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Summer is coming soon. There are more and more sunny days. Travel awaits everyone. And it’s just great if you have an external battery that can be charged from sunlight. You can always stay connected and charge other USB

Plants suffer from both lack of moisture and excess. To optimize watering of garden plants, there are various devices that can be successfully replaced with homemade ones.

Despite the abundance of measuring equipment, I always use a simple homemade tester made from a ballpoint pen. It allows you to instantly find out the polarity of a unit, battery, source, etc. Does not require power and is always ready to work.

Sometimes you want to treat yourself and your loved ones with fried potatoes. Make this dish instead and you'll never want potatoes any other way. The recipe is simple, but very tasty.

If your 12 volt acid battery has failed, you can replace it with a new one from an old laptop battery. Li-ion batteries in some cases have advantages such as current strength and capacity. In fact, they are used

You don't have to buy an expensive regulated power supply for your home lab. You can simply make it yourself from an existing 12-volt pulse adapter. Even 9 and 6 Volt units are suitable, the only maximum voltage is

The Wi-Fi router antenna has a circular radiation pattern and distributes its signal equally in all directions. Consequently, all radiation and listening is collected and dispersed from the entire radius. In fact, this is why it is recommended to place the router

A broken cable often occurs when repairing electronic devices. It is not always possible to quickly buy and replace it. Sometimes it’s faster to repair and restore it yourself. The matter here is not tricky, but it will require some skill.

All gardeners know that the quality of seedlings directly affects the future harvest of vegetables and the lush flowering of ornamental crops. The main indicators of the health of seedlings grown in early spring in greenhouse conditions are considered not only

Many people give up flour and most desserts in order to maintain their figure. As a result, the oven sits idle almost all the time. Try baking a milk orange cake without flour. It is very tasty and moderate in calories.

Spark plugs wear out over time. In particular, the central electrode gradually burns out, through which it is necessary to periodically adjust the gap using a feeler gauge. At first, this partially solves the problem. Using this advice,

Many people have 35mm film negatives in their home that have never been printed. They can be converted into a digital photograph using a special homemade film scanner and a free app on your phone.

To quickly and reliably solder pipes and radiators, you need a high-power soldering iron. It can be made from a microwave transformer. Such a device is capable of almost instantly heating the metal red-hot.

In order not to buy an expensive charger for discharging various batteries, you can assemble a universal charger attachment for your laptop power supply yourself. This set-top box can also perfectly serve as an adjustable power supply of 1-19 Volts.

An LED lamp consumes several times less energy compared to an incandescent lamp. And for a small glow of LEDs, only a few hundred microamps are enough. Therefore, very often you can notice the glow of an LED lamp after turning off.

18650 series batteries are one of the most common and frequently used batteries. They are used in flashlights, radios, metal detectors, etc. Radio amateurs have not ignored them and also use them wherever possible. Often

Lettuce, like many leafy vegetables, can be grown not only in the garden and in the greenhouse. Unpretentious herbs give good harvests even in a city apartment. And if you organize additional illumination of seedlings in cloudy weather in late autumn,

Everyone has noticed that the further you are from the router, the worse the wireless signal, and therefore the speed. If this problem is especially acute for you, do not rush to buy a new, more powerful modem. There are at least 5 ways to strengthen WiFi

To refine steel and protect it from corrosion, coating is performed in various ways. This can be the creation of an oxide film, sputtering, etc. Most of these methods are too technologically advanced to be repeated at home.

The remains of the profile after working with drywall are simply thrown away, since it is difficult to find practical use for them. If you haven’t gotten rid of your scraps yet, then make a hardware case out of them. They really make

For cutting thin sheet plastic, leather, cardboard and similar materials, it is convenient to use a scalpel with removable blades. If you don’t have such a tool yet, then its handle can be made from a regular anchor. All you have to do is buy a package

Those who tried to place a magnetic contact on the welding ground could appreciate its convenience, but also encountered the disadvantages of such a device. It constantly collects metal shavings, and it is also difficult to tear it off if the magnet

If you need to weld a neat Y-shaped branch of pipes, trimming their ends causes many problems. When there is no special template available, it is almost impossible to prepare the parts correctly so that everything fits together without gaps. In fact

Since carrot seeds are very small, they have to be sown rather than planted individually. As a result, the plants produce dense shoots and have to be thinned out. Thus, there is an overconsumption of seeds, and in addition, work is added on