Around the Hill

Around the Hill

  • Stay Safe, Missoula

    April 1, 2020
  • We Win

    Go Sounders! ⭐️ ⭐️

    November 10, 2019
  • The Arch

    November 3, 2019
  • Sunday Night Lights

    October 13, 2019
  • Oregon Coastin’

    August 6, 2019
  • Probably My Favorite YouTube Video

    Makes me giggle every time I see it. 🤣

    July 16, 2019
  • Pac-Pole

    July 14, 2019
  • Fixing an Original Xbox (Halo Edition!)

    On one of my recent thrifting expeditions I happened upon this original Xbox that was the super-cool halo edition in transparent green. I looked around for a power cord that I could test it with at the store but couldn’t find one. They were only asking $10 for it anyways, so I took the chance and bought it.

    Upon bringing it home and connecting it up, I soon discovered that it didn’t power on at all. After some googling around I found out that it is quite common for the capacitors to go bad on these, especially the ones that are near the power supply. So I opened it up and sure enough, the capacitors had asploded (look for the brown goop coming out the top in the picture):

    ew!

    $5 on Amazon and a week later I’ve got new capacitors! I removed the old capacitors using my desoldering pump, cleaned the area of the board and then soldered in the new ones:

    Then, the moment of truth! It powered right up:

    I’m not sure what I’ll do with this now, probably trade it at a retro expo for more Nintendo stuff 🙂

    April 23, 2019
  • Caminito del Rey

    April 14, 2019
  • Good Morning, Malaga

    April 11, 2019
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