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Over the last few months I have been mainly working on electronics based projects that make funny sounds. Unfortunately I have a short attention span and have stopped working on them for the moment and have started up learning objective-c with the aim of making some sort of iOS app. I do have a...
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After designing my own semi successful PCB for the ‘Weird Sound Generator‘ I decided to try and build the strip board version from the site. I still had a whole bunch of spare parts left over from the first build so I just needed a bit of strip board. I also got some knobs....
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Last week I picked up Make magazine vol. 26 and found a cool project called the ‘Luna Mod’. It is basically a sound generator/looper based on a picaxe 08M. It has 2 potentiometers, a button and a couple of LEDs to indicate power and tempo. When you press the button it adds a tone...
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The last couple of weeks I have been working on some new projects. I found some info on building a sound generator of sorts here and though it looked like fun. Rather than just order the parts and build it using the PCB design on the site I though it would be a good...
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When I got my new laptop I opted for a solid state drive. My plan was to have an external hard drive with all my media, games, photos etc on it and have only the bare essentials on the SSD. In theory this seemed like a water tight plan, but in practice it wasn’t...
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Something I want to achieve with my arduino projects is to have the ATMega328 chip built in to the project directly, without the use of the arduino programming board. This week I spent some time learning how this could be done and put together a prototype of a simple LED blinky circuit with the...
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This week I had a whole bunch of things arrive in the mail. One of them being a PCB etching kit that comes with some small PCBs and a chemicals for etching. At this stage I don’t have a drill press for drilling PCB holes and I don’t trust my shaky hands to do...
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This weekend I spent a few hours with my brother building the box for the laser operated soap dispenser. Unfortunately we found that the servo I had wasn’t powerful enough to push down on the soap pump. The servo ended up burning out so at this stage I am stuck while I wait for...
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This project is basically just a result of a couple on smaller examples I have been playing around with for the Arduino. The idea is that you have a laser beam pointing at a sensor and when that beam is broken a servo is activated to press on the head bit of a soap...
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