Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Reverse engineering a remote power switch... a nifty gadget for having a "light switch" on a wall and then, typically, a lamp in a room.
Based around a surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) resonator and a small microprocessor which generate a unique 20 bit modulation signal.
More info, including LT spice here:
electronupdate.blogspot.com/2025/11/ali-express-remote-power-switch.html
Listing of the specific switch:
aliexpress.com/item/1005008624426312.html
Reverse engineering a remote power switch... a nifty gadget for having a "light switch" on a wall and then, typically, a lamp in a room.
Based around a surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) resonator and a small microprocessor which generate a unique 20 bit modulation signal.
More info, including LT spice here:
electronupdate.blogspot.com/2025/11/ali-express-remote-power-switch.html
Listing of the specific switch:
aliexpress.com/item/1005008624426312.html
![65C02: Tear down, A look at the CMOS version of the 6502 CPU
The CMOS version of the 65C02. Used on long selling 3rd version Apple //e, Appple //c and lots of single-board industrial control computers. One of the most commercially important CPU architectures in the development of the personal computer.
Patents cited on die:
http://www.google.ca/patents/US4800487
http://www.google.ca/patents/US4652992
http://www.google.ca/patents/US4876639
http://www.google.ca/patents/US4652992
more details and photos on my blog:
http://electronupdate.blogspot.ca
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Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr
Commodore Pet 2001
Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr 65C02: Tear down, A look at the CMOS version of the 6502 CPU](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qbaKfvPoNhY/mqdefault.jpg)









