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The Sonos Ray is the cheapest and simplest soundbar made by Sonos. Slightly more expensive than the price of two Symfonisks but with an optical audio input and IR receiver, I was curious to see if this device could be hacked to be a Sonos Amp alternative for a quarter

At some point in the last decade Arlec and Click decided to rain down a form of terror upon us all unlike the world had ever seen before. Of course I'm talking about 4000k+ LED garden lights which some experts refer to as "moon-lighting [https://thelightyard.com/

One of our lockdown projects in 2020 was to install a solar battery system and drawer fridge into the back of our Nissan X-Trail...

Adding secondary supports to the fold out bed bases of the Topagee poptop camper.

What happens when you tear the drivers of a pair of Beats Flex and run them to a standard set of headphones? It's time to find out...

Usually I research stuff before I buy it but the Topagee was one of those things where I didn't really care where it came from or how it was made, I just knew I wanted to give it a home. Recently I've started digging in to old manuals and pictures online and this is what I've come up with...

It's Thursday morning as I arrive to a green tin shack on the side of an agricultural warehouse in Kyneton. Framed by two rusty stakes in the dried out grass, I peer through the damaged window and see that there's nobody there...

Before I grab the sawzall and start hacking away at the Topagee, it's probably a good idea for us to take it camping in its raw, unadulterated, newly purchased state to see just what we've got here...

Just like every good origin story, it all started with Facebook marketplace...