Showing posts with label workshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workshop. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Other Workshops: Making The World's Smallest Motor

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When I watched this very cool video, I thought of all those hams who complain so bitterly about how difficult it is to wind a toriod on a T-...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Challenge -- Soldering!

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The DCR challenge is going well, and we have several builders making good progress.  We noticed that some first-time builders are having a l...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Other Kinds of Workshops -- Making a Clock with a Lathe

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Somehow, this video fits well with the SolderSmoke theme.  It may be that Uri cheerfully acknowledges that the lathe can kill you (the same ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Importance to Bell Labs of Lunch or Breakfast with Harry Nyquist -- "The Communicator" -- Bimonthly Publication of the Surrey (British Columbia) ARC.

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This is a good sample (!) of the great content to be found in "The Communicator." This is the bimonthly publication of the Surrey ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

A Solar Energy Workshop in Hawaii

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I include this because I am interested in workshops and solar power.   Thanks to Bill AH6FC for sending this.  Mahlo Bill!  
Thursday, October 17, 2024

How to Organize a Small Shack

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A YouTube comment from Paul VK3HN sent me back to "The Spirited Man" YouTube channel , and one of the first things I found was thi...
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Monday, August 19, 2024

Harry Caul had THE KNACK -- Movie Review -- "The Conversation" --1974 by Francis Ford Coppola (Harry Caul based on W3VCG)

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  I give it FIVE Soldering Irons!  I found it on Amazon Prime.  The workshop scenes remind me of ham workshops.  The movie character Harry C...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

ANOTHER Great Workshop

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As I get ready to build the SolderSmoke Shack South, the Radio Gods (well at least YouTube) keep sending me these workshop videos.  Today...
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Monday, June 24, 2024

Some Really Amazing Test Gear

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Wow. Really great test gear, and an amazing parts collection.   This guy even gets a "nice workshop" comment from Mr. Carlson.   P...
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Saturday, February 24, 2024

Innovations and Inventions in Garages and Basements

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The Hewlett-Packard garage There is a lot of inspirational stuff in this blog post, especially for those of us who work in home workshops, o...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Pine Boards, Analog VFOs, and Homebrew BITX Transceivers -- AG5VG's Magnificent Creations

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Click in image for a better view This is amazingly cool.  WE ARE NOT ALONE!  There are others out there breaking the tyranny of the Si5351, ...
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