The rubel (other names: rebrak, pralnik) is a wooden washboard and at the same time an “iron” used in everyday life long ago. Incidentally, it would be quite handy in the field, on expeditions, or at a dacha where there is no electricity. Russian women used this tool (or rather a set consisting of the Read more…
For weekend hiking enthusiasts who prefer relaxing on the water, an unusual lightweight catamaran design published in the Hungarian magazine “Ezermester” will certainly be of interest. This is a single-seat recreational “boat” with a pedal-powered rowing drive, based on two inflatable beach mattresses. They are used without any modifications, so they fully retain their traditional Read more…
The wish to build a children’s playhouse on the garden plot for my grandchildren (I have three of them) came when I was leafing through a magazine with illustrations on the subject. But none of the published options was quite right: I wanted not just a playhouse, but a sports-and-play corner. Working in that direction, Read more…
For all their advantages, an inflatable boat of any design has the same common drawbacks: short oars, a tortoise-like pace, and poor maneuverability. We managed to get rid of all of them at once by adapting our boat “Nyrk-4” for sailing: with a sail it became both faster and more responsive. And the additional equipment Read more…
Readers of our magazine are already familiar with the best examples of technical creativity by S.P. KOROVIN, a designer from Kumertau (Bashkortostan). In “Photo Panorama” (see “Modelist-Konstruktor” No. 1’2000), his most famous designs were presented: the “Visit” aircraft, a children’s car, the seven-seat “Orbita-1500” car, and a jet ski (personal watercraft). Later, readers appreciated another Read more…
Kitchens in most of our homes are small. The set of kitchen furniture is also limited and rather monotonous, if not outright standard. But there is often so much cookware and other kitchen household equipment that it is no longer possible to place it all in cabinets and cupboards. At the same time, homemakers want Read more…
In large apartments and private houses, it is difficult in the evening and at night to walk along dark corridors or stairs and find the switch by touch to turn on the lighting. There is also an alternative — to buy autonomous “soft light” fixtures; they can be installed anywhere convenient for the owner. However, Read more…
How far can a person travel by pushing off the ground just once? If it is one step — on average less than a metre. If you build up speed and push harder, you can jump about four or five metres. So imagine our surprise when a modest, no longer young man walked into the Read more…
This name was given to a micromotorcycle built on the basis of a children’s scooter. The authors of the “Moth” are Zhenya Gavrilov, Sasha Golev, Seryozha Golubenkov, and the head of the micromobility club Boris Pavlovich Chernov. The club operates at the Young Technicians Club in the Moscow-region town of Pavlovsky Posad. The “Moth” was Read more…
Dedicated to friends of my student years. I was lucky in my youth — I joined the flow of student hiking life. On the wave of rapid growth among teachers of mountain sports hiking at our Kurgan machine-building institute, among students there also formed groups for the more accessible pedestrian “lowland” tourism. Inside these new Read more…
