Sorry not the TV cartoon Simpson’s. The Simpson’s I actually know, make the best electrical test instruments. The pictures below are of the Simpson 261 VOM (Voltage Ohm Milliammeter) and it measures high current too. This is what is know as an analog meter because it has a real meter movement with a needle. There is actually a long series of the Simpson 260 series of meters. They are still made today and are not...
Continue reading...The ROBOAT Project
I am toying with an idea. Toy may be appropriate but there is a lot of engineering nerdy-ness involved. That’s right down my alley. Brace yourself for the following toy hobby nerd-speak. My vision is to turn a remote control type model boat into a robotically controlled model boat. They are both remotely controlled but the robot boat can and will have a lot more interesting things it can perform when underway, or even in...
Continue reading...Hoarding
I got some de-hoarding done in the workshop. (Is there such a word?) I am motivated by the disturbing thought of compulsive hoarding illness (I hoard, but not compulsive). I don’t want to keep too much “this might be useful someday” stuff packed into my workshop. Ha! I just re-read the last line. The stock excuse is in the parenthesis. I am not going to explore the separate (illness) condition of compulsive hoarding as it is off topic...
Continue reading...Don Stewart’s Puffin
A few folks from the early days of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) ultralight aircraft beginnings may remember the “Puffin” designed by Don Stewart from Salem Ohio. A few of my friends from EAA chapter 210 worked on building this prototype. I don’t think the design was ever totally completed or flown. I happen to run across this slide today so I thought I would publish it. It was taken at the Oshkosh EAA fly-in....
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