DH pulled apart a dead SKS fob at work today and brought it home to tinker with. i thought i'd share the results with anyone interested. as a side note, after he pulled the two halves apart the little red light in the corner doesn't blink anymore when you put it back together and press any of the buttons. (read: don't try this at home if you don't want to replace your fob :lol [attachmentid=2720] [attachmentid=2721]
Amazing. Thanks for sharing. I'm trying to imagine if the SKS was developed in the 50s. It'd probably be the size of a carton of cigarettes.
"portable" calculators developed in the late 60's were larger than the 7" DVD players of today. a fob in the 50's would have been closer to a CASE of cigarettes
Maybe. It reminds me of a couple of examples. In Tom Swift and his Television Detector, Tom built his friend a portable transmitter (by 1930s standards). In Back to the Future III the 1955 Doc has to replicate a chip using 1955 technology. That part had to be put on the hood. There was a 60s World's Fair where they showed a pager. It was about the size of two packs of cigarettes stuck end to end. All it did was buzz. The person had to call a service and find out who was calling. Wow.
was the LED working before he took it apart? or should I add this to my list of things not to try and fix? so far it includes pocket watches and cameras and assorted cheap electronic junk. auto tranny's on up don't pose much of a problem.
Quelle hombre. DH seems like he could have a shot at working at Toyota Central after reading "The Prius That Shook The World" seems like their kinda guy
the light did indeed work. we think it just won't go back tightly enough for the battery contacts to work right. it's normally glued together, so this one is destroyed. he had to really pry at it to get it open. we thought we'd satisfy everyone' curiosity so noone else FUBAR'ed their own FOB :lol: the "unlock" button was stuck and didn't work, which is why it was replaced. but the other stuff was fine.
hmm, could be something to think about. he only likes doing the really screwed up cars that come in- timing belts and brake lines don't do it for him. working out a design could be right up his alley, as long as he could rip things apart and put them back together and get ridiculously dirty doing so :lol:
What was "invented" in 1957 would hardly qualify as an IC, as we know it today. At most, the device contained 2 or 3 transistors. Oooooohh! :blink: Large Scale Integration didn't really begin happening until the early '70's, just when I was in tech school. I still remember all those 7400-series TTL chips that we thought were so "high tech" at the time. By "Back to the Future" time, 1985, VLSI was in full swing, and duplicating the circuitry using '50's technology would have quite a challenge. Go Doc! Wikipedia
