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Remote shutter for Canon S95 from a wireless doorbell

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Are you tired of explaining to your family that they have to remain still until the camera timer triggers? on every family celebration the same history. I always wanted a remote shutter so I don’t have to rely on the camera timer, and if I can construct one for few bucks, much better!

The software CHDK adds to Canon cameras functions that are not present by default, in my case I have a Canon S95 and CHDK lets trigger the shutter when a 5V signal is detected on the USB port. Read more of this post

PS2 mod to play ROMs and backups

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A friend of mine gave me a Play Station 2 (SCPH-50004 – V9) and as I have only few games I decided to mod it so I can play ROMs and game backups. The modchips for PS2 are now very cheap (I got one for 10€) but put it in place is quite tedious as the solder points are extremely small.

Here you have some photos of the process. Read more of this post

Space Photos

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These are some of the best photos I have shoot with my cheap telescope, you can see clearly the Moon and more or less the planets Jupiter and Saturn.

The telescope is a refractor Bresser Skylux 70mm, I have used an adapter to tie the eyepiece with the camera. First I used a Sony W70 and more recently I have switched to a Canon S95. Read more of this post

The Water Cooling experience

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Navegando por la página de http://www.Overcloclers.cl encontre el artículo de una persona que habia hecho un water cooling de forma casera, y me pareció muy interesante, asi que decidi hacer uno como el suyo.

Mientras pensaba en como hacerlo se me ocurrieron varias ideas para intentar mejorar los resultados y tambien el aspecto. Read more of this post

Disco duro antiquismo 1988

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El disco duro en cuestión es del año 88 aprox. y tiene, bueno tenía 😉 20Mb jeje q tiempos aquellos en que en ese espació te entraba el OS y todos tus programas.
Ya se que es una reliquia, pero también es un estorbo y antes de tirarlo pues decidi abrirlo a ver que escondía dentro. Read more of this post