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make cheap homemade spare parts for bosch

How to make cheap nylon line replacement for Bosch brushcutters

This is not in itself a repair, but a little hack to save us money. Bosch spare parts are tremendously expensive and in this article I will show you how to use nylon line from other brands in Bosch electric brush cutters.

I have an electric brush cutter Bosch AFS23-37 1000 W of power. It’s going great. I am very happy for a non-intensive use like the one I need. It is an electric brush cutter, not a battery one, it has to be connected to electricity to work.

However, the brand’s official nylon spare parts are very expensive, rather very expensive and is manufactured so that you end up consuming its spare parts. In this case, the nylon thread comes with a kind of bolt in the center that prevents it from escaping.

LEGO Boost ideas to get the most out of it

Ideas for your LEGO Boost

Many people only build the 5 assemblies that come in the instructions of the officer kit and that we have been seeing in the blog and it remains blocked without knowing what else to do.

But the fun is to innovate and use the pieces, especially the mobiles to create your own assemblies. So I’m going to let you how to get ideas of what you can do with your LEGO Boost at various levels, from assemblies for children, to integrations with other hardware for the more technical.

To give the LEGO Boost even more boost, I leave you a series of tips.

Jenga Rules

Jenga Rules (How to Play Jenga)

Jenga It is played with 54 wooden blocks, the length of which is 3 times their width. The blocks are stacked forming a tower. Each floor has three blocks, and the top floor is placed perpendicular. Therefore at the end there are 18 floors. But this looks much better with an image.

lego boost with problems connecting bluetooth with tablet

LEGO Boost Bluetooth pairing

The main problem I have encountered at the moment LEGO Boost robot is that depending on the device (tablet or smartphone) it is very difficult for Bluetooth to pair. In my case it works well with a BQ Aquaris X Pro, and badly with the Huawei T5 and with a Samsung A7.

As we advance Lego assembly screens, there comes a time when we have to test the robot and to be able to program with the blocks it has to be connected via Blueetooth. At first It should be as easy as pressing the green button on the Move Hub which is the main block of the Robot.

Voice control on PC and RaspberryPi with Whisper

The idea of the project is give voice instructions to interact through our PC or our Raspberry Pi using the Voice-to-text Whisper model.

We will give an order that will be transcribed, converted to text, with Whisper and then analyzed to execute the appropriate order, which can be from executing a program to giving voltage to the RaspberryPi pins.

I am going to use an old Raspberry Pi 2, a micro USB and I will use the Voice-to-text model recently released by OpenAI, Whisper. At the end of the article you can see a little more whisper.

Bedini Energy Generator

Bedini’s rally was followed by Jim Watson, a research scientist living in Colorado, Springs. Watson presented two working devices similar to that of John Bedini. Watson’s smallest device worked throughout the presentation and the audience could see that the battery was constantly recharging. The largest device, which weighed 800 pounds, was only revealed for 10 minutes due to practical reasons. During this time, a constant 12kw load was removed from the device. The device was powered by two 12v car batteries.

Disassembling the Ikea Lottorp or Klockis watch

Ikea Lottorp or Kolckis alarm clock exploded view

It’s called Löttorp or Klockis, I think they have changed the name and is a simple clock, alarm, timer and thermometer which he sells at Ikea for $4 or $5. A 4 in one. It is ideal to have it in kitchens, rooms, etc. The good thing about this watch is its usability, it is tremendously easy to switch between its operating modes, you just have to rotate the watch. Thus, as you turn, the different measurements will appear on the display. My daughters go crazy when they catch it. With each turn, it beeps and a light of a different color comes on 🙂

I don’t usually buy things to disassemble them, I always take advantage of something that goes to the trash or recycling, but this time I could not resist. Holding it in hand, I became very curious. Will I be able to use the display with Arduino? What sensor will they use to measure the temperature and to detect the change in position? Is there an interesting hack that can be done to the watch? But above all what has intrigued me the most is what the heck is that loose piece noise you hear when you shake it? Why is something loose inside? And not in a watch, but in all.