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Reversing Choplifter

By Quinn Dunki May 13, 2024May 19, 2024

Because it seemed like a good idea at the time. The Apple II line of computers had an amazing run, from 1977 to 1993. In

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Mockingboard 4c+

By Quinn Dunki June 20, 2021

Because Interrupts Are Hard. The Apple II was (well, still is) a computer devoid of interrupts. I think most modern software engineers probably under-appreciate the

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Johnny – CPU Board Repair

By Quinn Dunki May 27, 2020May 27, 2020

The cost of procrastination.   If you’re a regular reader of this blog, one thing you know is that I’ve been having chronic problems with

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Veronica – F18A Font

By Quinn Dunki September 9, 2019October 14, 2019

Shuffling bits for fun and profit(?)   Last time, we got the F18A physically repaired and running off Veronica’s power supply. Things seemed to be

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Veronica – F18A Baby Steps

By Quinn Dunki July 30, 2019October 14, 2019

One step back, two steps forward.   If you’ve been following this Put-An-F18A-In-Veronica drama, you know that we had some very light early successes, followed

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Veronica – Transceiver Strikes Back

By Quinn Dunki July 14, 2019October 14, 2019

THIS IS FINE.   After the incredible success of our last bit of work on Veronica’s F18A, I was very excited to get started on

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Veronica – Transceiver Repair

By Quinn Dunki June 30, 2019October 14, 2019

Do not go gentle into that good night.   Just when things were starting to go really well on the Put An F18A In Veronica

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Elliptical – Rear Subframe Replacement

By Quinn Dunki June 1, 2019January 3, 2020

Testing the limits of my desire to repair.   What’s this? Is that my elliptical machine on the operating table again? How can this be?

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Veronica – F18A Control Signals

By Quinn Dunki May 22, 2019October 14, 2019

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. With our recent success in remembering how to do address decoding, it was

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Veronica – F18A Address Decoding

By Quinn Dunki May 14, 2019October 14, 2019

Bridging The Gap   As you probably know if you’re the kind of person who follows this blog, the 6502 CPU (the 1970s chip around

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Swiveling Tripod Adapter

By Quinn Dunki April 28, 2019October 14, 2019

Making improvements to a tool we built   A while back, I built a couple of smartphone mounts for tripods, based on a design that

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Veronica – GPU Strikes Back

By Quinn Dunki April 14, 2019December 27, 2019

Time for our girl to learn some new tricks.   If you were to ask me what questions I get asked the most in my

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Johnny – More Button Repairs

By Quinn Dunki March 30, 2019December 27, 2019

Pinball machines have a lot of switches, and they fail a lot.   What’s this? Another Johnny repair article so soon? Well, like many complex

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Administrative Note – New Donation Options!

By Quinn Dunki March 28, 2019March 28, 2019

Hey everyone! Sometimes I get requests from folks who would like to support the blog and YouTube channel, but prefer not to use Patreon. I’ve

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Administrative Note – Patreon Goal!

By Quinn Dunki March 21, 2019

Hey everyone! Just a quick note to say that I’ve created my first Patreon Goal. As of this writing, I’m very close to reaching 100

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Hydraulic Cart Hinge

By Quinn Dunki March 10, 2019

Increasing the unexpected usefulness of an odd tool.   Patrons! If you’re at the $5 level or above, you’ll be seeing a three-part video series

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Johnny – Start Switch Repair

By Quinn Dunki February 26, 2019February 26, 2019

Sometimes a simple repair gets all kinds of weird.   A couple of months ago, a good friend was over and wanted to play some

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Antique Lock Repair

By Quinn Dunki February 10, 2019February 23, 2019

Bringing a little mechanical buddy back to life.   This article has an accompanying four-part video series in the Patreon feed. Sign up at the

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Mod Collage Frame

By Quinn Dunki January 26, 2019January 28, 2019

Wherein we party like it’s 1969.   A very good friend of mine has been having a rough time lately, and a couple of us

