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…
These days hobbyists are spoiled for choice: there is all manner of tools — it is hard to decide! Hand-powered and electric alike… I bought myself a handheld wood router (model IE-5003). Overall it is a decent machine: a wide range of operations, easy to handle, acceptable specs, spindle speeds up to 30,000 rpm, power Read more…
How a snowmobile (motornart) differs from a motorcycle is clear to anyone familiar with these vehicles: mainly, the former is tracked and intended for travel on snow, while the latter is wheeled and for ground travel. In terms of comfort they are alike — both are open, although motorcycles are used mostly in warm weather Read more…
The proposed homemade compressor is intended for household use. With its help, you can quickly and efficiently carry out painting work or inflate a car tire. The compressor consists of an electric motor and a pump attachment driven by it. The attachment is mounted on a fastening plate and installed on three studs. The pump Read more…
