Thursday, July 31, 2014

Quick Hack: A Soldering Ventilation Fan

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Here is a quick solution I put together earlier this week. The fumes from solder (more so the flux rather than lead) are not particularly he...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Can Heathkit Make a Comeback? Yes, and Here's 10 Reasons Why.

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Despite all the reasons I listed in my last blog post on why Heathkit could not successfully reenter the kit business today, I believe they ...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Can Heathkit Make a Comeback? No, and Here's 10 Reasons Why.

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Last year Heathkit announced on their website  that they would be making a return to offering kits, placed an extensive survey on their web...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Lil Squall ][ Transceiver kit

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My latest kit building project is a Lil Squall ][ from qrpme.com . This is a QRP (low power) ham radio transceiver kit that, like most of t...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Lego Curiosity Rover Kit

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Lego was my favourite toy as a kid (and my 5-year-old grandson says the same thing). I recently saw that Lego had worked with NASA to develo...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Abandoned Farmhouse Adventure now in Google Play Store

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Back in April 2012, I wrote a text adventure game  as an experiment to try out the CC65 C compiler  on the Briel Replica 1 computer  (an ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Freq-Mite Kit Assembled

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Today I received and assembled a Freq-Mite  kit. It is a tiny 1.75 inch by 1.25 inch circuit board with a PIC that measures frequency and re...