While tearing apart some old junk, I came across a heatsink that was never used. I noticed the copper bottom, and wanted to see how much copper was actually in it, to see if it could be used for something else. Turns out, it can! Heres how you can turn that old heatsink into a great soldering iron base/cooling station.

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Here is something from way back I decided to copy and paste over here. This involves using peanut butter as a inexpensive cleaning material for plastic trim pieces.

I decided today (and yesterday) would be a good days to clean up my car. One thing I really wanted to do is get rid of the ugly wax stains and dirt in the trim of my car. The trim is textured and its sort of porous, so in the past when I was careless it would absorb wax and gunk… (more…)

I’ve been running RAID-10 in my desktop for a while, and have been quite happy with what the Intel ICH-7 RAID controller offers. However, I am no longer at home, and I am without the happiness my desktop RAID array has brought.

So I had to find a new victim. That victim, is my Macbook Pro. Being in school means I don’t have the spare change for a SSD, I decided to look for more disk performance elsewhere. This is where I started to make the most out of what I already had. (more…)