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Shower Speaker Repair

By Quinn Dunki January 12, 2019January 13, 2019

Wherein we ensure I never have to hear my own thoughts.   I’m a podcast junkie. That might be entirely literal, given that I can’t

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Workbench Organizer

By Quinn Dunki December 29, 2018December 29, 2018

Wherein we shave yaks.   This post has an exclusive companion video for Patrons. Sign up now to see it! It shows detailed construction steps

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Vertical Mill – Power Feed

By Quinn Dunki December 15, 2018

When a bolt-on kit…. isn’t.   Anyone who has messed with cars knows that “bolt-on” kits generally involve almost as much custom fabrication as having

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Universal Smartphone Mount

By Quinn Dunki December 1, 2018

All your smartphone are belong to us.   This post has an exclusive companion video, engineering drawings, and 3D model for Patrons. Sign up now

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Administrative Note – New Patron Rewards!

By Quinn Dunki November 27, 2018

Wherein I give out more cool stuff to the people who make this all happen.   Have you been on the fence about supporting me

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Cardio Rollers

By Quinn Dunki November 11, 2018January 3, 2020

Wherein we may solve this problem once and for all.   My elliptical machine has been a regular feature here, starting with upgrading the power

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Electric Steam Boiler – Electrical

By Quinn Dunki October 27, 2018June 28, 2020

Wrangling the angry pixies   This project has an exclusive Patreon video about the internals of the electrical controller. Sign up now to see it!

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Vintage Headset Conversion

By Quinn Dunki October 14, 2018

Because everything is better with bluetooth. This article has two companion videos! There’s an overview on the Blondihacks YouTube channel, and an insider look at

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Vertical Mill – Installation

By Quinn Dunki September 29, 2018

Finally we can make flat things.   The lathe is called the King of Machine Tools for very good reason. There’s arguably nothing you can’t

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Electric Steam Boiler – Base

By Quinn Dunki September 15, 2018June 28, 2020

Wherein we are reminded why dead trees suck. This article has a companion video for Patrons! Sign up now to watch it! On the fence

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Electric Steam Boiler – First Steam

By Quinn Dunki September 2, 2018June 28, 2020

    Hey Readers! This post includes the first-ever companion video on the private Blondihacks YouTube channel. To see it, pledge any amount on Patreon.

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Administrative Note – New Patron Rewards!

By Quinn Dunki August 25, 2018August 26, 2018

  Hello loyal readers! After seven-or-so years of running this blog, I decided it’s long past time to start giving my Patreon patrons more than

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Lathe – Oil Change

By Quinn Dunki August 20, 2018August 20, 2018

Everything needs a little love now and then.   We’ve been pushing the lathe pretty hard lately, including turning some things that are definitely pushing

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Electric Steam Boiler – Accessories

By Quinn Dunki July 14, 2018June 28, 2020

Wherein we get really good at sanding. Exciting times here in the Blondihacks boiler shop. As you may recall from last time, we got our

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Electric Steam Boiler – Hydrotesting

By Quinn Dunki July 13, 2018June 28, 2020

First three rows will get wet. After a marathon of brazing, it’s finally time for the big moment- hydrostatic testing. A boiler’s raison d’être is to make

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Electric Steam Boiler – Brazing

By Quinn Dunki July 9, 2018June 28, 2020

The heat is on.   After months of making parts, we’ve finally reached the point where we can start assembling this boiler. Now we have some brazing

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Electric Steam Boiler – Heads

By Quinn Dunki June 25, 2018June 28, 2020

Empowering the heads to do their jobs   Last time we roll-formed some copper stock to form the heads, and that was pretty cool. We

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Electric Steam Boiler – Rolling Heads

By Quinn Dunki June 13, 2018June 28, 2020

Getting around to making it round.   A boiler head is the “end cap” of the pressure vessel. Real steam locomotive boilers are made by

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Electric Steam Boiler – Steam Dome

By Quinn Dunki May 28, 2018June 28, 2020

Gathering steam for the coming work.   Last time we made a bunch of straightforward plumbing fittings. We have more fittings to make, however, and

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Electric Steam Boiler – Fittings

By Quinn Dunki May 5, 2018June 28, 2020

Bushings and ells and plugs, oh my!   I used to think a boiler was a big metal shell that you pressurize. That’s a good

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Renovation!

