April 10, 2006

Mil 24 Hind Model
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Not sure if I would have the effort to build a model like this! But the 15 years of work shows, the details are amazing. Many of the hand crafted parts were made under a microscope. “Fully scratch built, this model took just over 15 years (8000-10,000 hours) to complete. Begun in Kiev (Ukraine), in 1986 this masterpiece was profoundly difficult to construct due to the extreme scarcity of information

DIY Multi-rate Audio DAC
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Jos van Eijndhoven has proved that high end audio equipment does not have to be bought at a store. His audio DAC (digital to analog converter) is proof that with lots of knowledge and some hard work it can be a DIY project! “Features of this new DAC: * Four separate SPDIF inputs are provided. For now one is configured as optical-in, the other 3 as coax-in. The microcontroller that