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Rip It Apart
Personal blog · ripitapart.com · on HN as ginbot86hardware
Rip It Apart is a personal blog at ripitapart.com about hardware. Since 2018, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Running Windows 95 on a disposable vape”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Rip It Apart, Jason's electronics blog, for hands-on hardware hacking posts, such as driving an LCD from a calculator, eMMC adventures, and gaining access to Windows on oscilloscopes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A site dedicated to my hacks, mods, makes and occasional ramblings.
Most-linked posts?
- Running Windows 95 on a disposable vape4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-05-01
- Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-19
- Gaining Access to the Windows CE Desktop on the Keysight DSOX1102G Oscilloscope3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-22
- Building my own 64GB memory card with a $6 eMMC chip (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-28
What Hacker News says?
Here someone figured out how to drive the LCD screen from one. https://ripitapart.com/2013/03/02/making-use-of-an-old-ti-83...
Comment linking /2013/03/02/making-use-of-an-old-ti-83-plus-lcd-screen/
on “This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator”Submitted Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020) as a story · 274 points
HN discussionThey are banned here in Australia, unfortunately it has created a huge black market for these things. Almost every neighborhood now has a cigarette store that also sells gifts and US chocolates that are basically just fronts for this stuff. Black market vapes and cigarettes. Even the police in many parts here don't really enforce this stuff. What I find even crazier than the batteries being disposed is that some of…
Comment linking /category/disposable-vape-hacks/
on “Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]”Submitted Building my own 64GB memory card with a $6 eMMC chip (2016) as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI also appreciate your responses! I especially appreciate the correction about the Z80's power supply requirements. > What's the energy efficiency difference between generating electricity with a hand crank vs. a nuclear reactor? A hand crank is about 95% efficient. An electromechanical generator is about 90% efficient. Your muscles are about 25% efficient. Putting it together, the energy efficiency of generating el…
Comment linking /2024/04/20/dispo-adventures-episode-1-reverse-engineering-and-running-windows-95-on-a-disposable-vape-with-a-colour-lcd-screen/
on “Collapse OS”Submitted Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMight take a while to get soldering skills good enough to handle 0.5mm BGA: https://ripitapart.com/2016/10/28/emmc-adventures-episode-1-...
Comment linking /2016/10/28/emmc-adventures-episode-1-building-my-own-64gb-memory-card-with-a-6-emmc-chip/
on “Chiptunes on an ATtiny4 and the 3 Cent Micro”Submitted Running Windows 95 on a disposable vape as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt has unfortunately. It's used in some of Keysight's oscilloscopes. Even the new ones. And it's not even a new version https://ripitapart.com/2018/10/15/gaining-access-to-the-wind... Some of the later ones run Linux apparently but I've never seen one. All the Rigol ones are Linux based.
Comment linking /2018/10/15/gaining-access-to-the-windows-ce-desktop-and-doom-on-the-keysight-dsox1102g-oscilloscope/
on “Windows on Raspberry”Submitted Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse-engineering and "running Windows 95" on a vape with a colour LCD screen as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gaining Access to the Windows CE Desktop on the Keysight DSOX1102G Oscilloscope as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse-engineering and "running Windows 95" on a vape with a LCD screen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reverse-Engineering and Analysis of SanDisk High Endurance MicroSD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recovering the SIM card PIN from a ZTE cellular home phone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resurrecting a Corrosion Damaged Dead MacBook Pro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building my own custom adapter to use cheap eMMC-based SSD boards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking into the Windows CE desktop (and Doom) on my Keysight oscilloscope as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding External PCIe Support on Atomic Pi SBC as a story · 1 points
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