Korg TritonLE Keyboard

Posted on Friday 6 July 2007

TIA wiki user Dafrenk contributed this disassembly guide for the Korg TritonLE keyboard:

I had to take my Korg TritonLE apart because I had to clean it. Two keys didn’t work anymore and I figured that had to be some dust on the contact strip. As a great fan of this page I decided that I would take some pictures of this little project to let you guys enjoy the view.

The TritonLE (61 keys version) before disassembly.

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Chris @ 8:21 pm
Filed under: Music Devices
Silvertone ‘Stratocaster’ Guitar

Posted on Friday 29 June 2007

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Chris @ 8:04 pm
Filed under: Music Devices
Guitar Hero Controller

Posted on Friday 22 June 2007

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Chris @ 8:03 pm
Filed under: Toy Devices and Gaming Devices
Fantazein moving wand clock

Posted on Tuesday 12 June 2007

TIA wiki user D18c7db contributed this wonderful guide for the Fantazein moving wand clock. He describes its function and even created a circuit diagram for it!

Check it out after the jump.

This is a Fantazein moving wand clock, the type that creates the illusion that text floats in midair as seen in the small picture below.

View of Fantazein clock

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Chris @ 3:14 pm
Filed under: Time Devices
CompactFlash card

Posted on Thursday 7 June 2007


Special thanks to TIA wiki user Unclerichy for his or her submission of this disassembly guide.

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Chris @ 3:44 am
Filed under: Computing Devices
Will our webhost take a bow…

Posted on Thursday 7 June 2007


I would like to take a few moments to thank (and recommend) the webhost which hosts TakeItApart, HostPC.

Hosting disassembly images is quite bandwidth intensive, and HostPC’s reasonably generous bandwidth quotas allows TakeItApart to continue. Last July TakeItApart was able to survive — and remain operational — during a BBC mention and digg front-page promotion largely because of HostPC’s stable servers. It may be a bit pricier than other webhosts per gigabyte of bandwidth transfer, but they make up for it with real, reachable service people. I’ve never had a service ticket go more than twelve hours without a response, and have even spoken (via phone) with the owner when a rare outage occurred last spring.

HostPC is based near Syracuse, NY with a datacenter in Florida. They’re currently undergoing some sort of rebranding to be called “Yareo” (strange, I know), but they stress they will remain the same. Unlike large corporate hosts which have unreachable service and inconsistent uptime, it has been my experience that HostPC tries to personally serve its customers. I urge anyone looking to switch hosts or start a website to give them a try.

EDIT: It seems that for an indeterminate amount of time HostPC is offering free hosting. (100MB space/2GB bandwidth) Not huge, but a nice start for someone looking to experiment with a webhost with PHP/MySQL/Perl/Ruby on Rails.

-Chris

Chris @ 3:12 am
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