bought new when they went on sale. It has...
2018
Backlighting a Game Boy Pocket with a burnt polarizer
After the good experience I had with the Japanese Game Boy games from Japan 4 You I decided to pickup some cheap Game Boy Pockets. They list a lot of items a...
Replacing the battery on a Game Boy cartridge
I hang out in /r/Gameboy/ a lot and I see that quite a few people mention J4U or japan_4_you on eBay as their resource for buying Game Boy related stuff. The...
Reflashing multi carts
Previously I had only reflashed single game cartridges, but it’s also possible to flash multi carts!They are being sold as 22-in-1 Pokemon carts, but the nam...
2017
Game Boy Advance backlight mod
It’s been quiet for a while, busy playing Breath of the Wild and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Nintendo Switch. I still follow what’s going on in the modding sc...
Flashing Game Boy cartridges
I’ve been collecting some Game Boys and games over the past year and every now and then I see a game that I’d like to have but the prices on some retro games...
2016
Pirate Game Boy Advance carts?
I love the Nintendo DS Lite for its form factor and it’s versatility. It plays DS games and GBA games and with an R4 or M3 card it can even run emulators for...
A Game Boy orange backlight and bivert mod
Last time I ordered backlights from deadpanrobot, I also got an orange (or amber) one because I thought it would look cool and give a nice retro feel to an a...
A Game Boy Backlight + Bivert mod
After backlighting a Game Boy I was really wondering how big of a difference a bivert mod would make. In pictures you see on the internet the difference is q...
Powering a Game Boy over USB
One of the cool things about the Game Boy is that it uses regular AA type batteries, which are ubiquitous. However, you might not always have (charged) AA ba...
What’s inside Game Boy battery packs?
With all the Game Boys I collected I sometimes received other Game Boy accessories, like a magnifying glass and a four player adapter. Most of all I got batt...
Game Boy backlight mod
In my last post I refurbished a Game Boy DMG and a Pocket, but I still had the backlight kit from Gameboymods.co.uk. The backlight mod can be tricky because ...
Refurbishing a Game Boy DMG
After my Nintendo DS adventure I decided to go a bit more retro and look for an original Game Boy, also referred to as the Game Boy DMG. In case you’re wonde...
Repairing a broken Nintendo DS Lite hinge
Recently I bought a few Nintendo DS Lites, just to tinker with them. I didn’t want to pay too much so I didn’t mind if something was wrong with them. I bough...
2015
Replacing the screen of an iPhone 4
A year and a half ago my girlfriend dropped her phone, of course I would fix it. I’m not going to write my experience here, just follow iFixit’s guide, that’...
Save a laptop webcam
Some time ago I received a broken laptop (HP G62 model A18ED). When I switched it on, the power LED and fans would go on, but that’s it. I hooked up an exter...
2014
Replacing the lens module of a PlayStation 3
Recently I was given a PlayStation 3 by a friend. Not a slim one, but the old school PS3 phat. He bought a new one because the one I was given wouldn’t read ...
2012
Upgrading 1st gen AppleTV to play Full HD
This morning I installed the Broadcom CrystalHD BCM70012 Mini PCIe card into my AppleTV. I had to take out the WiFi card that was in the slot, but as my home...
Hacking an old 36-78mm Canon lens into a macro lens
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