Category Archives: Projects

How to build a 350 kg squat stand

Once again I have managed to cobble together something in my garage. The whole Covid situation have caused all home-gym equipment to sell out here in Sweden. And from what I understand it is about the same everywhere. All left over equipment is either bad or ridiculously overpriced. So I decided to take matters into […]

Air Compressor rebuild part 1

In this video you will see me rebuilding an old air compressor that I got for free. It was disassembled and in a barely usable condition when I got it but in the end it turned out alright. There are still some things left to do on it so keep an eye out for part […]

The Norweld TIG 180 Part 1&2

So I’ve published a couple of more videos. In them I show how I cleaned up an old pulsed DC TIG and got it back into working order. I also talk a bit about troubleshooting, and repairing electronics while I’m at it. I still have a lot to learn and I have already invested in […]

Pid Demonstration RIG part 3: The Build Video

It has been a long time in the making but now it is finally here. The companion video to my articles in the PID regulator series. It isn’t much and there are some things I will do differently in the future but for a first video I have to say I am pleased with it. […]

PID demonstration RIG Part 2: Hardware

If you haven’t read PID Demonstration RIG part 1: Software I highly advise you to do so before continuing, otherwise it might be a bit hard to follow along. When building stuff like this it is really awesome to have a 3D printer If you can come up with an idea and model it in […]

PID demonstration RIG Part 1: Software

Introduction In the PID regulator article I mentioned that I had an upcoming project utilising a PI regulator, this isn’t it, but when I was writing that article I though to myself that there must be a simple way of demonstrating visually how the different parts of a regulator effect the system as a whole. […]

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