3DS Hardmod and Wii Controller Dissassembly

Hi, Andrey over here.

One of my flatmate's Wii Controllers were in quite bad condition after travelling across Asia for a while....

So I took them apart, desoldered the battery contacts and submerged everything but the PCB in soapy water (to remove gunk and alkaline corrotion). Soon I will reassemble them and hopefully there won't be explosions (hehehe).

Also, a couple of weeks ago, I modified my "New 3DS XL" by soldering four wires to the NAND chip test points. The mod allows to copy the firmware directly from the NAND chip by using an SD card reader. With the firmware backed up, many doors for homebrew open up   ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Just One More Resistor Begins...

Here we go!

So, why the blog?
Well, to display some of the insanely cool projects I have managed to throw together (mainly with others) after only a year of studying Electrical and Electronic engineering (time period growing as we go on).

For example, after only 6 months of electronic goodness myself and three others attempted to make a radio telescope as an entry into a 24 hour hackathon. I actually wrote a post somewhere else (here). Surprisingly we did not do too badly, we were not able to get a high enough angular resolution and the weather on the day prevented us from taking it outside and pointing it at the largest object we could find (the sun).

Other projects included an antweight robot wars entry, and a model rocket accelerometer payload.

Coming in the near future are more robots (including fun with servos), and possibly an internet connected coffee machine...