Category Archives: Personal Projects

The Olimex Duinomite

Posted on January 28, 2012 by smackaay

A while back I was thinking about making a small board that would run it’s own OS and methodology for programming, similar to the computers of old such as the TRS-80 and the Commodore 64. Everything was on these machine … Continue reading →

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Many Dev Boards… what to do?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by smackaay

First, an update about the annoyo, it worked perfectly and maximized irritation while making itself difficult to find. Anyways, I just received my BeagleBone and I promptly thought to myself, what am I going to do with this? Then I … Continue reading →

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Another pic10f200 project, the Annoyo!

Posted on January 9, 2012 by smackaay

I had this cool idea for a prank at the office, a device that generate sound every 6 minutes. This device generates 4 different sounds at 6 minute intervals. The idea is that the sounds are short, familiar, difficult to … Continue reading →

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Ugluino, the ugly Arduino powered robot

Posted on January 1, 2012 by smackaay

So, even though I’ve built a wide variety of crap over the last few years, all of them with varying utility, I’ve decided to build a quick robot. With oodles of free time and the feeling of having to go … Continue reading →

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Some neat devices for the hobbyist

Posted on December 29, 2011 by smackaay

Ok, well, the year is coming to an end and I’ve seen a number of neat devices out there but here are some that I own. The next year coming up is a going to be an interesting year methinks … Continue reading →

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Old photocopiers and you!

Posted on July 21, 2011 by smackaay

So a company that shares a parking lot with out company sells and distributes photocopier services. One day I was told about a whole bunch of photocopiers that were just sitting there. Deciding to take the plunge and rip through them the … Continue reading →

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Timer lamp, Part Deux

Posted on May 7, 2011 by smackaay

Anyways, as I promised, here is the almost finished. A couple days later than I said but, still, I did finish it for the most part. So Basically what we have here is a $20 lamp that’s been outfitted with … Continue reading →

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The timer lamp Redux, Part one.

Posted on May 4, 2011 by smackaay

Well, in the vein of the spirit of the low-end microcontroller, I decided to make a timer lamp based around the PIC10F200. I did one years ago and it was based on a pic16f505 which is a low end MCU … Continue reading →

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The new lab, again and a fish light controller

Posted on April 16, 2011 by smackaay

Nothing special in todays update but I figured I’d post a few things for the fun of it. First off I guess is my lab. I’ve been using it for a month or so. A little small, but at least … Continue reading →

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Happy 2011! uuh, I guess a bit late though.

Posted on March 3, 2011 by smackaay

It’s been well over two months since I last posted. Frankly, not a lot has happened in the meantime anyways. Work is going well and life is pretty good. That said, I’ve begun to regain my inspiration for electronics again … Continue reading →

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Some changes, some improvements, some fun.

Posted on October 14, 2010 by smackaay

Yes, it’s been some time, again. Every post I make seems to say the same things. anyways. Here are some things I’m working on and also no longer working on. Viscometer No, nope and no. They bore me now and … Continue reading →

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55g servo drawing.

Posted on June 20, 2010 by smackaay

For anyone that needs the drawing for a 55g servo, here we go. It’s been some time since I’ve updated but never fear, more boring stuff is to be posted soon heres is a link to the actual PDF if … Continue reading →

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A crummy little servo tester and other minutia

Posted on December 14, 2009 by smackaay

The little servo tester Well, I needed a way to test all of these servos I got from EBay and I decided to spend a little time making a quick and dirty little board for doing that. It uses a … Continue reading →

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Stormer Viscometer Grams to Oz-Inch Conversion

Posted on November 10, 2009 by smackaay

Trying to make sense of the standard stormer viscometer and methods that could be used to calibrate a device, I’ve been looking at the original stormer viscometer in order to get an idea of what ‘grams’ actually means in the … Continue reading →

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Quick post, a couple of drawings.

