Project Log
AuthorViktor Hansson
SubjectElectronics · 3D printing · misc. hacks
Revd05b591 · 2026-06-15 08:13 UTC

Replacing my parts boxes with a printed library

My Biltema parts boxes are discontinued, so I can't extend them — and I refuse to be stuck. The fix: a printed storage system, Gridfinity bins inside Bookfinity "books", with a nuts-and-bolts cover I made by feeding the comment-variant design to nanobanana. Two books are off the Bambu Lab P2S so far, print-in-place hinges and all.

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From breadboard to my first PCB

With the valve circuit working on a breadboard, I turned it into my first home-made PCB. I drew it up in EasyEDA, kept everything through-hole so I can hand solder it, and — after Claude caught a switch trace on the wrong rail and talked me into a flyback diode across the motor — sent five boards off to PCBWay.

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Motorizing the summer-house valve with four transistors

My family's summer-house garden tap is fed by a manual valve buried half a metre down in the workshop floor, under a shelf. Step one of replacing it: I drive a CWX-15Q motorised ball valve (CR05) from a single switch using a four-transistor circuit — no microcontroller — that runs the one-way motor to the position I pick and cuts power at the valve's limit switches. For fun, and tested on a breadboard.

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Hello, world — setting up this log

Why this site exists, how it works, and what it's built with: plain HTML committed to git, graph paper drawn in CSS, and a deploy pipeline that is just git push.

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