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A software developer spent over a year transforming a Panasonic Lumix G9ii into a custom Leica M-inspired aluminum-body camera, documenting every step from CAD design to CNC machining and custom flex circuit fabrication.
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A detailed guide to building a portable 12V 110Ah LiFePO4 battery in a suitcase enclosure for camping and road trips, covering component selection, BMS configuration, USB charging quirks, and cold-weather heating solutions.
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A senior systems administrator at YooMoney shares his passion for wooden ship modeling, detailing the hundreds of hours, specialized tools, and thousands of rubles each model requires — and why he considers his handcrafted ships priceless.
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The story of saving a 1965 JEOL JEM-6A transmission electron microscope from a scrapyard fate — from discovering it on a classifieds site to transporting the 1.5-ton instrument to the Moscow Polytechnic Museum for preservation.
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From the post-war era of fixable radios and televisions to today's sealed smartphones and disposable appliances, the culture of repairing your own devices has undergone a dramatic transformation. This article traces the social, economic, and technological forces that created DIY repair culture — and then largely destroyed it.
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A hobbyist develops a Nixie tube driver module called Nixierator for his CD player project, and unexpectedly gets it featured as a time machine prop in a Japanese TV drama series.
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A custom SD card adapter that wirelessly triggers remote cameras when a trail camera detects wildlife, using RF 433MHz and Bluetooth modules miniaturized to fit inside a standard SD card form factor.
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A detailed guide on building a large decorative gas discharge vacuum tube from scratch, featuring hand-cut Cyrillic letter electrodes that glow in argon gas, using recycled fluorescent lamp glass and a titanium getter electrode.
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A complete guide to building a hardware emulator of the iconic Soviet handheld game "Nu, Pogodi!" (based on Nintendo's Game & Watch) on the Raspberry Pi Pico, covering CPU emulation of the KB1013VK1-2 microcontroller, LCD segment rendering, PIO-based sound synthesis, and DMA-driven audio.
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A creative hardware project that converts a broken Cyfral CCD-20 intercom into a fully functional GSM phone using a Raspberry Pico, SIM800L module, and salvaged lithium-ion batteries from disposable vapes.
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A detailed guide to building a home microclonal plant propagation laboratory from scratch — from laminar flow hoods and autoclaves to successfully cloning strawberries and culturing blue cheese mold.
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A comprehensive build log of a DIY CD player based on ESP32 featuring CD-TEXT support, internet radio, Bluetooth audio streaming, synchronized lyrics display, and Last.fm scrobbling — all controlled via a vintage VFD display.