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Debugging a “buggy” networked CableCARD receiver
Welcome to the last in a planned series of teardowns resulting from the mid-2024 edition of “the close-proximity lightning strike that zapped Brian’s electronics devices”, following in the footsteps of a hot tub circuit board, a three-drive NAS, two eight-port GbE switches and one five-port one, and a MoCA networking adapter…not to mention all the…
A Bluetooth receiver, an identity deceiver
In mid-October 2015, EDN ran my teardown of Logitech’s Bluetooth Audio Adapter (a receiver, to be precise) based on a CSR (now Qualcomm) BlueCore CSR8630 Single Chip Audio ROM. The CSR module covers the bulk of the bottom half of the PCB topside, with most of the top half devoted to discretes and such for…
Perceiving the insides of a wireless camera flash receiver
In a recent teardown, I disassembled and documented the insides of a Godox wireless camera flash transmitter that ended up being in much better shape than had been advertised when I’d first acquired it. I was therefore highly motivated to return it to fully functional shape afterwards, albeit not for personal-usage reasons—it supported Fujifilm cameras,…