Posted on October 1, 2009 by smackaay

The chill is in the air, October is here. I’ve been pretty busy with the viscometer and some other things, however I drew a couple of objects just for future reference. I figured somebody might need the dimensions of either … Continue reading →

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Time’s a passin’ – DIY Arms, Music, and invention

Posted on June 25, 2009 by smackaay

Well, the past few weeks have been eventful and interesting. I’ve been busy and school is almost over. I’ve had a few things on the go and I’ve come up with some interesting ideas and implementations. Sorry for the lack … Continue reading →

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Still goin’ at ‘er, now attending the self employment program

Posted on April 20, 2009 by smackaay

Well, no new project pictures or anything. Summer is almost here and I’m pretty happy about that. I’m going to start at a training course for 8 weeks starting May 11. The program itself is funded through the Canadian Government … Continue reading →

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A Drawing of a Servo, for reference.

Posted on April 10, 2009 by smackaay

Well, my servos have all come in for a project I’ve been working on. These ones being some cheap Chinese servos that I picked up off Ebay. Here’s a photo of one of them. Now that I have them I … Continue reading →

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Sky-Tracker, so far, so good.

Posted on February 9, 2009 by smackaay

For the last few days I’ve been working on the electrical portion of an astrophotography mount for my camera. The mechanical portions were built by my father and I’m handling the electronic portion of the device. Basically, for those who … Continue reading →

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Bored, playing with DooM maps.

Posted on February 2, 2009 by smackaay

Many years ago I used to make maps for Doom. There is still a community going strong for making maps and now with modern source ports and editors, sometimes I dabble in making a new maps. Anyways, here are some … Continue reading →

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Wrote a little game… Astrosmasher

Posted on January 30, 2009 by smackaay

Well, out of boredom I’ve created a little game called Astrosmasher. Nothing special really, I just wanted to see if I could make a game look like an old Atari game. I think I succeeded in some ways Astrosmasher is … Continue reading →

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Temperature and light, several days

Posted on January 21, 2009 by smackaay

Well, It’s been a number of days since I built the unit and all’s been tested. Here is a picture of some of the data from my living room over the past several days. The purplish is the temperature and … Continue reading →

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Temperature and ambient light tracking

Posted on January 17, 2009 by smackaay

So, since I’m really bored I decided to build a device that tracks ambient temperature and light levels. While this may not seem very interesting, I suspect the relationship between the two, while not directly linked, will be interesting especially … Continue reading →

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Playing around, drawing a valve.

Posted on January 7, 2009 by smackaay

I was a little bored today so I decided to draw a valve. While the dimensions are entirely drawn from my head and the valve itself wouldn’t be very efficient, I like the look of gas compressor valves. It took … Continue reading →

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Kinda been in a creative funk…

Posted on December 21, 2008 by smackaay

For the last while I’ve been in a bit of a creative funk. Troubles at work and the the weather have made it difficult to concentrate on the things that I like. Anyways, perhaps while I have some time off … Continue reading →

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The LED Clock

Posted on December 11, 2008 by smackaay

Well, for the past little while, I’ve been working on a bizarre clock made with LEDs glued into a dollar-store cookie sheet. I got the idea just out of the blue and decided that it would be fun to build. … Continue reading →

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The lamp I’ve been saying I was going to build

Posted on July 5, 2008 by smackaay

Well, I’ve built it, the useless yet fun, timer lamp. The idea behind the timer lamp is to have a bedside lamp that you can turn on and of but also set it to turn off after a certain amount … Continue reading →

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Project Report

Posted on April 22, 2008 by smackaay

Following is a report of my progress regarding the viscometer. Having spent several months on this project and having gone through four mechanical iterations and umpteen electronic iterations of design, it’d be a good idea to go through and describe … Continue reading →

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A quick and dirty project.

Posted on May 27, 2007 by smackaay

Being bored and needing a reasonably safe source of 120VAC I decided to build a little box with some terminals. Just something simple.   It may not be the safest thing in the world but it beats the shit out … Continue reading →

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