Comments on: Columbus Day: What are you working on?

By: hotdog

hotdog — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:52:32 +0000

Can you actually see through the cyber goggles?

By: Raffaele

Raffaele — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:03:53 +0000

Great post, thanks for the info

By: edge

edge — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:41:40 +0000

The goggles can be found by typing “cyber goggles”, I had a pair of spikey ones myself :p

http://www.clubwear.co.uk/acatalog/CY-X_GOGGLES.html

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:49:59 +0000

I’m working on so much right now… pleh my whole work area is a mess from it. I’m trying to get a set of decent hard drive speakers working, I’m building an amp for them, also building a portable amp for my electric guitar, I’m modding my other real amplifier to have a talkbox, and I’m trying to build a radio jammer. Also trying to get my computer to run at a little lower temperature. And I’m having fun trying to do all this with stuff I already have, haha.

By: Louis II

Louis II — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:04:55 +0000

I did not know this was a holiday…
…anyway!
I am working on a Backpack that carries 4 sound systems and runs off of 4 12v DeWalt battery packs and with a standard headphone jack for input. The idea is to make sounds that influence those around the backpack with out them knowing that the sounds are influencing them so much.
Peace!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:35:29 +0000

built a 5volt 3a power supply for my car’s instrument panel. (** Mercury Cougar)It used to use a bi-metal strip to regulate power.(??) Good old LM323K and a few caps.
Also worked on my Steampunk’d computer monitor.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:26:03 +0000

Its fully RC. Live video feed, audio feed. heads up display in the paintball helm or on a transmitter. night vision. 1/2 mile range tested so far. when it fires…. its amazing! lol! our next model will have 4 barrels. and we are looking into a 4X4 version also soon.

jared

By: nathangray

nathangray — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:21:01 +0000

@jared:
That’s a thing of beauty. I’ve been intending to build one for years, so I look forward to your writeup.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:04:53 +0000

Heheheheheheheh. im working on lots of things. this is the next one i am publishing.

http://www.inventgeek.com/images/turret.jpg

By: bill

bill — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:47:30 +0000

Refurbing a Mortal Kombat 2 machine. Currently waiting on some parts for the monitor to come it. Going to turn it into a mame machine, but add a switch to revert back to the original game.

By: Derwin

Derwin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:40:32 +0000

I’m working on a simple project, putting a cheap bluetooth headset inside of an old car phone just for kicks. I can resolder the speaker and mic to work with the old phone’s original components, but I’m having trouble figuring out a way to mount it so that i could push the sync button and change the battery inside easily. What would you use?

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:59:23 +0000

I’m working on mounting a MMIC frequency multiplier in a surplus Philips 39 GHz downconverter for a 47 GHz radio that I’m building. I’m going to see if the crappy Arctic Silver epoxy will suffice for MMIC use. The real good silver epoxy has to be ordered, costs more and requires refrigeration. I also ordered some 1 mil gold bonding wire to try and do some wire bonding.

By: cde

cde — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:44:56 +0000

You can get one of those Cellboost for Camcorders. The Cam1 is a bit bulky, but has screws, and inside is 6 aa sized batteries. Replace the batteries with rechargeables, and you have a nice self regulating battery pack with camera mounting screw.

By: fartface

fartface — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:56:18 +0000

Hacking my Crestron AES to allow simpl control instead of systembuilder.

I love this real home automation gear compared to the Toy stuff sold at smarthome.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:49:51 +0000

36 LED times 2 = 72 LED times at least 20mA per LED (more for IR) = 1440mA, that had better be rechargeable batteries there then, in a shoulder or belt-attached bag or something.
I don’t think those 12v remote batteries would last more than a few minutes, assuming you combined several of them of course else they’d lack the capability to source such amperage.