Showing posts with label workshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workshop. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

A Nice Workshop (With The Logical Song)

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Sunday, July 12, 2026

How to Build a MODERN Electronics Workshop (and How Much it Might Cost) (PLEASE COMMENT)

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First, kudos to this fellow for pronouncing "solder" correctly.  The L is silent (sorry to our British readers).  He does have an ...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

A Very Nice Audio Workbench -- With Lots of Great Ideas

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We covered Ben Hase's workbench earlier this week, focusing on his findings about glue, fusible resistors, and relays.   This is a more ...
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Friday, July 3, 2026

A Really Really Complete South African Workshop

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This is really almost too much.  But I include it here because it is just an obviously impressive set of tools.  There are also many CNC mac...
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Thursday, July 2, 2026

Vintage Audio Restoration: Glue, Fusible Resistors, and Relays

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  This guy is restoring VINTAGE audio gear.  It is definitely younger than the Boatanchors we usually work on, but it is a lot older than mo...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026

The Snake Shack of the Amazon

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/science/snake-collector-mera-ecuador.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o1A.2O0_.gzrRsoBWgWvH&smid=url-shar...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Building an Electronics Work Bench (and fixing an old CNC Lathe)

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It is interesting to Watch Wes Work .  Recently I came across his YouTube channel when he described his effort to repair an old CNC machine...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

A Very Impressive Workshop from the UK

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This one is almost scary.  There is an amazing number of machines crammed into that workshop.  There is even more stuff in the drawers down ...
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Monday, April 27, 2026

Other Workshops: Homebrew Sailboats

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In the Dominican Republic I sometimes find myself wanting to take sailing lessons on Juanillo Beach.  Maybe next winter. I've also been ...
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Friday, March 20, 2026

Solar Powered Drone from South Africa

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 I've been flying a DJI 4K Mini drone here in the Dominican Republic, so I am interested in the whole drone thing.  The technology invol...
Friday, February 13, 2026

The Mahbood Radio Service Company of Hyderabad, India

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Our friend Farhan sent this today.  It is really beautiful and captures very well the magic of radio.  Thanks Farhan. and thanks too to Moha...
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Saturday, December 20, 2025

Bricoleur -- "Someone Who Fixes Stuff with Whatever he Finds Around"

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A short time ago Paul VK3HN told us about the term bricolage. It seemed to capture much of the homebrew spirit.  This morning I heard Van Ne...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Some Great Analog Pictures from MIT Building 20 and other Analog Locations

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Here is a picture of Jim Williams taken through a Tektronix oscilloscope camera.  I never used one of these things, but Dean KK4DAS did.  He...
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

California Typewriter -- Full Movie with Tom Hanks

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I think this one is a bit over the top.  They are way too interested in the old typewirters.  The artist who destroys the old machines to ma...
Friday, November 21, 2025

A Great Story about the Benefits of Repairing Old Gear -- The Bremerton Typewriter Company

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Listen to this in its audio form.  Maybe follow along with the (type?)written text.  Enjoy the pictures and the videos and -- above all -- t...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Building "Newt" for "The Lightning Code"

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This is part of our "Other Kinds of Workshops" series.  Newt was a little Arduino-R/C robot built for a movie called "The Lig...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Building a Helio in Alaska from 75 year-old Blueprints

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This video is part of our "Other Workshops" series.   I like it because in the beginning it seems to have a Piper Cub vibe that re...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Forbidden Workshop Practices -- Part 2 -- By Van Neistat

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The image I had for Part 1 was frighteningly large, so I made it smaller.   I know this is controversial (!) but I share Van's aversion ...
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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Forbidden Workshop Practices Part 1 -- By Van Neistat

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Sunday, March 16, 2025

CuriousMarc Gets an Apollo DSKY Running. FPGA AGC Computer. Rope Memory.

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I really liked this video.  So much amazing wizardry in it.  Just the FPGA Apollo AGC simulator that Mike whipped up.  Wow.  Kudos!   Thei...