Comments on: Stop wasting your air freshener

By: peter

peter — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:58:34 +0000

hi anyone know a way to use cheaper or smaller refils to work in this thing? can reuse plastic holder too was thinking about the small refils from the toilet “hand” sprayer is very similar but smaller

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:24:44 +0000

I,m really interested in a quick mod to disable the time release but retain the motion sensor features of the new Air Wick Freshmatic.
Any suggestions?

Cheers

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:18:52 +0000

I found a way, with the newer Freshmatic freshener, to make the unit light sensitive, using only a photoresistor and a 200kohm resistor as a voltage divider. There is a terminal on the switch that if you bring down to as close to ground as possible will disable the circuit. Bringing it to about 1.3 volts allows the circuit to continue normally. (I have yet to test anything besides the 36 minutes setting, and faster is too much IMHO) Using a simple voltage divider across one of the batteries makes this mod simple and easy, hardest part is mounting the sensor somewhere that makes sense. If one wanted, a potentiometer could be added to adjust sensitivity.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:29:11 +0000

YEAH FIGHT THE POWER, END AIRWICK’S OPPRESSIVE MONOPOLY!!

By: politicorific

politicorific — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:07:08 +0000

I picked up one of these units before I saw this article the other day. Mine has a timer setting, the longest interval being 36 minutes. I wonder if there’s a way I can change it to once every 2 hours or something similar.

By: mpare

mpare — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:35:59 +0000

So if spraying every n minutes is wasteful, what would everyone think of it spraying when the light in say the bathroom is turned off? Going further why not require that the light be off for n minutes before spraying and re using the switch to select not to spray more than once with in x minutes. It’s kinda like that automatic kitty litter pan minus the robotic arm and all the nasty. How much additional logic would this require?

By: superlopez

superlopez — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:49:08 +0000

Enclosure for projects? Battery holder, led, button.. plus cheap and aesthecaly pleasing.

By: D

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:20:44 +0000

haha i read the whole thing in silence and then laughed out loud at the end…. “fuck you, airwick corporation”

By: TheLucster

TheLucster — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:59:22 +0000

I used to have a cheap supermarket branded version. When it was set to ‘off’ it could be triggered manually by using the button.

By: barry99705

barry99705 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:47:02 +0000

Crap, that was supposed to be installed to the top of her roomba….

By: barry99705

barry99705 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:46:30 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out the Lysol dispenser for my germaphobic sister.

By: Sol

Sol — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:28:06 +0000

I’d like to combine a few of these (using various liquids) with my electromechanical one man band to add the dimension of smell to my performance

By: walt

walt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:37:54 +0000

Mad props and thanks for posting. I love it when someone finds a way to stop companies from ripping us off with their wasteful marketing plans. MORE HACKS LIKE THIS, HACKADAY!

By: dan

dan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:18:03 +0000

add a motion sensor and hook it up to a cs/pepper spray can! instant chemical warfare landmine…

By: doctorsound

doctorsound — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:40:04 +0000

Or what about rigging up a foot switch? Because EVERYONE washes their hands, right?

Or to add to the motion/light sensor, put it on a bit of a delay, I don’t want to get blasted sitting on the crapper…

Or set it to receive tweets from twitter, lol.