Babington oil burner

With most projects, they have to start somewhere. One day I hope to make a foundry for melting and casting metal, and the logical place to start was the fire. After an amount of research and parent nagging the babington oil burner build was commenced... Here's the not very well documented build log for it.

"Green" cars

With the advent of all these greenies protesting to stop being so destructive to the environment with cars and their emissions, car manufacturers have taken on different methods of propulsion, marketing them as green and no emission technology.

For one, this is just downright false, and two, the new cars are likely to have even more resources invested in them compared to the ones already on our roads.

Games

This year I've tried to put more effort into finding people with interests similar to me. From this venture, I've noticed that an ever increasing number of people are using games, and television to pass their spare time (and even list these as their interests!).

ZVS Flyback Driver

Well, on route to one of my many other projects I needed a form of ignitor, couldn't get my hands on any neon sign transformers (the three local sign places either didn't have any, or wanted $100 a piece), and MOT's were too low voltage for my needs. My attempts at winding a step up transformer also resulted in a step down transformer due to lack of wire. Here's how I managed to create a ZVS driver and not electrocute myself in the process!

Electronic Goldmine order review

Picked up my Goldmine order today, and I have to say, I'm eager to get inside. Let's have a look!