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Roo Solar

2011-06-11T06:47:00.000-07:00

Small Solar Setup for running off the Grid at Bonnaroo, the Four-day, multi-stage camping festival held on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee.

Project Tom Part #1

2011-05-25T16:27:00.001-07:00

This is the soaker hose system that I made from a HDPE Milk Jug, some of my old air tubing I used for my CPAP and some PEX water tubing with HDPE Champagne corks for a stoppers. The base is blue Wall foam hot glued to the bottom of the jug and attached with the ties that came with the new garden hose.

Mic Mod

2011-04-16T21:04:00.000-07:00

My brother needed a cheap HQ audio input device for making a device for streaming the NOAA Weather Broadcasts to his cell phone. So we trimmed the mic off of a rock band mic from Goodwill and put a jack in its place.

2011-04-16T18:34:00.000-07:00

My brother Gavin just gave me a 722$ Small CPAP for FREE!! This thing is tiny ! About the size of the humidifier chamber of my main unit. Now I can take naps without needing to go to the bedroom! I just need to get the settings entered ! I also found this teardown of the unit so I don't have to take it apart... yet.

ResMed S8 Escape Disassembled

Wireless Headset?

2011-04-10T21:40:00.000-07:00

I gutted a broken one to see what this wireless headset looks like. Can't be to old it has that can in it (see photo). But It will be fun to build the coil and try to get it working. Anyone know if they make 1.4v N sized batteries anymore?

The Workshop of Model Maker Adam Savage @ WSJ.com

2011-04-05T07:16:00.000-07:00

The Workshop of Model Maker Adam Savage @ WSJ.com: "

The Workshop of Model Maker Adam Savage @ WSJ.com…

Last June,Adam Savage and his wife, Julia Ward, fell in love with a four-bedroom, Edwardian house on a quiet street in the eclectic Mission district. But before he could close on it, Mr. Savage had to build it.

Build a model, that is. Borrowing blueprints from their real-estate agent, he constructed a replica out of white foam-core in half dollhouse scale, even making little models of himself and Ms. Ward from cut-outs of photographs and mounted like game pieces. “I built it so we could obsess over it,” Mr. Savage said on a recent Saturday, wearing orange-and red-striped socks that played off his signature red hair.

Scrap DIY LED Poi

2011-04-02T23:24:00.000-07:00

Oh hai What you did there...I see it!

2011-03-31T17:52:00.001-07:00

Sparky WonderSquid sent me and old Symbol barcode scanner for parts. I had to scan the label after I promptly removed it.

I fix stuff.

2011-03-31T17:22:00.000-07:00

Just dropped a pair of fabric scissors down the lint trap! >:( Never opened up a dryer before!!

what did I find? A few thermal fuses, an impeller blower, heater unit and the scissors. :D So I went ahead and vacuumed everything out for good measure.

Here is to fixing your own stuff!

Fiber to the head.

2011-03-31T17:16:00.000-07:00

Plastic Optical Fiber mounted into felt hat with BlinkM LED. I used a craft glue stick to coat the optical fibers as hot glue melts the fiber and dampens the brightness.

See 'n Say What?

2011-03-31T17:12:00.000-07:00

This is the board from a See 'n Say Toy. See the test points? Easy hack with some ribbon cable from an old floppy drive cable. Just make sure that you cut the traces around the IC blob as the ground potential will trigger the Wave Shield.

The Wave Shield

2011-03-31T17:04:00.000-07:00

Adafruit Industries Wave Shield and a 328 upgrade chip for a toy hack . This is an awesome way to add sound to your projects!

Red toolbox saves the day!

2010-06-26T15:28:00.000-07:00

Someone forgot a power cable to a PSK31 interface. So I whipped out my tool box to save the day!

Testing Poi

2010-04-07T20:00:00.000-07:00

Poi idea made with a Thingm BlinkM.

Cap Plague and Saved Monitor.

2010-01-04T13:45:00.000-08:00

In this photo the three capacitors are grouped in a row of three, the two on the left are bulging at top and one is torn, by design, called venting. The close proximity if the voltage regulators did not help. :D A quick call to Randolph and Rice and a quick soldapult and I saved this expensive Samsung display!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Heathers Hoop

2009-10-21T16:21:00.000-07:00

My friend Heather wanted a color changing hoop so this was what we came up with.

PICAXE MCU, Strings of Shifting RGB LEDs, 44ft of wire, PEX and the plastic line is to feed it into the tube.

Paper Crafts

2009-08-02T17:01:00.000-07:00