Saturday, January 29, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Interior View
Updated design showing new extender board with GPS and datalink modules installed, and antenna mounted inside.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Large Nixie Tubes
An exceptionally generous gift arrived today from an old friend now in Minnesota...four large Nixie tubes plus a full set of documentation and plans. My first guess is they are Burroughs B-7971's; click on title to this post for link to more information.
Remote Telemetry Instrumentation Unit
Arduino controlled remote telemetry box including battery power supply and wireless communication module with 6 mile range. Currenlty testing with temperature logging; plans include gps, accellerometer, magnetic flux, serial jpeg camera module, and other sensors.
Shown in first test location mounted under one of our radars in the back yard.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
70 Year Old Meter
A meter out of a tube tester with a hand-typed paper manual dated 1940. D3 created a new CPU USAGE panel for the meter in Inkscape. An Arduino micro-controller is driving a current source transistor for testing and interface.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Latching Push Button Switch
D3 innovative modification of industrial push button switch with the addition of a solenoid to create a magnetic latch that opens when the button is pushed.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Supercharged Weed Wacker Engine
Direct air injection at 70psi combined with opening the high speed jet for more fuel......runs very loud, very fast!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
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