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Repairing an "unrepairable" camera lens myself

While I was on holiday with my in-laws, the lens mount on my mother-in-law’s camera broke. The lens costs around €400 and with only a small part of the plastic mount place broken, I assumed a simple repair was possible.

Kite filming

During new year I went to Ameland, a island part of the Waddeneilanden in the north of the Netherlands. There I visited a museum about the nature of the island and there was an exposition about kite photography from the nature, made by a man called De Vlas starting thirty years ago. link (Dutch)

Walkie-Talkie Repair: One Loose Wire, Zero E-Waste

After a weekend away with the bigger family, my kid came to me to say that one of her walkie-talkies didn't work anymore. She could still speak using the blue one, but receiving sound didn't work. Before going to school, she asked if I could take a look.