By Quinn Dunki May 1, 2018May 2, 2018

A whole new look and location for this old blog.   I know, right? It’s crazy in here all of a sudden. Well, here’s the

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Electric Steam Boiler – Legs

By Quinn Dunki April 11, 2018June 28, 2020

Supporting a big cylinder turns out to be pretty hard.   With the boiler shell basically ready to work on, it was time to finally

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State of the Blog

By Quinn Dunki April 6, 2018April 30, 2018

Big Data for a Little Blog   Hello loyal Blondihacks readers! The results from the first ever Reader Survey are in. My apologies if you didn’t

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Reader Survey!

By Quinn Dunki April 1, 2018April 30, 2018

Hey loyal Blondihacks readers! It’s hard to believe, but Blondihacks has been operating for almost seven years now. In all that time, I’ve never stopped

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Electric Steam Boiler – Shell Preparation

By Quinn Dunki March 18, 2018June 28, 2020

Getting our boiler shell ready to work on.   We demonstrated last time that D.E. Johnson’s old design for an automatic electric boiler should indeed work

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Housekeeping Note

By Quinn Dunki March 18, 2018

Hey loyal Blondihacks readers! Just a note that I’ve added a commenting policy to the site. I really appreciate everyone’s comments, and you folks that

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Electric Steam Boiler – Proof of Concept

By Quinn Dunki March 1, 2018June 28, 2020

The pressure builds in this strange new endeavor.   This new project will be a very interesting one indeed. I’ll be way outside my wheelhouse here,

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Door Hatch Restoration

By Quinn Dunki February 11, 2018

New Love For An Old Door.   Well, we had some fun with all the steam shenanigans in the shop recently, but it’s time for

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Wobbler Steam Engine – Fittings, Fit-up, and Firing!

By Quinn Dunki January 16, 2018

Did we make a steam engine or a pretty pile of scrap? Time to find out.   In the previous installments in this series, we

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Wobbler Steam Engine – Frame and flywheel

By Quinn Dunki December 20, 2017December 21, 2017

Alliterating our way to success.   So far our little Wobbler has a crankshaft, main bearing, piston, and cylinder. However, it’s currently a bucket of parts.

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Patreon Update

By Quinn Dunki December 13, 2017

Hello loyal Blondihacks readers! I recently posted my thoughts here about Patreon’s changes to their fee structure. In that, I counseled you to lower your pledges

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Wobbler Steam Engine – Piston and Cylinder

By Quinn Dunki December 6, 2017December 13, 2017

Reciprocation and Salivation   Last time, we made the crankshaft and main bearing. These are the elements that convert linear motion into rotational motion, so

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Wobbler Steam Engine – Crank and Main Bearing

By Quinn Dunki November 13, 2017November 27, 2018

Building something cool that only machine tools can do.   If you’ve been following along with my lathe series, then you now have sufficient skills

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Elliptical Repair

By Quinn Dunki October 8, 2017January 3, 2020

The cracks are starting to show.   My elliptical cardio machine has made so many appearances on this blog so far that it practically deserves

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Lathe – PM1022V Review

By Quinn Dunki September 24, 2017September 25, 2017

Thoughts on the first nine months.   It’s been nine months since the Precision Matthews PM1022V lathe was brought into my shop, so I’m starting to

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Race Car Spoiler Control

By Quinn Dunki August 13, 2017

When “compromise” just isn’t good enough.   Race car aerodynamics are a very complex thing, but there are some easy wins that can be had

