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This is going to be a cross-post slow build. Life is unpredictable and doesn’t allow a whole weekend of building anymore. I usually don’t publish build progress; I publish the entire build. I’m doing it this way because I’ve just noticed a general slowdown in DIY projects, so I am hoping...

I have been wanting to build a switcher for AB(C) test and actually have a simple analogue design. I'm desk-bound right now, but I was playing around with Arduino's and relays for a project a few weeks ago, and it occurred to me that it would be really simple to create a remote-controlled...

I have been procrastinating long enough, so I am posting this. Yes...A Resizable Flatpack Metal Enclosure. Background (Skip this and go to the next post if you want the project.) This project was primarily inspired to inspire people to DIY by trying to reduce one of the critical costs or...

So with every headless PC build I do I always seem to hit a hurdle on WOL, It's like each setup needs it's own particular time in a little ray of sunshine. The sunshine being a hell of BIOS, Power & Network Adapter, and Regedit settings. The WOL is normally integrated into Hassio, my home...

This is one I started a while back. I didn't post because I was chasing down RFI in the pre-amp. It was exciting. I did something complicated with the selector wiring, which acted as an antenna. This system is in my office, which has a lot of tech, so it is damn noisy. I wanted to build a...

This is a weird one. I mean, who needs three regenerators? Especially when finding the parts means shipping from multiple countries. This is more about the journey than the destination. I’m also posting it in case anyone attempts the same. The truth is that that is the actual value of DIY...

My Lite Remote for my has been playing up, I took it apart and did some cleaning and while I had it open I grabbed some details. I was trying to figure out if I should build a new remote, or just order from eBay. Figured I would dropped the info here for Señor Google. This is the Lite Remote...

This is just a heads up, and I am probably late to the game, but for silent PC builds I noticed that Rebeltech is back and stocking both Noctua and Be Quiet! products. https://www.rebeltech.co.za/brand/be-quiet https://www.rebeltech.co.za/brand/noctua

My setup is Mac, Roon > CAT6 Ethernet > Rpi Roon Endpoint. Endpoint is in a separate room ?10m stretch of cable. I got a copy of Dirac. So now I have the Dirac Roon conundrum - I need to go Roon > Dirac > Rpi > Dad Options are: USB Cable Extender, USB CAT Extenders (Seems to be limited to USB...

This is just an FYI for anyone running a home off solar and experiences mechanical hum from Toroids I have a couple of EL34 monoblocks with large-ish Toroids, I noticed after I went solar, and a far bit of household rewiring, that the Toroids had an intermittent pulsing mechanical hum. Voltage...

This is a project long in the pipeline. Geco and I tried the Pass B1 Buffer with the Soekris to great effect. We had spoken about a valve buffer, and I ordered the Aikido 12VAC to try, it's been sitting in a box all the way from Hawaii waiting for work to back off a bit...

Because fdlysis asked, here is my post on the Goslr install. Also, I'm very close to the boundary of being guilty of hijacking Scubadude's 8kW Solar Installation thread! I didn't want this post to come across as a Goslr promotion, I think they are cool, but that's the limit of my interest in...

Anyone know where I can get these locally or internationally. https://www.avforums.co.za/index.php/topic,59045.0.html

I was wondering if anyone new a place that could do aluminium laser or water jet cutting, finishing (as in de-burring, brushing or bead blasting), and anodising. Probably, the most important bit - by a place that is okay dealing with hobbyists who do one-off pieces, and don't go ape with...

Not really Audio, but hey. I decided to build a TV lift using gas lifts. Issue was that motorised units require quite a lot of depth, and steppers require constant power. I wanted something I could manually open and close... because, Loadshedding. I also want something thin enough to feel like...

Just checking if anyone knows what the cheapest and easiest way to set up a cloud based instance of Windows 10. Preferably on an hourly basis. I'm on a mac and I need to run some PC software that is pretty intensive and it's just too demanding to run this stuff using Parallels while working in...

Sorry to drop this all in one go, not great at project diaries. I decided to do this build because I had the drivers, and there were a few ideas I wanted to test. Tbh I've wanted to do a Zaph build for a while... and as a kid I had a deep desire to fly in an Sr-71 Blackbird, I know they are...

Just did quite a complex order from Toutlehautparleur. Their prices aren't actually the cheapest, but this is really by a very slight margin when compared to Madisound, the great thing about them is actually the price of their shipping. For just over 5kg's shipped via their default DHL Express...

Sooo... I know it feels like this info on the forum somewhere, I searched and couldn't locate it. I went past RSE today to get some glue for re-foaming speaker gluing speaker surrounds, and they don't stock their driver refoam glue anymore. It dries out fast, and is a pain to stock. What is...

I went through this process recently. I import a lot of stuff from various parts of the world use a variety of forwarding option, often they're low value components from places like China, anyway, I became aware a while back about the restriction that as an individual could only import three...