Hardware Fixing my 30 y old Miele – broken pump + always pumping after short circuit Meteor 2100 (W 715) – A washing machine as old as I am, but serving way more consistently. That’s my parents old Miele washing machine. Now, after 30 years, it refused to pump…
Hardware 1,2,3: How to craft a Huge Heavy-Duty Table from standard materials in <30 min All you need is 1x EUR-palett, 2x OSB and 3x roof battens for this 2.5 m wide heavily loadable table. Material 1x EUR-pallet 2x OSB of 15 mm thickness (or 1x 30 mm)…
Hardware Baltic Sailing Journey How-to In spring ’19 I bought a small sail boat, refurbished it, learned to sail and spent half a year on the Baltic sea. This is a short summary of this project. Motivation and…
Artwork Drone RGB Light Painting While staying at a party together with friends, we took the opportunity to test out my newly build LED-iluminated Quadcopter. Before that, i figured out a way to wire all that LED stuff…
Hardware PC Power-Switch insane When your desktop PC randomly going off at work (sometimes a few seconds after pushing the button) or sometimes switch on spontaneously, you could mean, that it is an defect from motherboard or…
Hardware Aus dem Archiv: Elektro-Papierflieger Eigentlich ein einfacher Hack zwischendurch, aber das Ergebnis hatte uns selber überrascht! Ein Papierflieger, ausgestattet mit Modellbau-LiPo-Zellen und zwei kleinen Lüftern wird zum autonomen Flugobjekt. Unser Modellbauexperte st hatte in der alten WG…
Hardware Low-tech “mild coffee” with Aeropress In this post, I present an Aeropress recipe that uses a “mild coffee” arabica roast (readily ground, no espresso) without the need of a scale or thermometer. Motivation Like many, often times I…
Hardware Hardware fix for Dell “AC power adapter could not be determined” My old but good Dell Latitude E6410 notebook stopped charging and working with the original Dell AC power adapter some months ago. It was working only sporadic but in most of the cases…