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Furiosa’s Annex

By Quinn Dunki July 16, 2017

Wherein the huge workbench is determined to be insufficiently huge.   While it’s true that Furiosa’s Workbench is a beastly thing and should be plenty

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Johnny – Three Repairs

By Quinn Dunki June 25, 2017June 25, 2017

A glove, a drop target, and a matrix, oh my!   Pinball machines operate in a special realm where the normal laws of physics don’t

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Fusion 360

By Quinn Dunki May 28, 2017

The tradeoff of time spent learning tools.   This article is ostensibly about a particular piece of software, and its relationship to 3D printing and machining.

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Lathe – Brass & Aluminum Pen

By Quinn Dunki March 26, 2017January 11, 2022

New techniques, new tools, new materials, oh my!   This project builds on all the previous lathe articles in this series in order to make something

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Lathe – Scribing Tool

By Quinn Dunki March 11, 2017March 26, 2017

New materials and new techniques.   Now that we’ve learned how to grind HSS tool bits, some really nice new avenues open up to us.

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Lathe – Grinding tool bits

By Quinn Dunki February 20, 2017March 26, 2017

An easy method to get started.   High Speed Steel is wonderful stuff. With all the talk these days about carbide insert tooling, and online

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Lathe – Magic Tube

By Quinn Dunki February 4, 2017March 26, 2017

A second fun project to amaze your friends.   We’re going to build on the basic skills from the steel ring project, such as tool setup,

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Lathe – Steel Ring

By Quinn Dunki January 22, 2017March 26, 2017

An approachable first project on the lathe.   Another post so soon? It’s true, Blondihacks posts never come this quickly in sequence. We average about

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Lathe – Getting Started

By Quinn Dunki January 17, 2017March 26, 2017

From a dream to first chips   If you’re interested in making things, and particularly metal things, you’re on a road that eventually leads to machine tools.

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Furiosa’s Cat Feeder

By Quinn Dunki December 21, 2016December 21, 2016

The trick is to be smarter than the animal with a brain the size of a walnut   “This will be great,” I thought to

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Furiosa’s Workbench

By Quinn Dunki November 13, 2016

For when “incredibly strong” just isn’t good enough.   A while back, we did a fun little welding project here on on the blog that I have

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Whiskey Bar

By Quinn Dunki October 22, 2016

A simple hack for containing feline enthusiasm   A “Whiskey Bar” could be described as a thing that contains whiskey. That applies equally well to

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Bike Stool

By Quinn Dunki October 9, 2016

For all your bicycle-related scooting needs.   I was recently asked by a cyclist if it was possible to build a rolling stool that used

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Metal Bandsaw

By Quinn Dunki September 18, 2016September 18, 2016

Another project tool followed me home.   If you do a lot of metalworking, you very quickly get tired of making cuts. Your choices are,

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Digital Archeology, Part II

By Quinn Dunki September 5, 2016

Ghosts of the past, I/O errors, and big dreams.   A while back I did a Part I on digging through the old pile of

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Drill Press 101

By Quinn Dunki August 20, 2016August 23, 2016

So you wanna buy a drill press…   If you’re at all interested in machine tools, a drill press is a really great place to

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Clip Show

By Quinn Dunki August 7, 2016August 7, 2016

So many old hacks. Where are they now?   Blondihacks has been running for seven years now, and it’s been quite a ride. I have many,

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Whiskey Table

By Quinn Dunki June 4, 2016

Sometimes, you just need a place to set down your adult beverage.   My recent metalworking posts have gone over well, so I thought I’d

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Garage Door Range Fail

By Quinn Dunki May 7, 2016

Not everything you read on the internet is real.   I think the hacking community online has a bit of a File Drawer Problem. This is a

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Steel Birdhouse

By Quinn Dunki April 17, 2016April 17, 2016

Or Possibly An Artisan Solar Bird Oven   Every so often I get the urge to make something ridiculous. During a conversation with a regionally

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Veronica Down!

