Current Projects.

Ever since I started playing with the arduino kit and electronics, I've been seeing things in a new light.
Where I saw broken electronics I now see working ones, MY electronics.
As such I have a ton of projects that I wanna work on, so I thought I'd start with a list.

So here goes:

Timelord lock - A lock that activates only when it detects certain levels of green light (to work with my doctor who sonic screwdriver)

Medication reminder - Not for me but one of my first projects I started with, a red light with a button that when pressed turns the light green for exactly 8 hours, decided to make this for my gf's son who needs to take his ADHD medication every 8 hours.

Component Tester - A tester for components such as diodes, LED's, Motors, speakers, pretty much everything with power and ground. (This one is actually finished already, just wanted to list it for completions sake)

Modified Flashlight - As with the tester, this one is actually already done. A modification of my LED flashlight, replaced the white LED's with high strength red ones as red preserves your nightvision, shows more details and makes you less visible.

Sound Activated Multi-colour LED strip - This one is to be placed behind my computer screen and used to accentuate what goes on in video games.

Wireless online radio receiver - A radio receiver for online radio stations, going to be built in a 1950's radio for a cool classic look.

RF Temperature sensor+receiver - To collect temp data from several points and calculate an average.



So those are the ones I can remember right now anyway, I'll be documenting the ones I make here.

Now with electronics!

So it's been a while since the last time I've posted anything here but so much is going on that I feel I need to blog about it.

I recently started playing with an arduino at a local hackathon and pretty much fell in love with the system so with the help of a friend I've bought one and I've been learning more and more about electronics.

After a few breadboard projects of my own I decided I wanted to start soldering but I didn't know how.

A few terrible attempts and some time on reddit later, I finally made some progress.

I learned that the tin I was using was terrible, it was lead free which according to the internet is annoying at it's best, it also had no flux, meaning it didn't flow well.

After I practiced some and got the hang of the technique required I can now say that I can solder somewhat well!

Since I've made a component tester which I will show in the next post and most recently I modified my flashlight, which I'll also document!