Archive for the ‘Do It Yourself’ Category:

2024-03-08 Some Rube Goldberg Inventions That Could Make Some Cool Projects

Mostly wood.  Short video. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1099537448068091?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e

2024-04-06 The Flexible LED Filament

This YouTube short demos a flexible LED filament and shows how to configure it for 5VDC.

2024-03-01 Innovative Dome Shaped Homes In S. Dakota

Dome shaped homes use cellular concrete 20% with 80% air, which makes it a good insulator.  In the Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota.  They founded “In Our Hands” non-profit.  Short video. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1889790898142946?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e

2024-02-21 Website for Electronics – Very Comprehensive

This very comprehensive electronics website has many projects with useful devices.  This example project is a transistor curve tracer.  Go to the index and look at the many, many links.  It seems to be at the ETH in Switzerland but some of the words are in ?Thai? https://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/Curve_Tracer_advanced.php#

2024-02-17 BJT, FET Curve Tracer

This very comprehensive website has a transistor and FET Curve tracer.  Also a simpler curve tracer for all components.  Click on box to download the schematic, etc. https://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/Curve_Tracer_advanced.php#

2024-02-16 Climate Scientist’s Victory Against Climate Deniers

Michael Mann’s lawsuit victory over a million dollars in damages. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00396-y

2024-02-11 Calculations: Ferrite Loopstick for a Crystal Set

I think this came from a crystal set made in Japan during the mid-20th century.  It has a ball on the end of the ferrite rod like the crystal sets that were shaped like a rocket and this ball was at the rocket’s nose.  The coil measures 38 to 380 microhenrys depending on the position

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2024-02-04 Add Bluetooth To A Receiver

1 min. YouTube short

2023-12-07 Halfsterisk Symbol

I had to use white on black background; it should be black on a white background, like paper.

2023-11-14 My Supercharged Joule Thief At Devopedia

He uses my SJT circuit in his web page. https://devopedia.org/joule-thief-circuit

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