Opening the Belkin Home Base

Author: Maarten Category: Electronics

Today I received a new gadget, the Belkin Home Base. It’s a wireless and wired network USB hub.

After playing around a bit with (works just fine!) I decided to open it.. why? Just because I can 🙂
Opening this things was a piece of cake, just mind that there is a Torx T7 screw in the right bottom corner. It’s hidden underneath the information label:

Here are some pictures of the board itself:


Frontside of the Home Base PCB.


Backside of the Home Base PCB.

There are two interesting headers on the board (1×6 pin and 1x2x7 pin), I will play around with them a bit later on (in fact, I already did.. I’ll just save that for a later blog post..):

To be continued..