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Keri Szafir

The vacuum tube witch and a vintage electronics nerd doing projects on a budget tighter than Ethel Granger's laces.

Gdańsk, PL
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Who I Am

I've been building electronics for most of my life... Vacuum tube amps (guitar & hi-fi), vintage gear restorations, audio stuff, test gear, automation, fun projects etc. both for myself and for an occassional customer. I own and run Keritech Electronics - my little lab in the center of Gdańsk, Poland, where I live and work. I'm also a mechanic who knows a thing or two on operating and maintaining Monotype typecasting machines. Open to collaborations.

Why I'm on Hackaday.io

For getting out of my tiny lab to the broader world! Your regular mad scientist's plot to conquer the world.

electronics audio Vacuum tube studio gear amplifiers raspberry pi arduino home automation electrical engineering python C gnu/linux
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Equipment power remote control, networked audio interface and a NAS for the digital music collection
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Keritech AC-1 Audio Computer

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A single-ended tube stereo amplifier with a modern technology twist
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Keritech "Little Red Devil" Single-Ended EL84 Amp

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An automatic vacuum tube tester built around the AVT5229 board
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Keritech P-5229/1 vacuum tube tester

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Recombobulating a 1970s vintage digital electronic calculator from Eastern Germany
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Soemtron ETR220 Restoration Project

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Adding a WiFi, NTP and MQTT remote control & measurement unit to a storage heater.
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IoT Storage Water Heater Control

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Combining a Nixie milivoltmeter and an arbitrary number of manually switched LM35 temperature sensors.
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ThermoNIX Multi-Channel Thermometer

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Play Music ? Like Music? Hack Music? Lets hangout and chat!
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Music Chat!

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A space for hanging out, playing, discussing, working together and doing projects. Open days on Thursdays 18:00 local time!
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My Pages

  • Vintage Polish Vacuum Tube Catalogs

    05/31/2024 at 19:01 • 0 comments

    Recent acquisitions in the lab: vacuum tube catalogs by Piotr Mikołajczyk, in addition to the two I already had by Leon Niemcewicz, with vast amounts of vacuum tube data. I love vintage printed catalogs, can't get enough. Enjoy!

  • Channel 2nd Anniversary Special

    12/18/2023 at 20:30 • 0 comments

  • Keritech Electronics Lab Tour!

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Projects I Like & Follow

  • Supplyframe DesignLab: 2023 Hackada…
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A different approach for a solar tracker, alternative movements, to be installed on the outside, to optimize the efficiency of solar panels
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mysoltrk - a solar tracker, reinvented

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This is a 1/60 scale model of the Saturn V and Launcher - Umbilical Tower. This model is huge! I have been working on it for two years.
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Apollo Saturn V and LUT

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Offline and uncensored AI for fighting oppression.
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Los Angeles Liberation Assistant 1.0

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This is the oldest PCB in my collection, acquired from a scrap sale at an old NASA test stand. What did it do?
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Reverse Engineering an Apollo-Era Circuit Card

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A smart cat bowl that uses facial recognition
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Cat Bowl Monitor

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New developments in planetary position calculation applications and external PROM modules for PERSEUS-9.
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PERSEUS-9 2023 Update

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Finally!
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3D Printed Selectric Typeballs

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This is a tube amp build using only the 5V supply of a USB connector.
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Battery tube amp using only 5V USB power

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My not so fancy example of Magnetic Core Memory using fairly cheap cores and free parts from my junk box.
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Magnetic Core Memory The Dr Cockroach Way

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A vacuum tube computer without semiconductors, 4-bit Von Neumann, 4096 words core memory, graphics output
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GLASNOST Vacuum Tube Computer

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Intel 4004 single board computer running calculator program, VTL interpreter, 8080 emulator, and so on
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Intel 4004 Homebrew Computer

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An 8 line by 3 trunk telephone exchange
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Mockingbird Telephone Exchange

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This article presents an actual operation and internal circuitry of my own Digital Sampler in 1979.
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Homebrew Digital Sampler in 1979

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Just doing some restoration on vintage synthesizers
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Synth Restoration

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My entry to the 2024 business card contest, a big-muff guitar pedal in a business card form factor !
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Party in the front, business in the back

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My long journey to understanding the architecture and fixing what ended up being a trivial resistor failure.
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Fixing a Fluke 412b High Voltage Supply

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Utilizing a low cost electrophoresis high voltage supply and DMMs to test a rare Powertube for use in Fluke regulated power supplies.
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Simple Vacuum Tube Tester

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An Arduino compatible board for Polish Makers
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Polduino UNO

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Mitsuru Yamada wrote 07/01/2024 at 10:49 • point

Thank you for liking and following my #Homebrew Digital Sampler in 1979! I remember myself back then, seeing the light dots on the analog oscilloscope screen dancing for the first time in over 40 years.

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Keri Szafir wrote 07/01/2024 at 12:02 • point

That's a lovely project - especially for 1979! That was pretty advanced back then. I'm impressed, and I admire your build quality. Spare no expense!

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Mitsuru Yamada wrote 08/16/2023 at 23:32 • point

Thank you for liking and following my #PERSEUS-9 2023 Update! I was able to find and fix bugs in my own floating-point interpreter by running a somewhat complicated calculation program such as astronomical calculations.

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Mitsuru Yamada wrote 03/20/2023 at 01:48 • point

Thank you for liking and following my #Homemade Floating Point Interpreter for 6502! I recently uploaded a YouTube video of me updating the PROMs of this interpreter with my own PROM programmer. And I added a link to this video to the project.

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Mitsuru Yamada wrote 12/07/2022 at 00:17 • point

Thank you for liking my #Prehistory of my homemade PERSEUS computers ! It was more than 40 years ago, but I have the feeling that I was quite formed in the way I am today.

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Keri Szafir wrote 12/07/2022 at 02:53 • point

I love your Perseus computer project, and what comes with it! Beautifully made - and much appreciated.

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Mitsuru Yamada wrote 12/07/2022 at 14:21 • point

Thank you for liking my several projects ! I make sure that my own creations have a solid housing and design to keep them in practical operation for even 10 years or more.

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Keri Szafir wrote 12/07/2022 at 15:42 • point

That's a sign of good engineering! I'm inspired by the Cold War era electronic design, try to re-create some of that in the devices I build, using vintage components.

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Ken Yap wrote 12/06/2022 at 15:00 • point

Thanks for liking #Restoring a Beckman neon display clock I admire its digits everyday.

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Ken Yap wrote 12/06/2022 at 04:08 • point

Thanks for liking #6 segments suffice !

Wow, that's a really old tube you're holding. Octal base or even older?

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Keri Szafir wrote 12/06/2022 at 09:30 • point

An AL4, old European side contact power pentode.

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Ken Yap wrote 12/06/2022 at 09:38 • point

Wow, respect! Way older than me too.

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Keri Szafir wrote 12/06/2022 at 14:16 • point

This one wasn't that old - 1960s or so, but the type dates back to pre-WWII times.

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