10 FEBRUARY 2020
When we started our AB Electronics UK ecommerce business eight years ago we found that we had the problem of generating a small amount of waste / rubbish every month from our PCB assembly.
We had never had to deal with...
22 JANUARY 2020
I thought I would write a short post about the importance of checking that your computer data backups are working correctly and if you experience a drive or computer failure only to find your backup system did not work!
This...
15 JANUARY 2020
Last week my 55 inch Sony Bravia KD 55XE9005 LED HDR 4K Ultra HD Smart Android TV suffered an unfortunate accident with a friend who was playing Richie's Plank Experience on my Oculus Rift. While playing one of the bonus...
13 JANUARY 2020
Earlier this month I watched a video by Dave Jones EEVBlog regarding cryptocurrency youtube.com/watch?v=wzxdVsp5QSw and found the new LBRY video hosted system very interesting and I decided to have a mirror of my YouTube...
30 DECEMBER 2019
For the past few years I have been collecting vintage photographs, slides and postcards of my hometown of Swanage which is on the South Coast of England.
My interest in historic photos started with our tourism website,...
16 DECEMBER 2019
Last week my Oculus Rift software auto updated to a new version 12 release and straight away I found that all my games were unplayable due to frame dropping and stuttering problems and also motion tracking issues when on...
03 DECEMBER 2019
In the black Friday sale at Amazon we purchased an Amazon Echo Input which is a small voice-controlled device that requires an external speaker and uses the Amazon Alexa voice command service.
As this is the second Amazon...
29 NOVEMBER 2019
Since launching our AB Electronics UK shop in 2012 we have expanded from our first Raspberry Pi analogue to digital converter to over 40 custom boards and accessories we sell online at www.abelectronics.co.uk/.
This...
21 NOVEMBER 2019
We use 12 Volt sealed lead acid batteries (SLA) for many different uses from shed lighting to running radios and other 12V equipment which needs a portable power supply.
To check the charge status of the batteries we usually...
09 NOVEMBER 2019
I decided to write this post after spending several hours trying to change the login email address I use on over 50 websites and services to use a different address.
I am planning to stop using an old Google @gmail.com...
24 OCTOBER 2019
In 1996 we started a local tourism website called Virtual Swanage which over time grew to have over two thousand pages of local photos, events, business listings, local attractions and much more.
I posted about the twenty...
09 OCTOBER 2019
At the start of September we setup the free trial version of Smarterstats for our Virtual Swanage website to compare the visitor statistics against Google Analytics which we have been using for several years to view visitor...
04 OCTOBER 2019
This is a very text heavy post but I thought I would share our efforts to save on our energy usage in our home.
With the constantly rising costs of energy we have always tried to use as little electricity and gas as possible...
02 OCTOBER 2019
We have an Aim-TTi TF930 3GHz Frequency Counter on our test equipment shelf and this uses an external plastic plugin power brick to power the frequency counter.
After cutting the plastic case from the power supply we found...
02 OCTOBER 2019
In our loft workshop we have many electrical hand tools and screwdrivers which we use often, and these have all been held on the wall using plastic pipe clips and magnetic tool holders.
The magnetic tool holder did not...
25 SEPTEMBER 2019
After trying to repair the Oculus Rift cable earlier this month we decided it was time to replace our old stereo microscope with a new trinocular stereo microscope so we can take better photos of the things we are working...