If you’re a resident of Seattle, I highly recommend you check out the Bubble events group. One of their regular events over the summer is something called “Nocturnal Push” where you can get decked out in your best glow gear and cruise the Alki Beach strip on your bike, longboard, or whatever. That’s why I […]
Longboard Wheel Display using AVR microcontroller Read More »
This is a low power signal source I put together one evening to provide 187 KHz RF signals for an anticipated receiver investigation. Under Federal Communications Commission rules inside the United States, one is allowed to operate a transmitter without a license under certain conditions. Here, I have copied the relevant section of the most
1750 Meter Lowfer Band amplitude modulated RF source using ATtiny2313 microcontroller Read More »
As simple as it gets and still works This LED flasher occurred to me while reading about negative resistance in transistors. It was reported that Leona Esaki, who was at Sony at the time, had been surprised to see a negative resistance region while investigating production defects in transistors which lead to his thesis work
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Finally, white LED’s are bright enough to use in a practical stroboscope. This circuit can operate as a bench-top stroboscope that, in conjunction with an oscilloscope or frequency meter and bench top power supply can accurately measure rotational speeds, or it can be operated hand-held from a single 9V battery, using a marked scale to
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Overview Where I live most of the time, the AC power drops out upon occasion. This used to leave me groping around in the dark for a flashlight. I could have bought a battery-backed up “emergency light” for about US$35, but being basically metal boxes with floodlights attached, they would make my living room look
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BUT FIRST AN IMPORTANT NOTE: This project uses lethal voltages. If you are not experienced in working with lethal voltages, read this project, but don’t build it. You only have one life, and AC power can take it from you very quickly, or leave you with terrible injuries. When working on high voltages, remember: •
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Photo. This is the test circuit -the basic driver is only two transistors, two resistors, the circuit was evaluated using a white LED, but when it was time to button it up and archive it, I replaced the expensive white LED with a cheap green one. Othere LED Driver Circuits on this site: White LED
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What it is The circuit allows a precision regulated drive current to be set to drive an LED, and in response to a TTL level signal, the LED is switched on and off with rise and fall times of less than 500 nanoseconds and less than 7% overshoot. This was designed for biological experiments to
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Downloads Download the AVRStudio assembly source for the program: T12astrobe081028A Download the AVRStudio assembly source for the include file: T12astrobe081028A.hex Find updates at www.projects.cappels.org Overview This was designed to flash a pair of LEDs to be mounted on the wing tips of a Parkzone Citabria R/C (remote control) airplane. The unmodified Parkzone Citabria only weights
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Three inductor-free circuits that allow a white LED or UV LED to be driven from one (1.5 volt) or two flashlight cells (3 volts total) are described. The circuits on this page are: The two cell (3 volt) circuit four transistors. The simple single cell (1.5 volt) circuit requires six transistors, but it isn’t as
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