Ricardo Gomes

Applications of randomness

  • soldering iron

    936

    Posted on December 15, 2015

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    I had been for some time looking into a new soldering iron, initially I was looking into buying a second hand Weller or similar branch, but it seems that’s what everyone aims to and I was not feeling like giving 80+ euros for a second hand no warranty oldie (not... [Read More]
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  • syma x5c

    lights change

    Posted on October 15, 2015

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    Decided to void the warranty of my small quadcopter and apply some “improvements” on it. Originally it comes with the green lights facing back and the red ones facing front I don’t know it just annoys me and sometimes I just think it’s in the inverse direction (maybe because the... [Read More]
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  • quadcopters

    Posted on October 2, 2015

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    A fascinating night yesterday at the lab. Outside from the awesome projects, 3d printing, electronic hacking and building, I managed to get t4rwin old copter as my first approach to a self built quadcopter.  [Read More]
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  • smoke extractor

    iteration 1

    Posted on September 27, 2015

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    Was in a urgent need of a smoke extractor after some bad experiences with home soldering. So it was time to pick some parts I had lying around and make something useful out of them. Inverted the original psu fan to suck the air in, added 2 smaller fans to... [Read More]
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  • laptop upgrade

    Posted on September 4, 2015

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    Took some time to update my laptop look & feel. It’s already quite old and was getting kind of unusable. A new charger and a samsung evo 850 120gb ssd was added, more ram and a not so used keyboard and battery. And since its pimping time, stickers… lots of... [Read More]
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  • raspberry pi

    with windows 10 IoT

    Posted on August 2, 2015

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    Giving a try to Windows IoT 10 for Raspberry Pi 2.  It’s a shame that the initial setup is not more “standard” and users have to rely on the IoT Microsoft tools. Graphically it looks fancy but on terms of functionality seems quite limited No visible way to code directly on... [Read More]
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