So what do three students working "more than full time" on an electric formula student racing vehicle need?
If you guessed "some awesome time consuming side project" you were right.

This is how project couch was born.

So my old notebook - an HP Elitebook 840 G5 - did not start charging when I got it out to test something.

Opening it up the battery was discharged to 0% so the BMS turned off the output and the system did not have any voltage on the main supply bus.
This notebook should be able to recover from such a situation on its own but for some reason it didn't.

As part of my "home-cinema" setup I got an old Bose sourround set (Acoustimass 15 II) for free.

After setting it up as intended (the satellites connected through the subwoofer which has a built-in crossover and amplifier) and listening to it I came to the conclusion that it sounds absolutely horrible.

I recently bought a new projector - a BenQ X1300i - to watch movies or play games with friends. I already owned a Denon AVR-4306 for audio and thought it would be as simple as plugging the projector into the AVRs HDMI output.

As it turns out: Nope. Well... Sort of.

Everything started on a Saturday evening when a friend of mine told me he got 3 of these red little boxes and asked me if I'll help him to get root on them and that he'd give me one of them for free. As I recently wanted to get an HDMI capture device anyway I couldn't resist the offer.

The Annoy-o-Tron is a small little device wich I developed together with a friend to teach him the basics of electronics and microcontrollers. Why a device to annoy people? Because trolling is fun! (evil grin)