By Quinn Dunki April 6, 2016

For the first time ever, our girl didn’t show up for work.   Veronica has been making the rounds of makerspaces, conferences, etc lately. She

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Mailbag!

By Quinn Dunki March 12, 2016

Readers send me stuff.   Here’s a first for Blondihacks- reader mail! I’ve been doing this blog for many years, and have received a lot

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Floppy Emu

By Quinn Dunki February 28, 2016

A new entry into the Apple II solid state scene.   The Apple II retrocomputing scene has some excellent solid state storage options already, including

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Apple IIc Plus Accelerator Update

By Quinn Dunki February 8, 2016

But wait, there’s more.   Hey everyone! I wanted to say, “thank you” to all my Patreon patrons. You are the ones who make this blog

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Apple IIc Plus Accelerator Control

By Quinn Dunki January 31, 2016February 1, 2016

For once, wishing a computer was slower.   A little while ago, I went on a semi-epic (sempic?) quest to fix the beep in my

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Digital Archeology, Part I

By Quinn Dunki January 4, 2016

Digging up treasures in mom’s basement   Over the holidays, I took the rare opportunity to dig through the stockpile of childhood belongings in my

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Apple IIc Plus – Fixing the Beep

By Quinn Dunki October 11, 2015October 12, 2015

Fixing 30yo ROM bugs… for real this time.   You may recall way back when I started my Apple II ROM Tool project, that I had

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Apple II ROM Dumper – Part 2

By Quinn Dunki September 20, 2015

Attempting to close the loop on my 30yo ROM hacking efforts.   Last time, we got the Apple II ROM Dumper to the point where it

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Apple II ROM Dumper

By Quinn Dunki August 29, 2015

A side quest to explore old code.   Something I’ve been wanting to do ever since acquiring my Apple IIc Plus at KansasFest is to dig into

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TQFP-44 Breakout

By Quinn Dunki August 3, 2015

Getting access to a better world.   I have a project coming up that needs a lot of I/O and USB support. I could do

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Housekeeping Note

By Quinn Dunki July 28, 2015

Now with 100% more Twitter   Hey Blondihacks readers! It’s been a very busy summer here in Blondihacks labs. I wanted to drop everyone a quick

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Elliptifeet

By Quinn Dunki June 27, 2015January 3, 2020

Getting a cardio machine back on its feet.   Count yourselves lucky that I got the worst joke of this entire post out of the way

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Apple II Gamepad

By Quinn Dunki June 13, 2015

Wrapping up the prototype for retrogaming on the go.   A while back I started working on a gamepad for Apple II-series computers. It’s now

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PrintrBot Metal Plus – Heated Bed

By Quinn Dunki April 12, 2015April 26, 2015

Stand back- I’m going to try SCIENCE!   My PrintrBot has been chugging merrily away for me, and while it works, the preparation of the

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PrintrBot Metal Plus – Assembly

By Quinn Dunki March 29, 2015

Delicious, delicious crow.   Yep, that’s right. Despite all my preaching in this blog about how 3D printers are overrated and not ready for primetime and

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Apple II Gamepad Prototype

By Quinn Dunki March 16, 2015March 16, 2015

Taking classic gaming on the road.   Teddy Top has been proceeding nicely, and my IIc Plus is getting increasingly portable. However, there’s one key

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Teddy Top – Flash Storage

By Quinn Dunki March 7, 2015

Data on the go to go with my screen on the go.   With the basic Teddy Top now up and running with a nice

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Teddy Top – First Pass

By Quinn Dunki February 22, 2015

This idea may yet see the light of day.   A while back, I had this idea to create a thing that would turn an

