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Stronger Glasses
I made a pair of light up Kanye West glasses for New Years! Firstly, I want to say that I completely ripped off this idea from my very talented friend Jordan. The electrical design is mine, but the...
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Transistor Clock Part 1: Power and Time Base
So, if you have been following me on twitter, you might have noticed this tweet where I raved about a "Transistor Clock" kit that lets you build a wall clock using 194 discrete transistors and hundreds...
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Transistor Clock Part 2: Prescaler
So we're off to part two of my teardown of the transistor clock and things are getting complicated. Really complicated... Goal Last time, I covered the first stage of the clock that left us with a 9V...
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I Should Give China More Credit
When this whole EL wire obsession started, I was a little disappointed with the poor efficiency I was getting out of my cheap Chinese EL wire drivers. I assumed that they (like a lot of things coming...
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Dimming EL Wire Dreamcatcher
I got EL wire to dim! And I made this: Background Ever since the travesty that I made back in May, I have been trying to find a good way to dim electroluminescent (EL) wire and EL materials in...
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