Soldering is a very useful skill to have and being good at soldering takes no more than having the right tools and a bit of know how. Dave Jones is an electronic engineer with years of design experience so his EEVBlog is a good place to learn. Check out his […]
RC Tractor Guy
Every time I build an RC vehicle I end up putting together the Arduino knob example sketch to test a servo or two. This works fine except it takes quite a while to set up particularly if you need to control more than one so I decided to make a […]
Arduino Mega based 8 Servo Tester
Selecting gears strong enough to do the job you need them for is great but what if those gears are too big to fit in the space you have available? How do you get the same gear ratio from smaller gears? You use a compound gear train and Matthias Wandel […]
Understanding Compound Gear Ratios
Here is a video from Matthias Wandel where he gives a practical description of how a direct current motor works. He does this in a nice practical way by dismantling a battery drill and explaining how the different parts of the motor works. Here is my video about the cheap […]
How DC motors work
In this latest part of the New Holland W190 loading shovel build I cut a section from the body to mount the siku control 32 motor in the rear of the model. I also take a look at the steering motor and start to test that out. I have ordered […]
New Video: RC New Holland W190 Build Part 2 – ...
Something different today, here is a couple of videos about turbo jet engines. The first one is an old american instructional video which is about a complicated fighter jet engine. The second is everyone’s favourite plumber with his practical guide to making your own jet engine. This is the first […]