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First Toothbrushversary

By Quinn Dunki February 16, 2015February 16, 2015

How far we’ve come from where we were.   It’s an auspicious occasion here at Blondihacks. You see, my Philips Sonicare Elite toothbrush died. Why

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iPad Case

By Quinn Dunki January 25, 2015

Taking a basic case to school.   Sometimes the simplest hacks are the most satisfying. I recently gifted a snazzy new iPad case to my father. That meant

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Vacuum Former

By Quinn Dunki January 12, 2015

Making something that sucks.   After my poor result from attempting to 3D print the rather large Teddy Top prototype, I thought I’d give vacuum

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Teddy Top – 3D Printing

By Quinn Dunki January 4, 2015

Sometimes a magic bullet ricochets and kills you.   Ever since beginning the Teddy Top project, I’ve had it in my head that I wanted

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SmartHome – Postmortem

By Quinn Dunki December 13, 2014

Attempting to determine why it sucks so very much.   Like many hackers and tinkerers, home automation is a subject of irrational fascination for me.

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Teddy Top – Prototype

By Quinn Dunki December 1, 2014

A tale of fourteen fails.   Sometimes a project goes so smoothly from start to finish that you’re left feeling all warm and fuzzy, and

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Apple IIc Plus – Display

By Quinn Dunki November 23, 2014

What’s new is old again.   Sometimes, an idea seems so great that you just can’t let it go, even though you should. Today’s hack

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PCB Coasters

By Quinn Dunki November 14, 2014

Upcycling my own crap for once.   This isn’t a hack per se… more like a hacklet. It’s a quickie, and thus is free for

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Johnny – Ramp Switch

By Quinn Dunki November 6, 2014

To make progress, sometimes you have to make tools.   My scores haven’t been great on Johnny lately. An outside observer might suggest that perhaps

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Apple IIc Plus – Bootstrap

By Quinn Dunki October 28, 2014November 2, 2014

We need eggs, but the chickens all died in 1992.   Last time, I gave my IIc Plus a little checkup, then proceeded to try booting

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Apple IIc Plus – Teardown

By Quinn Dunki October 20, 2014

Playing doctor with an oldie-but-goodie.   As regular readers may recall, I recently attended KansasFest for the first time. In addition to being a big

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Johnny – LED Controller

By Quinn Dunki October 13, 2014

Making Johnny smooth and suave once again.   Back when I converted Johnny over to LEDs, I mentioned that there are some downsides to putting

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Veronica, Patreon, Hack-A-Day, Oh My!

By Quinn Dunki October 6, 2014December 13, 2017

Quinn meets Hack-A-Day. Thousands dead. Film at eleven.   Let me open this post with a bit of administrative news. I’m now a Patreon Creator! For

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Apple ][ Development on OS X

By Quinn Dunki August 17, 2014August 18, 2014

A one-click build pipeline for rapid iteration on Apple ][ software.   In addition to meeting lots of amazing people, the recent KansasFest left me with a

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KansasFest 2014

By Quinn Dunki August 1, 2014August 2, 2014

Braving inhuman humidity for the love of 8 bits.   This year I got talked into attending KansasFest for the first time ever. To be

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Veronica – KansasFest!

By Quinn Dunki July 6, 2014July 6, 2014

Have 6502 Will Travel.   I wanted to let everyone know that I’ll be bringing Veronica to KansasFest this year. In addition to having the

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Workspace

By Quinn Dunki June 23, 2014June 23, 2014

A quick tour of Blondihacks World Headquarters.   I’ve had a number of requests for a look at my workspace, so I figured I’d finally

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Johnny – Dot Matrix Display

By Quinn Dunki May 9, 2014May 15, 2014

Now we’re getting serious.   This article is gonna be a long one, so grab a beverage (careful, man!), and put your feet up. I

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Headset Light Repair

By Quinn Dunki May 3, 2014

Rescuing yet another almost-great product.   One of the running themes here at Blondihacks is rescuing products from the landfill when they “barely fail”. That

