A thread for things we create, large and small, complex or trivial, to meet life's demands or for convenience. Physical things - which may not necessarily have to do with Audio A-OK.
Example; I have a bunch of camera tripods around and found it annoying that the 1/4-20 threaded based attachment mechanism is completely incompatible with any microphone clips I have. So I made an adapter, now I can use the camera tripod to hold my measurement microphone.
And the measurement microphone diameter is incompatible with any of the mic clips I happen to have...
Example; I have a bunch of camera tripods around and found it annoying that the 1/4-20 threaded based attachment mechanism is completely incompatible with any microphone clips I have. So I made an adapter, now I can use the camera tripod to hold my measurement microphone.
And the measurement microphone diameter is incompatible with any of the mic clips I happen to have...
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We have a few lavender bushes, from which we recently harvested a small pile of flowers. My wife was interested in extracting some lavender oil, so I created a small still from her pressure cooker, a few silicon hose bits and a old plastic jug. The jug has 3 meters of silicon hose in it, filled with cold water.
I packed the cooker with flowers, put in a metal spacer to keep them just above the boiling water level...
Got a full 12 oz bottle of distilled water out of it - and maybe a single Q-tips soaking worth of oil. The whole house smelled intently of lavender however, almost to overwhelm, so it all went somewhere; just not in the catch bottle (not shown) as I'd hoped.
I packed the cooker with flowers, put in a metal spacer to keep them just above the boiling water level...
Got a full 12 oz bottle of distilled water out of it - and maybe a single Q-tips soaking worth of oil. The whole house smelled intently of lavender however, almost to overwhelm, so it all went somewhere; just not in the catch bottle (not shown) as I'd hoped.
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Well, that´s a lot of essential oil!!
I told you
I bet it´s enough , when disolved in 60% grain/neutral alcohol + 40% distilled water to make a 250cc bottle of very nice Lavender perfume.
For the next time I would suggest a copper (even aluminum) consdenser coil instead of silicone or any plastic one, heat transmission is paramount.
Even a Lab type glass tube will be better than that.
Congratulations on your experiments
Last month I created this for a customer.
They had an automatic sliding gate that was no longer in use.
I brought it to my workshop, made a foundation for it and installed solar panels and a wind turbine.
Now they have a mobile sliding gate that they can place anywhere without connecting any wires.
The batteries stay fully charged most of the time just from the solar panels (I dimmensioned the panels so that the panels alone should be enough to power the gate), so the turbine often stay still until the gate starts moving.
They had an automatic sliding gate that was no longer in use.
I brought it to my workshop, made a foundation for it and installed solar panels and a wind turbine.
Now they have a mobile sliding gate that they can place anywhere without connecting any wires.
The batteries stay fully charged most of the time just from the solar panels (I dimmensioned the panels so that the panels alone should be enough to power the gate), so the turbine often stay still until the gate starts moving.
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Goodness, that is a SENIOR gate, must weigh a ton or two !!
Actually it weigh just over 5 tons.
Luckily the customer have large forklifts.
If you search amazon for a "1/4 to 5/8 microphone adapter" you should
find some adapters that will let you use a microphone mount on a tripod.
So you did absolutely nothing useful? Not even picking up one piece of trash?
This "creation" started over a year ago when someone gave us a swing set / play house because their kids had outgrown it. Once it was here examination revealed a lot of rotten wood and missing parts. I started rebuilding bit by bit, but it did not get finished last year.
About 2 weeks ago I came to realize that our youngest grandkids will outgrow this thing soon, so a full scale attack was launched. Very little of the original set remains. The swing parts, the slide, the slats for the horizontal parts of the house walls, and the black trim bits are it.
Of course this has been the hottest two week period for this area in recorded history with average afternoon temperatures in the mid 90's F. Last Friday was the most fun when the thermometer in the shade on the porch hit 101, and I managed to step on a bee, not once, but three times. Fortunately I'm not allergic to them.
It is finally done, and the grandkids are scheduled to begin destroying my creation.
About 2 weeks ago I came to realize that our youngest grandkids will outgrow this thing soon, so a full scale attack was launched. Very little of the original set remains. The swing parts, the slide, the slats for the horizontal parts of the house walls, and the black trim bits are it.
Of course this has been the hottest two week period for this area in recorded history with average afternoon temperatures in the mid 90's F. Last Friday was the most fun when the thermometer in the shade on the porch hit 101, and I managed to step on a bee, not once, but three times. Fortunately I'm not allergic to them.
It is finally done, and the grandkids are scheduled to begin destroying my creation.
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