Fix all the things!

Sometimes everything is not working like they should.

Fix the washing machine

My washing machine (Indesit WIDL 126 ) decided to stop working (all the lights set to blink). So thanks to some French site, I knew I could fix it.

1. cut the water, unplug everything.
2. move the heavy fucker so you can open its back
3. extract the board
4. replace blown capacitor (big brown one on the ugly pic)
5. put it back all together
6. clean your clothes

Hail the many capacitors kit!

## Fix the iStick Eleaf

Chinese lithium batteries tend to die quickly. Fortunately I had a spare one for the iStick from another one I bought just to bry open, and destroy it trying to find some JTAG pinouts, and failing.

This was quite easy. But here’s more french links for documentation.

I hope this one doesnt blow up in my hands.

Fix the DLink

Update : Still, THE RASPBERRY PI 2 WILL COMPLAIN THAT IT GETS NOT ENOUGH JUICE. Indeed the ‘fast charge’ USB ports are only rated at 1.2A, when the Pi2 requires 1.8A.

I wanted to play with my new Raspberry Pi 2, but it so happened that the “verified” D-Link 7 Port USB Hub DUB-H7 is not what it says it is.

The bastard will only output some extra power in the “Fast Charge” port IF the hub isn’t used on a PC. Unless you install some crazy exe/driver from the website. WTF

Anytime the hungry RPi2 was trying to initialize the hub, for example at boot time, the fucking hub would just switch to puny output power, and the rPi2 would reboot.

Fortunately some other French dude described how to force open the power gates, with just 2 tiny bridges added.

I’ve shamelessly copied his pic for backup purposes.