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Category Archives: Hardware Hacking

Vintage Bike Light under $10 bucks

30-Jun-09

I assure myself someday soon i will be able to understand all the jibberish that is high powered LEDs.
trying to understand what drivers, leds, heatsinks, starpowers i need made my head hurt, but i still want to build my self a light with this technology.
but for now i hacked together this out of 4 [...]

Amp and Broken stuff

03-Feb-09

I got the amp project up and running last night, then today when i turned it on, it is really quiet. boo!
i also broke my synth, i was in a hurry and threw it in the trailer, combined with a speaker bouncing around, the wave switch came off. oh well, if i really feel [...]

Blew Up My First Electronic Component + Road Sign Hacking

29-Jan-09

So last night i decided to be dumb.
the amp i’m working on is set to take 9 volts in two seprate areas on the board. I decided to hook up 12v to one. bad idea.
the speaker made a weird sound and then smoke from a capicitor began spitting out smoke at me.
“OH FUCK, OH FUCK, [...]

More Projects Finished, APC, Synth, and TV-B-Gone

20-Jan-09

Hey everyone, it’s been a busy year so far, here are a few of the projects i finished.
Atari Punk Console:
I tried to do this from a schematic, and i failed but luckily to get me going Getlofi is now offering kits! I came up with a cool case out of a discarded flashlight. Here is [...]

Current Projects

15-Dec-08

My current projects are as follows:
Pimping my Gakken SX-150:

I really want to take this synth far, i’v found many mods i want to make permanent. Hopefully by 2009 it will be ready for action
Car Horn On A Bike:
Read the instructable here http://www.instructables.com/id/Putting_A_Car_Horn_On_Your_Bicycle/.
I need to mostly finish number two and refine the design.
Atari Punk Console:
These [...]