Hardware

1,2,3: How to craft a Huge Heavy-Duty Table from standard materials in <30 min

All you need is 1x EUR-palett, 2x OSB and 3x roof battens for this 2.5 m wide heavily loadable table. Material 1x EUR-pallet 2x OSB of 15 mm thickness (or 1x 30 mm) 3 – 4 roof battens Building Cut the palett The hardest part first: Cut the EUR-palett in half perpendicular to its longer […]

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Baltic Sailing Journey How-to

In spring ’19 I bought a small sail boat, refurbished it, learned to sail and spent half a year on the Baltic sea. This is a short summary of this project. Motivation and finding a boat I had no prior experience in sailing and never sailed any boat before. In February 2019 I watched my […]

Artwork

Drone RGB Light Painting

While staying at a party together with friends, we took the opportunity to test out my newly build LED-iluminated Quadcopter. Before that, i figured out a way to wire all that LED stuff to my drone. I drilled 4 wires (5V+,Gnd,D-in,D-out) together to connect the LED-stripe on every arm. Soldered all the wires, insolated, stripped […]

Hardware

PC Power-Switch insane

When your desktop PC randomly going off at work (sometimes a few seconds after pushing the button) or sometimes switch on spontaneously, you could mean, that it is an defect from motherboard or the power supply. You might check the motherboard for bloated capacitor and replace them. If the problem still exists after the repairing […]

Hardware

Aus dem Archiv: Elektro-Papierflieger

Eigentlich ein einfacher Hack zwischendurch, aber das Ergebnis hatte uns selber überrascht! Ein Papierflieger, ausgestattet mit Modellbau-LiPo-Zellen und zwei kleinen Lüftern wird zum autonomen Flugobjekt. Unser Modellbauexperte st hatte in der alten WG sein ganzes Know-How in den kleinen Papierflieger gesteckt. Der Testflug dauerte länger als gedacht, endete dann aber unerhofft in einem Balkon des […]

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Low-tech “mild coffee” with Aeropress

In this post, I present an Aeropress recipe that uses a “mild coffee” arabica roast (readily ground, no espresso) without the need of a scale or thermometer. Motivation Like many, often times I like to grind my coffee, use a fresh roast and engage a scale and a thermometer in the process. So all in […]

Hardware

Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined”

My old but good Dell Latitude E6410 notebook stopped charging and working with the original Dell AC power adapter some months ago. It was working only sporadic but in most of the cases the blue led of the AC power adapter went off after plugging it in. I tried an other Dell power adapter but […]

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Sodastream für 2 € selber befüllen

Das Sparpotential Ein voller Co2-Zylinder für den Sodastream oder Mitbewerber kostet 5 – 8 €. Da macht sich ein Investment in eine eigene Befüllstation, in meinem Fall 105 € (2017), schnell bezahlt. Die Befüllstation Man benötigt: Eine co2-Mutterflasche aus dem Getränkegroßhandel (z.b. 10 kg) Einen Adapter auf das Sodastream-Gewinde (z.B. von hier) Eine Waage Ein […]