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Portable Power Station

22.11.2025Devices helpers

I propose a design for a gasoline-electric unit (GEU) “Firefly”, designed for charging batteries, powering lighting lamps and other DC consumers at 12 V. I developed this unit three years ago at the request of my friend, an avid hunter and fisherman. Since then, “Firefly” has been serving reliably, lighting his taiga cabin and helping Read more…

It will go out, but not immediately

15.11.2025Devices helpers

One of the inconveniences in the design of many cars is that the interior light immediately turns off when the doors are closed. There are, of course, special devices that delay switching off the lighting for 5–15 seconds, allowing the driver to check the dashboard, the controls, and insert the ignition key. However, such solutions Read more…

SENSITIVE METAL DETECTOR

03.11.2025Devices helpers

The metal detector I designed operates on the beat frequency principle, which arises from the difference in oscillations between the reference and the tunable oscillators (typically the 5th–10th harmonic, whichever is closest in frequency). This design allows the detector’s sensitivity to reach a level where it can detect, for example, a five-kopeck coin buried 10 Read more…

HOW TO AVOID THE “FLOOD”

23.07.2025Devices helpers

Many families today live in multi-storey buildings and use household washing machines. Anyone who has ever connected such a machine (to the electrical panel and plumbing system) knows how important both of these operations are. In particular, if the drain hose is poorly connected to the apartment’s fan pipes, a leak may occur. This can Read more…

AND THE SWITCH WILL BEEP IN RESPONSE

25.06.2025Devices helpers

An audible alarm on digital microcircuits for switching on/off electronic devices with 12 V power supply. There are many devices in a car that are switched on by a key or a toggle switch. The switching on of a particular device can only be controlled by the click of a mechanical switch (which may not Read more…

THREE-PHASE – TO THE HOUSEHOLD NETWORK

18.06.2025Himself an electrician

Among the various methods of connecting three-phase asynchronous electric motors to a single-phase network, the simplest and most well-known is probably the use of a capacitor called (due to the functions it performs in this case) a phase-shifting capacitor. In this case, one has to put up with the inevitable loss of power. For an Read more…

Power plant in a backpack

02.05.2025Himself an electrician

It’s getting dark. The sun is slowly setting towards the horizon. Dusk is coming. It’s still early to go to bed, I want to read and play chess. For motorists, energy for lighting is provided by a rechargeable battery. But hikers can also use electric lighting with no less success – a pocket wind power Read more…

Bosch 12V battery recovery

25.04.2025Himself an electrician

Have you ever wondered what to do with an old screwdriver that is lying around idle because of a dead battery? I had a similar situation – a friend gave me his old Bosch with the comment: “The batteries don’t hold at all, it’s just torture.” So what do you think? I decided to breathe Read more…

Robot for painting on eggs

19.04.2025Devices helpers

Easter is just around the corner, which means it’s time to work miracles. And if you’re tired of regular paints, I’ll show you how to build a real robot artist that will paint on eggs! Meet Eggduino. This is a small but very smart machine that runs on Arduino and is controlled via Inkscape. With Read more…

YOUTH OLD GUITAR

02.08.201813.05.2018Devices helpers

Recently born, the guitar has managed to acquire its own history. At first it was a simple hybrid between a conventional housing with a wiring diagram. Then came the so-called “Board”: the whole guitar was a actually one exaggerated upper deck. “Board” has received the widest distribution in the world… and gradually disappointed many musicians.