<p>open hardware is very interesting i think. usually very expensive, but also surprisingly often best-in-class if you can forgive the limitations of operating at such a small scale.</p>

<p>i am once again thinking that they should let me have all crowd supply products for free</p>

<p>Hmm. Initial reports are negative. Still a problem. Maybe a bad soldering job so I&#39;ll need to double check. Not giving up that easy.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Cdespinosa" class="u-url mention">@<span>Cdespinosa</span></a></span> see, Tim Walz would have a soldering iron handy, and would rewire the thing on stage while talking through a bullhorn and making it an educational experience for 5,000</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> good work. My son replaces the capacitors in his old vpets (tamagotchi, digimon, etc) from the 90’s - bringing old toys back to life!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> There are those who take joy in replacing a capacitor and fixing their own TV and those who are glad to have the excuse to buy a new TV. Often they live in the same household.</p>

<p>Possibly related: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacito</span><span class="invisible">r_plague</span></a></p>

<p>The replacement can be had for under $0.25. Repair requires a soldering iron, but not too difficult.</p>

<p>Welp, a third time replacing yet another bad capacitor in the TV. Now awaiting kids&#39; report to see if it actually fixed the problem again. The TV powered back on and is showing a picture after my repair so that&#39;s better than nothing. </p><p>For anyone wondering how one actually knows to replace a bad cap, the TV would predictably power-cycle and reboot itself whenever a video went to an all-white screen. </p><p>Open it up, look closely, and you&#39;ll see a tented cap.</p>