Category Archives: Anything

Unsorted stuff. Regular blog posts.

New graphics for my computer

For some reason, I need more space on my windows desktop. Especially when I edit video, draw images or create and admin webpages. My computer, with integrated i915 graphics didn’t work with second PCI video card. So I was forced … Continue reading

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Li Poli or not?

As cellular phones become more wide spread and newly designed notebook computers and other portable information devices continue to be released, batteries are now required to be “very thin” in addition to having a large capacity and being light in … Continue reading

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USB Flash drive

It WAS USB2.0 flash drive from Transcend. It was faulty from the beginning. Sometime the system freezed during work and after few of such hangings, the device is unrecognisable. As user lost documents of buying it was given to me. … Continue reading

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Night Vision Monocular… maybe

Among the stuff prepared for recycle I found some electrooptical device: Side view On one side there is objective-lens: MIR-1; 2.8/37: Front view The other side is covered with big lens: End view There is small high DC voltage source … Continue reading

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HV and High Frequency stuff

There was old stuff sales auction in some military base and our company acquired very old military radio equipments. All the stuff is the junk, but some details are interesting. Small view of all stuff High voltage, vacuum capacitors from … Continue reading

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Polishing plasma TV screen

I bought small, but useful tool. Sometimes it is called “dremel”. Small electric bore with various heads to attach. So I decided to test it and to play with my testing plasma TV. The surface of the display is “scratched” … Continue reading

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Something for Welder with TL494

No new ideas to post in this blog… To many open projects and no outcome from them… Quite cold outside, my horse is a bit wounded and waiting for small cutting and needle-working 🙂 Found old IBM notebook, installed Win98 … Continue reading

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DIY Welder

Electric arc welders are very simple devices. The old design ones 🙂 New design electric welders are quite complicated devices. But if you find in some trash such nice transformer: High power transformer from big battery charger You can connect … Continue reading

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Quartz Oscillator

I have new additions to my crystal oscillators collection. Now the collection looks like this: Quartz Crystal Clock oscillators These devices are not cheap ceramic oscillator, but real precision devices. I have one custom made crystal with paper documentation: The … Continue reading

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New House for this web page

This weblog, Lithuanian version, Fauna lovers pages and few other products are running on simple DSL line. Nobody invested big money to the server- we used usual computer trash. And now we need more power, as original celeron processor and … Continue reading

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