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Rubber Stamping Your Way To Custom PCBs

Many of us now outsource PCB production to board houses overseas, which offer high-quality boards with increasingly-impressive turnaround times. still likes to brew...

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A Vacuum Pick Up Tool For Not A Lot

When working with grain-of-dust surface-mount components, one of the tools which makes a huge difference is a vacuum pickup pen. Instead of trying to...

If The Blade Sees Its Shadow, It’s Another 64th of Accuracy

If you’ve bought a miter saw in the past few years, you might have noticed the LED “laser” that came with it. The goal...

Making a Pipe Crimper From Scrap

We love upcycling around these parts — taking what would be a pile of rusty scrap and turning it into something useful — and...

Frequency Counter Restoration Impeded by Kittens

We think of digital displays as something you see on relatively modern gear. But some old gear had things like nixies or numitrons to...

The Tools to Fight Against Single-Use Plastic

Imagine for a moment that you design products for a living. But you can’t design all the things, so you have to buy some...

Testing a Laser Cut Wrench VS a Forged Wrench

It is easy to not think much about common tools like screwdrivers and wrenches. But not for . The channel does a lot of...

Beautiful Inductors, Now Not Such A Lost Art

As ferrite technology has progressed into a mastery of magnetic permeability, the size of inductors has gone down to the point at which they...

Photovoltaic Cells in LTSpice

We like to build things using real parts. But we do think the more you can model using tools like LTSpice, the less time...

A Water Leak Detector That Listens Carefully

Water leaks can be pernicious things. Even just a few drips per minute happening undetected inside a wall can cause major damage if left...

Balancing a Motor with an Oscilloscope

With all things in life, one must seek to achieve balance. That may sound a little like New Age woo-woo, but if you think...

PVC Piped Transformed into Handy Tool Box

Would you believe the multi-tiered toolbox pictured here started its life as a piece of bog standard PVC pipe? It certainly wouldn’t be our...

Using a Laser Cutter to Replicate an Optical Comparator Screen

Precision instruments often contain specialized components that are essential to their function, but nearly impossible to replace if they fail. had just such...

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