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Pulley + Tree

Hanging Pulleys In Trees

How to put a pulley high up in a tree while keeping your feet firmly on the ground. The best way to hang a wire antenna.

Microphone Activator Series

Deep teardown of a Cloudlifter CL-1 microphone activator + design and build out of a custom variant.

Tuff Torq K46 Mod Series

Adding an external expansion tank and drain plugs to the popular Tuff Torq K46 mower transaxle.

Builds builds builds… well mostly!

Welcome to the home of MostlyBuilds. You can mainly find me on YouTube, but I’m slowly expanding my footprint to other platforms, and will be using this website as a hub for projects and general information.

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  • ESP32 + SPI Capacitive Touchscreen Tutorial

    ESP32 + SPI Capacitive Touchscreen Tutorial

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    It wasn’t long ago that capacitive touchscreens were completely out of reach for hobbyists. Cheap resistive touchscreens have been available for a while, but can be a bit finicky to use. Finally, inexpensive capacitive touchscreens have arrived, and they are awesome. Let’s take a look at the 2.8-inch 240×320 IPS SPI Capacitive Touchscreen(Amazon) that uses

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  • Meshtastic MagSafe Case

    Meshtastic MagSafe Case

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    The Case Build I recently built a MagSafe case for a RAK Wireless board running Meshtastic. It uses an integrated magnet array to attach to the back of a compatible phone. If you aren’t familiar with Meshtastic, it’s a peer-to-peer wireless project that lets devices join a local mesh network. I won’t go into detail

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  • Hanging Pulleys From Trees

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    Pulleys In Trees? Ever since I started getting into ham radio, the dream has always been to make contact with people across the globe. It should be easy, right? Get licensed, buy the equipment, and you’re good to go—right? Well… kind of. I knew I wanted the biggest dipole antenna I could reasonably fit on

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