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@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_
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wificable.bsky.social
did i do it right
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)
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
wificable.bsky.social
not baaddd, getting there
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
May 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
wificable.bsky.social
could be going better, but luckily this is mostly a practice run on the least interesting board
sodimm slot in the process of being soldered on, with lots of bridged pins and uneven joints
May 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
wificable.bsky.social
all cleaned up
motherboard ram slot solder pads after getting all the old solder wicked off
May 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
wificable.bsky.social
modular curved gaming ram slot 😭
side view of various pieces of the desoldered ram slot, showing a cross-section of the inside
May 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
wificable.bsky.social
gone
Laptop motherboard with one of the memory slots desoldered
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
wificable.bsky.social
it's escaping
sodimm insterted into the unmounted slot at an angle, no longer held down by the retention clips
May 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
wificable.bsky.social
portable sodimm
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 Same as previous image but showing the other side
May 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
wificable.bsky.social
Just tested and confirmed functionality of my PCIe bifurcation adapter for my Dell Latitude laptop! With this I can install 2 NVMe SSDs in the single NVMe slot the laptop provides. More info and 'instructions' here: github.com/a-little-wif...
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. Disk management program on Ubuntu 16.04 showing both SSDs being detected successfully
April 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
wificable.bsky.social
Didn't have the correct power cable 😭 (don't worry, my soldering has improved a lot since I did this)
A red 5V wire soldered to the pins of a connector on the motherboard, plastic housing completely molten 12V and ground wires soldered to another connector on the motherboard, less molten plastic this time
October 18, 2024 at 3:14 PM
wificable.bsky.social
Found this old thin client in storage with an amazing mounting system for the hard drive
A 2.5" hard drive duct-taped to the inside of the case of a Cisco-rebranded Wyse thin client
October 18, 2024 at 2:31 PM
wificable.bsky.social
One of my current projects: trying to make a DDR4 DIMM module in KiCad for some reason. No idea if it'll work but it doesn't seem *that* complicated. Would be cool if it does!
Follow progress here if you want: github.com/a-little-wif...
A screenshot of a work-in-progress DDR4 DIMM module in the KiCad PCB editor.
October 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM