Giant bulb VU meter

August 8, 2009 By 20 Comments

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The latest Inventgeek project is a 12 outlet control box. They decided to demo it using a giant bulb based VU meter. The control box has 12 individual outlets hooked up to two layers of six solid state relays. [Jared] notes that SSRs can be very expensive, but he purchased his on eBay for ~$10 each. Wiring and installation … Read the rest

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Paintball gun turret assembly videos

March 14, 2009 By 13 Comments

[Jared] has updated his paintball gun turret page with more detailed assembly videos. You can read more about the project in our original post.… Read the rest

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Paintball gun turret

February 26, 2009 By 39 Comments

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[Jared Bouck] has been sending in his projects for a couple years now. We’ve enjoyed his heavy-duty DDR pads, LCD backlight repair, and ion cooling projects. His latest, an RC paintball gun turret, is our favorite though. He actually rates this as one of the easier projects he’s published; it just took a while to assemble. … Read the rest

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