Category: Story Time

Two years ago, I blogged about an issue with my Raspberry Pi 3 A+. I accidentally shorted out the 3.3V voltage rail with a GPIO pin which was probably set to put out 5V and since then, the Raspberry Pi stopped working properly. In my last post I wrote, that I was going to purchase the corresponding voltage regular IC and attempt to repair the Raspberry Pi on my own.

Unfortunately, this story happened two years ago and I was not updating my web site for a very long time. Thanks to a visitor called Christoph who wrote me an email asking for a status update on my repair, I now decided to give you all an update on my repair.

As a true maker, what do you need? I think that is everyones own perspective, but for me this is at least a 3D-printer. Preferably a printer, that was built from scratch. Some basic electronic tools such as a soldering station, a huge pile of wires, pliers and of course some electrical components and modules. While you can do a lot with a 3D-printer not everything is satisfying to do with it. For example creating a small box takes hours or even days – depending on its size. That’s where the dream of a laser cutter comes into play.

If you have visited my page in the past you may notice, that from today on, there is something different. The page has a new look and most of the old content is gone. It was a hard step for me to take removing blog posts starting from 2004 but it was necessary.

It was mostly outdated and kinda “unimportant” for someone else than me. Also the blog software (FLog) was great but wasn’t updated since probably 10 years. Of course I did some manual updates, but I do not want to have too much effort with my site.

This is why I switched to WordPress and a new site topic: Being a maker.

Oh, and also the site language changed completely to English to have a bigger (possible) audience.

I hope, you enjoy the new content to come.