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Electronic & battery units
12/11/2023 at 14:12 • 0 commentsThe electronic unit (in a new housing) and battery compartment are ready for installation and are awaiting the new season :-)
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New case!
11/28/2023 at 19:38 • 0 commentsIn anticipation of the new season, the electronic unit of metal detector FoxyPI received a new case made of 1.5 mm thick cardboard. The case pattern fits on an A3 sheet.
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Harmonica reed plate
09/19/2023 at 12:48 • 0 commentsHarmonica reed plate found in our garden using my homemade Arduino Nano-based metal detector FoxyPI. Most likely, it was lost by a German or Italian (in our area there was a collection center for Italian units after Stalingrad) soldier during WWII.
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Air tests of DIY pulse (Arduino Nano based) metal detector FoxyPI
07/31/2023 at 14:04 • 0 commentsDetection ranges:
coin 3 kopecks USSR 1979 - 23-24 centimeters,
hard disk platter - 34-36 centimeters
Description (in russian) - https://acdc.foxylab.com/node/47 -
Redesign
07/29/2023 at 17:36 • 0 commentsOver the years of operation, the plastic box of the electronic unit has become unusable, and the installation there was chaotic, since I upgraded the circuit on the fly without reassembling it, and far from every wire I could explain what it connects :)
I rebuilt FoxyPI in a cardboard box.
Reliability was tested by an unintentional fall from a meter height - the latch jumped off the tube, it remained in my hand, and the electronic unit with the power supply was accelerated by gravity :-) -
Fresh "trophy"
06/07/2022 at 16:32 • 0 commentsFresh "trophy" with FoxyPI - forged archaic artifact (before and after cathodic cleaning):
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Coil from demagnetization loop
07/11/2021 at 07:39 • 0 commentsCheck "omnivities" MD to coils - a coil from the demagnetization loop (from old TV) (it works well, although the sensitivity is reduced):
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Metal detector vs VLF radio receiver
01/18/2021 at 10:14 • 0 commentsA working metal detector, even at a distance of 6 meters, completely suppresses my VLF radio receiver:
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Noise
11/07/2020 at 13:49 • 0 commentsThe noise from an CFL located near the coil looks in test mode: -
Noise
11/03/2020 at 18:16 • 0 commentsThis is how the noise from an LCD TV located near the coil looks in test mode: