I refurbished a DELL XPS 15 L502X for my parents. The laptop was running very hot and slow. I decided that in order to refurbish the laptop I would: Clean the fan and heat sink Replace the stock thermal paste Replace the Hard Drive with an SSD Replace and increase the RAM Do a clean install of Windows 10 (This was Windows 10 upgraded from Windows 7) This post will cover the first two points and a follow up post…
I designed a custom hook to hold a Dyson V8 head, in order to keep it off the floor. I used steel rulers and a calipers to work out the length, width and angle that I needed the hook to be. I filleted the edge and put a large fillet between the hook and the body. I also put two holes into the body for screws and chamfered them to make it neater. In order to check the design I…
I recently bought a new car and wanted to hard wire a dashcam into the car. From reading different reviews and looking at which dashcams insurance companies in the UK recommend (Irish companies don’t want to deal with dashcams apparently) I decided to get the Nextbase 312GW. For this project I bought: Nextbase 312GW Nextbase car camera hard wire kit Transcend 32GB Micro SD card (Some people had problems with Sandisk SD cards and this camera and this one was…
This week we mounted the new servers in the Server Racks. The main server has been named Jarvis and the NAS has been named Ultron. It’s a Skynet tradition to name Skynet machines after famous Artificial Intelligence and Computer Systems from films and TV. We racked and booted them to check them and run some tests. Ultron has 16.6TB usable space from it’s 24TB RAID 5 configuration it is a lot better than the 2TB NAS we currently have. They…
As part of my work with the University of Limerick Computer Society I work as part of the team that run our server cluster (Skynet). We provide services to other Clubs & Societies in University of Limerick as well as the University of Limerick Student’s Union. Most of the equipment in our server room in the Student’s Union is over ten years old and we needed new equipment. I started looking for funding and pricing equipment in January 2017 and…