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Johnny – Connector Repair

By Quinn Dunki April 26, 2014

A problem waiting to happen is no longer waiting.   I recently cleaned up and relocated the battery box on Johnny, because some previous owner

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Johnny – Battery Box Relocation

By Quinn Dunki April 19, 2014April 21, 2014

All your base are belong to us.   Every aspect of a pinball machine is a compromise between durability, cost of manufacture, serviceability, and the

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Johnny – LED Conversion

By Quinn Dunki April 13, 2014April 14, 2014

Let there be light!   An increasingly popular modification to pinball machines is to convert the lighting system to LEDs. These machines typically have 100+

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Johnny – Diagnostic Panel Repair

By Quinn Dunki April 5, 2014

Pushing Johnny’s secret buttons.   Every pinball machine from about 1980 onwards (the solid-state era) has a diagnostic control panel inside it. This is a

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Johnny – Crazy Bob’s Flasher

By Quinn Dunki March 30, 2014

Getting Crazy Bob open for business once again.   I recently diagnosed and repaired a flasher lamp on Johnny Mnemonic. It was a simple fix,

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Johnny – Cyberglove Rebuild

By Quinn Dunki March 22, 2014March 22, 2014

Somebody give this man a hand!   You just knew I was going to make that joke at some point, so we might as well get

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Johnny – Quick Fixes

By Quinn Dunki March 17, 2014March 18, 2014

From boat anchor to booting game.   When Johnny arrived at my house, he was a 325lb plywood boat anchor. He didn’t boot up at

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Johnny

By Quinn Dunki March 12, 2014March 18, 2014

A new toy to tinker with and hack on.   Today I’m starting a new series of articles here on Blondihacks. Similar to Veronica, this

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Veronica – ROM Monitor

By Quinn Dunki January 19, 2014January 27, 2014

Booting into a useful state.   A common feature of 1980s computers is that they booted into a useful state. This was one of the

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Veronica – Case Improvements

By Quinn Dunki January 17, 2014March 18, 2014

Making Veronica fit for the open road.   One of my earliest goals for Veronica was to be able to take her places. Perhaps a

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Cardio Roller Replacement

By Quinn Dunki January 13, 2014January 3, 2020

Rescuing my cardio machine from the scrap heap once again.   As I’ve often said on this blog, so many consumer products seem to have

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Veronica – Input Board

By Quinn Dunki January 2, 2014March 18, 2014

Keyboards and gamepads and ports, oh my!   With Veronica’s input systems working in prototype form, it’s time to get it all installed in the

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PCB Etching Analysis

By Quinn Dunki December 23, 2013March 18, 2014

Pushing the boundaries to see what blows up.   I can’t ever leave things well enough alone, so while working on Veronica’s input system, I decided to

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Administrative Note

By Quinn Dunki December 9, 2013December 10, 2013

Hey loyal Blondihacks readers,   I wanted to take a moment to talk about the advertising content on this site. You may have noticed that

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Veronica – Gamepads

By Quinn Dunki December 8, 2013December 8, 2013

Adventures with 40 year-old chip bugs.   It seems like every Veronica project I start is “a pretty straightforward thing that shouldn’t take too long”,

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Blondicade

By Quinn Dunki November 10, 2013

An arcade “cabinet” to hold my arcade controller.   A while back, I decided my life was missing a homemade arcade control panel. Well, it’s

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Bluetooth Arcade Stick

By Quinn Dunki November 5, 2013

A fun little afternoon project.   Recently, the fine folks over at Adafruit Industries asked me to build something with their parts and write about

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Arcade Control Panel

By Quinn Dunki October 3, 2013October 4, 2013

This is what happens when there’s nothing on TV.   I’ve been listening to a really great podcast lately called No Quarter. It’s all about

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Veronica – Keyboard

By Quinn Dunki June 22, 2013

Some Input to go with all that Output.   There are moments in a big project like this that really stand out. Those moments where

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Veronica – Round 1: Fight!

