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Tag Archives: ELECTRICAL
Glade Sense and Spray Teardown
In a recent article, I went over how to use the Glade automatic air freshener for your own purposes – triggering a camera in this case. Per some of the comments on this site and elsewhere, there is some interest … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AIR FRESHENER, ELECTRICAL, GLADE, HACK, REUSE, UPCYCLE
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Trigger Your Camera Using Automatic Air Freshener Parts
Per an earlier post, Glade was nice enough to provide a very hackable set of components in their “automatic spray” air freshener. Once I had the components in hand, an obvious use was for a remote camera trigger. After some … Continue reading
Posted in STOP MOTION, TOOLS
Tagged AIR FRESHENER, CAMERA, CAMERA MOUNT, ELECTRICAL, EXILIM, GLADE, HACK, PICTURE, PROJECT, ROBOT, STOP MOTION, TIME LAPSE, WOOD, WOOD PROJECT, WOODWORKING
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Hacking a Glade Automatic Spray air Freshener
According to my Youtube statistics, about 90% of my audience is male. My mom is a big fan of this site, so if you’re not her there’s a good chance that you’re a guy. Given this, you may not have … Continue reading
MAME using an encoder
After a marginally successful attempt at building a “wireless MAME” device using an old keyboard, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and simply buy an encoder. Although the original setup did work as a wireless controller for … Continue reading
Posted in MAME
Tagged ARCADE, CONSTRUCTION, ELECTRICAL, ENCODER, MAME, VIDEO GAME, WOOD PROJECT, WOODWORKING
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Draftsight Review – Like AutoCAD, but free!
This article is now officially hosted at: jcopro.net. This site is no longer updated. As I took a free class on Solidworks two summers ago, I was on the Dassault Systemes mailing list. Dassault Systemes most famously makes CATIA and … Continue reading
Posted in SOFTWARE
Tagged AUTOCAD, DASSAULT, DASSAULT SYSTEMES, DRAFTSIGHT, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL
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Pegleg the six-legged (hexapod) robot – part 1, introduction
Late in the year 2000 after watching Battlebots, I decided that I needed my own robot. While the price of a Battlebot proved too high, both in terms of materials, access to machine tools, and radio remote control knowledge, I … Continue reading
Posted in ROBOTICS
Tagged BASIC STAMP, ELECTRICAL, HEXAPOD, PROGRAMMING, PROJECT, ROBOT, SERVO
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Wireless MAME part 3 – Electrical Design and Construction
Hopefully you found the discussion about the mechanical design of my MAME setup informative, but the thing that – for better or worse – sets this apart from most of the others on the internet is the fact that it … Continue reading
