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 ...

Albeit 10 years of flawless operation can be considered quite good for a home appliance, still when it finally fails, there is the brief cri...

About 6 months ago, I replaced the manual plastic pump I used to have for dispensing water from 5+ litre jugs, with what would in princi...

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...

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

Like pretty much every moving part in this microscope, the XY specimen stage mechanism also suffered from dried/sticky grease, preventing th...

I thought of giving my daughter a toy microscope, to let her know of some of the things that exist but go beyond what the eyes can see. But ...

Ever since I've switched motors and ESC's on my "primary" quadcopter, I have been running on problems keeping it reliab...

In the several weeks that followed a crash caused by an ESC failure, plenty of work have taken place (some of which documented here ). Sever...

Some days ago my father asked me to check if I could repair this single element induction stove. I disassembled the device to inspect its in...

After assembling my quadcopter, one major issue I stumbled upon was the (lack of) quality of my radio system.