I just went on holidays and did a road trip. Because Murphy is always lurking, I was taken by surprise with runaway window wipers. No matter...

It is great to have automation in the house providing increments of comfort such as eliminating manual tasks like cleaning the floor, or...

On my way to eat my own dog food, I learned the hard way that ghost switching is kind of the default problem most people will stu...

I can say that I am pretty seasoned at fixing bicycle tires. It dates back to my childhood, where numerous times I had to fix the punctures ...

Following the post regarding the construction of this project, here is finally the first real test: Performance and handling are v...

This project may well model what an electric hovercraft could feel like to drive. At least from a noise perspective, trust me, it is a pr...

For those who remember my work back in the days with implementing an intervalometer for Nikon cameras (yes, in spite of it being rather s...

Moving along with more details, like I mentioned in the previous post, the rear camera was reused from the previous installation. This CCD b...

Introduction With the vulgarisation of miniature cameras and computing devices of all sorts, technologies that fundamentally serve the mob...

Like I had previously explained, I was able to obtain from eBay (for a minimally decent cost), just the bare vertical illuminator, which...

Biological microscopes among a few other things, are characterized by the fact that rely on transmitted light rather than reflected light, t...

In current times, there is an ever increasing separation between the consumer and physical storage media as a product: with the generali...

This simple apparatus is a particularly interesting way of demonstrating the principle behind the common household dehumidifier: Th...

The microscope came with what I believe it must have been the original illumination system: a 30 Watt / 110 Volts tungsten bulb (in this ...

I had an old Samsung Galaxy Y (GT-S5360) which the previous user didn't particularly enjoy for its performance and replaced with a fanci...

Failure is a concern that is always present in the operation of a drone. Given the continued increase in acquisition and use of these device...

On the expectation of obtaining different and better astronomical images I have taken the oportunity to build custom gear for that purpose. ...

The versatility of the Software Defined Radio doesn't seem to have boundaries. While exploring the HF bands, I tried to decode the o...

While a 22 - 1400 MHz band coverage is pretty cool (given the price of the hardware), there is still more beyond (and below) the...

After I bought my first RTL-SDR dongle (regarding which I made this post covering APT satellite (weather) image reception:  http://creat...