Collaborate Disseminate
Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the person behind the ProjectsInFlight channel on YouTube, you certainly do. In a recent video it’s explained how he …read more Continue reading Saving an Electron Microscope from the Trash
When you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s especially true of high-precision gear like oscilloscopes from the time …read more Continue reading Close Shave for an Old Oscilloscope Saved with a Sticky Note
For those of us devoted to keeping an older vehicle on the road, the struggle is real. We know that at some point, a part will go bad and we’ll …read more Continue reading Simple PCB Repairs Keep Old Vehicle Out of the Crusher
[DTSS_Smudge] correctly intuits that if you are interested in an old Heathkit signal generator, you probably already know how to solder. So, in a recent video, he focused on the …read more Continue reading Heathkit Signal Generator Gets an Update
What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer under one of the awful colors offered by vapor discharge lamps, like the pink or …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: The Case of the Curiously Colored Streetlights
While the death of Apple’s Lightning Connector can’t come soon enough, swapping the ports on their products as “category-defining innovations” seems a bit of a stretch. [Ken Pillonel] has designed …read more Continue reading Add USB-C to Your AirPods the Easy Way
There’s a wild new feature making repair jobs easier (not to mention less messy) and iFixit covers it in their roundup of the iPhone 16’s repairability: electrically-released adhesive. Here’s how …read more Continue reading Hands-on With New iPhone’s Electrically-Released Adhesive
My sister is a beekeeper, or maybe a meta-beekeper. She ends up making more money by breeding and selling new queen bees to other beekeepers than she does by selling …read more Continue reading Fun and Failure
In today’s value-engineered world, getting a decade of service out of a cordless tool is pretty impressive. By that point you’ve probably gotten your original investment back, and if the …read more Continue reading Unusual Tool Gets an Unusual Repair
Fluke meters have been around for a long, long time. Heck, we’ve got a Fluke 73 that we bought back in 1985 that’s still a daily driver. But just because …read more Continue reading Fixing a Busted Fluke While Fighting a Wonky Schematic