A motley collection of ideas
The device shown in the picture is the NZ-1 hand winding machine: a simple mechanical tool used to wind neat coils from wire, thin electrical conductor, or other filament-like material. It is not an automatic wonder machine, nor a CNC-controlled industrial device, but a cheap Chinese gadget. I bought it for about 30 euros. Its … Read more
Among radio amateurs – especially abroad – fox hunting is still a fairly popular sport today. Here I present a simple fox‑hunting setup that can be used at home, in the garden, for play, for tracking animals, or even for hunting “flying foxes”. “Fox hunting”, or radio orienteering (Amateur Radio Direction Finding – ARDF, also … Read more
Every day, dozens of tiny, invisible instruments rise above our heads. Weather radiosondes that collect data from the lower and upper layers of the atmosphere, then a few hours later quietly disappear somewhere above fields, forests, and villages. The signals from these sondes can be received by anyone — and that’s where the exciting world … Read more
Typotex Publishing, 2025304 pages, 5500 HUF Artificial intelligence is not a new phenomenon, but large language models (LLMs) have propelled it into pop culture. Today many people call themselves “AI experts,” even though no one yet sees clearly how this technology will integrate into everyday life; everyone is still experimenting with what these tools can … Read more