Recent content by XodiumLabs

There is another component to my disdain for AI that I forgot to add earlier...seeing as I'm sort of known in some circles for doing a thing with SATA, AI has been responsible for project costs ballooning for me because a cheapo 128GB SSD that I got for all of $13 last year is now triple the...

Personally, I'm one of those people who run to retro tech to *escape* the woes of modern tech and what AI is currently doing to it, so on one hand I'm not really a fan of bringing it to retro tech projects. It's kinda like moving to avoid your ex and they end up just moving to where you moved to...

A very uh...decorated G4 Cube. At least the innards of one.

Well, because the Satanicube didn’t get enough hate mail I’m taking it a step further with another Cube I happened into. This, THIS will cheese some people off. i hope to have it a good bit of the way done for MARCHintosh...

Posting because hey! I made a pretty big update to the Satanicube and I thought I'd update my build post with the new stuff. Enjoy.

Well. Posting this from my Wii U. This is amazing. And here's the video once it finishes processing.

Okay! Couple things: 1. I got my hands on a Rabbit Hole RetroSATA. Not sure that I'd recommend anyone buy these cards just yet (not really a fan of how the storage is...fixed on these) but I did add some references to it as appropriate. It does work with the Seritek flasher, so I recommend...

Good call on this and I'll be giving it a try tonight. Was actually starting to look that direction because the card in my MDD seems to be a variant of these cards sold by a more reputable brand (Vantec, maybe? I need to google the part number affixed to the back) and the capacitors look to be...

Alright, update on the voltage regulators: They (the AP7361C-33ER-13) came in today, and I slapped them on one of the Sil3112s I have here. It...did not go according to plan, in a weird way. Myself and a friend double checked over everything and the voltage regulators are of the proper voltage...

Hey! So! It's been a while. I decided to change parts of the guide that looked out of place to me, made a few nips and tucks, and changed the beginning section because yeah, we're in 2025, and the landscape has changed significantly since I set out to do all this. Also with tariffs for US folks...

Hey! Long time no see. So I'm doing some research before I tackle this: I've got an original iPod from a buddy on Discord, and I was asked to diagnose it for them. Of course, this couldn't be easy, and a bunch of troubleshooting and disassembly later, I happened upon the culprit, which they...

I find Cameron Sino batteries to be of sufficient quality. Obviously nothing beats OEM but OEM doesn’t really exist anymore unless you get lucky (my touches are all on their original batteries and still get great runtime). But I’ve run third party batteries in my mini and 4G mono and they both...

I’ve noticed at least with the Quicksilvers and MDDs that while they’ll work *for the most part*, they’ll be a bit quirky here and there. Sometimes the system won’t boot from a drive sitting behind the card, sometimes a drive will just drop off for no reason whatsoever, and as Bakkus has said on...

Hey. Been a while. Made a small update because it seems as of recently these SATA cards can no longer be purchased at AliExpress, at least if you're in the US. YMMV if you're elsewhere, I've no way to check. At the same time, a small call for info: If anyone has bodged better voltage regulation...

The only damage that can really occur is if the battery swells up, other than that it's whatever to leave it in. I usually just charge my iPods every so often and give them a once over to make sure.