Category: Learning Stuff

  • Cable machine weight stacks are lying to you

    So, I very much like to know exactly what I’m doing in the gym. Free weights are the gold standard for being reproducible, but there’s something to be said for the convenience of cable-based weight machines and their weight stacks and pins. I’m not going to lie; I use them myself quite a bit. But…

  • New wireless, old camera

    Disclosure: Affiliate links in article; if you purchase something from an Amazon link on this page, I’ll receive a small amount from Amazon. Over the course of my almost-15-years working for Sony Electronics, I acquired quite a few cameras – video and still. While most of them are HD only (I only have a couple…

  • Mogul Bulb Conversion

    This episode was a fun series of experiments. I’ve seen these big fixtures on farms and sheds since I was a kid, but I’ve never gotten to take one apart. I removed an old 175W mercury vapor bulb, rewired the fixture it was in, and installed a 100W LED corncob light with around twice the…