Halogen and LED retrofit lights compared

Unfortunately, the low and high beam on my Aprilia RS 125 and RS 250, both built in 1998, are not comparable to newer vehicles when it comes to headlight brightness. The question comes up: What can be done to give the RS 125 better lighting? How do Osram Night Breaker or retrofit LED bulbs actually …

HowTo: Simgenics RBMK-1000-Simulator

The YouTube algorithm suggested a video from user argilaga about a power plant simulator for the RBMK reactors some time ago. I have now also dealt with this simulator myself and would like to share my experiences in this blog entry. Since I have already dealt intensively with the start-up of a coal-fired power plant, …

PrusaSlicer Config for Anycubic “4Max Pro 2.0”

I recently bought the Anycubic “4Max Pro 2.0” and I’m using PrusaSlicer as a slicing software at the moment. The 4Max Pro 2 comes with three configurations for Cura on the SD card, based on these parameters I created a configuration collection for PrusaSlicer. Update (03/2022): These profiles are now officially part of PrusaSlicer since …

Thermal Repasting Lenovo X380 Yoga

On my Lenovo X380 Yoga, I wanted to find out how much the performance can be improved after a year of use by replacing the thermal compound. To do this, I opened the device, replaced the thermal paste and did some benchmarks before and after replacing the thermal compound. It uses an 4 core Intel …

Matlab: Scripts, Functions and local Functions

Sooner or later you come across the fact that you can not only create scripts and save them as .m files in Matlab, but also code certain things: Functions Local Functions Nested Functions Classes Why you should deal with it sooner rather than later and what you can do with that, I’ll explain in this …