Chips as furniture is now a thing. It started off with a 555 footstool from Evil mad Scientist and moved on to an EPROM coffee table. now [msvm] over on the war Thunder forums has built a Nixie tube chauffeur table. It’s based on the K155, as well as as a neat bit addition, he’s included a genuine vintage chip under glass in the table.
Have some tongs, an anvil, as well as a blowtorch? Make some bottle openers out of framing nails. There’s a great deal of range right here in the shapes of the bottle openers.
[Stephen] utilized a solid specify relay he discovered on eBay to drive some Christmas lights. The SSR failed. That implied it was time to see inside of this relay looked like. The short response is, ‘a great deal of goop as well as epoxy’, however the traces look huge sufficient to support the present it’s rated for.
Imagine a part of your 3D printer breaks. That’s alright, just print another…. oh, yeah. Well, I assumption it’s time to make a bearing bracket out of wood.
The Electronica MK-54 as well as MK-61 (actually the Электроника МК-54) were extremely prominent Soviet programmable calculators. now there’s an emulator for them.
[Rue Mohr] discovered a extremely inexpensive TFT screen on an Arduino shield. The chip for the screen was an SPF5408, a chip that isn’t supported by the most typical libraries. He ultimately got it to work after emailing the seller, getting some libraries, as well as renaming as well as moving a lot of stuff. If you have one of these displays, [Rue] just saved you a lot of time.