By Quinn Dunki June 15, 2013October 6, 2022

Making RAM and EEPROM play nice together.   If you had told me ahead of time how much trouble the RAM board would cause, I

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Veronica – RAM Board Redux

By Quinn Dunki June 12, 2013

Just when you thought it was safe to call yourself Turing-complete.   Veronica seemed to be humming along nicely with her new RAM, and I

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Veronica – Backplane 2

By Quinn Dunki June 2, 2013

Minor growing pains.   Veronica has developed a minor problem. She’s outgrown her backplane! When I started this project, I thought a fair bit about

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Veronica – RAM Board

By Quinn Dunki March 23, 2013March 23, 2013

Making our girl Turing-complete.   It suddenly occured to me that Veronica is missing something rather important which is needed to be called a “computer”.

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SBC Cross-Development

By Quinn Dunki March 17, 2013August 1, 2014

Cross-developing on homebrew 6502s and other single board computer projects.   Over on Veronica, things have progressed to the point of needing some fairly substantial

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Two-Layer PCB Etching

By Quinn Dunki March 12, 2013March 12, 2013

Homebrew etching of double-sided PCBs.   Etching PCBs is a topic I’ve covered quite a bit already, here and especially here. You might think I’ve

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Veronica – GPU Recap

By Quinn Dunki March 4, 2013March 4, 2013

By popular demand.   Housekeeping Note: I’ve added a new column on the left that groups Veronica posts together. If you want to follow this

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Veronica – Hello World!

By Quinn Dunki February 22, 2013March 4, 2013

Just when you thought it was safe to render.   If you recall from last time, I had Veronica’s GPU board all built, and successfully

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Veronica – VGA Board

By Quinn Dunki January 4, 2013March 4, 2013

Making Veronica’s video permanent.   Now that the video board seems to be working, it’s time to make it a real PCB so it can

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Veronica – GPU Interface

By Quinn Dunki December 19, 2012March 4, 2013

It’s been a long time coming.   It’s been quite an odyssey getting to this point. One of the tougher challenges I’ve encountered so far

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Veronica – Macro Assembly for AVR

By Quinn Dunki December 9, 2012March 4, 2013

Coding in style with open source tools.   I need to take a quick segue here to talk about the toolchain I’ve been using to

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Amplifier Salvage

By Quinn Dunki September 9, 2012

Rescuing a good product from bad customer service.   I’ve been setting up my house for wireless music throughout. The technology I chose is Apple’s

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Veronica – Friendship Is Magic

By Quinn Dunki August 20, 2012March 4, 2013

Getting the VRAM to play well with others.   The next step in getting Veronica’s VGA board up and running is setting up a way

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Veronica – VGA Dev Board

By Quinn Dunki August 5, 2012March 4, 2013

Taking stock and making plans.   Sometimes, in order to move forward, you have to take a step back. When last we met Veronica, she

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Towel Rack Improvement

By Quinn Dunki July 25, 2012

Making another product into what it should have been.   Here’s yet another case of a consumer product that is almost really nice, but falls

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Bed Frame Cushion

By Quinn Dunki July 8, 2012

A better morning for old feet.   We’re back! Thanks for everyone’s patience with BlondiHacks’ long absence. Moving to the new space has been more

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Moving

By Quinn Dunki May 20, 2012

Hey everyone! You may have noticed it has been a little quiet here lately. That’s because Blondihacks Labs has been in the long process of

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Veronica – VRAM

By Quinn Dunki April 9, 2012March 4, 2013

Video memory for our girl.   I considered subtitling this article, “adventures in breadboard noise”, since that’s what I spent most of my time dealing

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Tic Tac Timelapse

By Quinn Dunki March 28, 2012

A timelapse camera in a Tic Tac box.   Among my more questionable life choices is my regular participation (as part of The B-Team) in

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