a little wifi

@wificable.bsky.social

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I do silly stuff with tech You can call me Wifi Github (mostly PCBs): https://github.com/a-little-wifi/ The other place: https://twitter.com/WifiCable_

a picture of an LGA 2011-1 socket with the retention mechanism at an unusual rotated angle. it should never look like that. (the retention bracket is unscrewed and i rotated it manually lol, the socket is fine)

same slot as before but with the soldering mostly cleaned up. Still a few shorts between some pins but that shouldn't be too hard to fix

sodimm slot in the process of being soldered on, with lots of bridged pins and uneven joints

motherboard ram slot solder pads after getting all the old solder wicked off

side view of various pieces of the desoldered ram slot, showing a cross-section of the inside

Laptop motherboard with one of the memory slots desoldered

sodimm insterted into the unmounted slot at an angle, no longer held down by the retention clips

A DDR4 SODIMM memory module inserted into a DDR4 SODIMM memory slot that isn't soldered to a motherboard but just laying on my desk instead

A picture of a Dell Latitude 5491 laptop with the bottom cover removed, showing a custom PCB installed in the SSD slot which is in turn host to 2 SSDs, filling up the otherwise unused empty space in the laptop.

A red 5V wire soldered to the pins of a connector on the motherboard, plastic housing completely molten

A 2.5" hard drive duct-taped to the inside of the case of a Cisco-rebranded Wyse thin client

A screenshot of a work-in-progress DDR4 DIMM module in the KiCad PCB editor.