- How My Wife’s Knee Replacement Led to a Nintendo Wii Restoration Part 3: A Complete Nintendo Wii Teardown Guide
Now that I have all the necessary hardware to support the restoration project, it’s time to start tearing down the Wii. Before getting started, I spent some time researching the process and found that iFixit provides an excellent teardown guide. In this post, my aim is to build on that guide by adding… Read more: How My Wife’s Knee Replacement Led to a Nintendo Wii Restoration Part 3: A Complete Nintendo Wii Teardown Guide - How My Wife’s Knee Replacement Led to a Nintendo Wii Restoration Part 2: What’s Next for the Project
What began as an unexpected Wii restoration project, inspired by my wife’s recovery journey, is still very much a work in progress. In this second instalment of the series, I’ll be looking at the plans I have for the console, the upgrades and modifications I’m considering, and the steps I’ll take to bring… Read more: How My Wife’s Knee Replacement Led to a Nintendo Wii Restoration Part 2: What’s Next for the Project - How My Wife’s Knee Replacement Led to a Nintendo Wii Restoration
While my wife has been recovering from a total knee replacement, I’ve been looking for ways to help her regain mobility without every exercise feeling like, well, exercise. Physiotherapy is important, but there are only so many repetitions of bending and stretching your knee before enthusiasm begins to wane. I wanted to find… Read more: How My Wife’s Knee Replacement Led to a Nintendo Wii Restoration - Becoming the Owner of a Sinclair QL: A New Chapter in Retro Restoration
Every so often, a piece of vintage tech comes along that feels less like a purchase and more like a rescue mission. That’s exactly how it feels now that I’m the proud owner of a Sinclair QL, acquired for an absolute song. For a machine that once represented Sir Clive Sinclair’s bold leap… Read more: Becoming the Owner of a Sinclair QL: A New Chapter in Retro Restoration - The Day I Accidentally Sent 24 Volts Through a Speccy (and Somehow Still Won)
There are moments in retro‑computing where you feel like a triumphant engineer… and moments where you feel like the village idiot. This story contains both, in rapid succession. Last week I was refurbing a ZX Spectrum for my own use — a nice, straightforward job. Clean the board, replace the capacitors, and finish… Read more: The Day I Accidentally Sent 24 Volts Through a Speccy (and Somehow Still Won)