THE MACHINE-ECONOMY

AUTOMATIC-ECONOMYElectricity is steadily going up. So now even avid spenders are forced to take care of her savings, the benefit — there is a very wide selection of devices designed to save valuable kilowatt hours. Its rightful place is here and homemade machines off “extra” loads. It is gratifying that among the most interesting of them — the development receiving a “ticket to life” in the pages of “Modeller-designer” (see, for example, publications in № 4’89, 6’91, 9’92, 1’95, 7’2001 of the journal).

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WAR MACHINE “BLUE BERETS”

WAR MACHINE Military paratroopers wearing the blue beret. If combat vehicles and airborne troops also “gave” blue berets, they first would have to own a BMD (airborne combat vehicle). The revision in the mid-1960s, the concepts of military doctrine identified the need for a reorganization of the airborne troops of Russia (VDV). To combat landing needed new equipment, a significant increase in its firepower. Division needed armored vehicles that could carry out not only the transportation of troops, conducting the fight “under armor”, but the fight against enemy armored vehicles, with its manpower in the distance.

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ALL ABOUT THE MAP

ALL ABOUT the MAP“you Wrote Pankov Alexey Illarionovich, the leader of the group for karting at the House of pioneers city of Genichesk of the Kherson area. I appeal to you to help me and my kids in the construction of karts. Guys, after reading the materials about karting in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”, came up with the idea themselves to build the map. But we have faced such difficulties: where to get tires for the map? Engine “JAVA-05″? Disks for wheels?”

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AS A RULER

When the device paths across the lawn at their summer cottage or in any similar works on dernove layer it is convenient to use a wide Board stacked under the legs working. Not trampled grass, and trimming turf with a shovel runs along the edge straight as a ruler.

CHIP REPLACEMENT ROM

REPLACEMENT OF ROM CIRCUITSAs a result of scientific-technical progress increases the degree of integration of integrated circuits (MS), including working in a permanent storage device (ROM). The developers of the micro-computer it is possible to use MS’s permanent memory with a larger capacity, thereby increasing the reliability of the computer while decreasing its size and power consumption. However, Amateur radio operators (especially in remote rural areas), this progress is often not happy. The reason is simple: cutting-edge MS from them or not at all, or they are, but beyond available to the programmer.

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