NES Gamepad Repair

NES Gamepad Clean & Repair Recently I’ve been fixing my ol’NES – Nintendo Entertainment System PAL, the ‘toaster’. I will write a post about it, as I still have to finish the work on it. I’ve been also looking at…

Sinclair ZX 81 Restoration

The beginning As a first post I’ll start with the very first work I’ve been doing in DIY electronics in a while (say, > 10 years), which is restoring a long forgotten ZX 81 I’ve been collecting in my museum…

First commit

Hello everyone, Fix_Metal here. I’ve been online since ~ 1999, and pretty much dealing with any hardware related things that are to do with electronics from a young age. I do IT for a living in an enterprise company, but…