Kids have it good in summer: any clearing is a football field, and a thick tree branch is a ready-made pull-up bar; and if the adults have also made an effort and set up a sports ground in the yard, then every day becomes a celebration of physical education. But what remains when the season Read more…
The development of agriculture depends not only on the work of professionals, but also on the initiative of those who from childhood are fond of technology and experiments. Schoolchildren can also contribute to this cause: growing new crops on training plots, designing agricultural tools, and creating compact mechanized devices that make work on the land Read more…
An equipped ice-fishing enthusiast is easy to spot among other people by a special seat-box, which many nowadays call a “kofr” (tackle seat chest). After all, an ice fisherman without a kofr is like a tourist without a backpack, a mushroom picker without a basket, or a hunter without a game bag. That is why Read more…
After the 1990s, the flood of all kinds of previously scarce goods onto store shelves by no means cooled the imagination and enthusiasm of DIY makers. Proof of that is the “Russkiy Masterovoy” club, founded in 1992 in Chelyabinsk and uniting proactive and creative craftsmen. Over the years, the club has accumulated considerable experience in Read more…
Summer heat. Not a cloud in the sky. Without watering, the garden cannot be saved. In this case, it is good to use a unit that waters by itself. The device is an electronic relay based on transistor VT1, whose base and emitter are connected to plates of conductive material stuck into the soil 3 Read more…
What ice-fishing enthusiast doesn’t dream of a convenient, lightweight vehicle to get quickly to those prized perch holes? In one of the issues of Modelist-Konstruktor I read about N. Ibragimov’s motor iceboat design and decided to build a similar machine. I fitted an engine and a wheel from a Tourist motor scooter. During tests the Read more…
I want to share my version of making crash bars, which I installed on a Jawa motorcycle and which have been serving reliably for more than a year now. Fellow motorcyclists became interested in their design: they took measurements, the shape, and so on. So I decided to offer them to the magazine’s readers. Many Read more…
In addition to traditional flower beds on suburban plots, mobile flower gardens that can be moved or relocated when needed are becoming increasingly popular. The designs of such flower gardens can vary widely. An interesting and highly versatile option, and at the same time extremely simple to make, was proposed by the French magazine “Systeme Read more…
Everyone knows how corn and sunflowers grow. But few people can picture what harvesting them looks like. On large areas, of course, combines and other machines are used, while on small ones — say, school or experimental plots — lawn shears are still used to this day. Yet such work is very tiring and, more Read more…
The snowmobile described in this story was built by tenth-grader Sergey Sorokin from the Altai village of Ust-Kamanka. And that is no surprise. The young man has been keen on machinery since childhood — for eight years he has been attending the CDT (Center for Children’s Creativity) in the “Small-Size Machinery” club. Club leader Viktor Read more…
