Archive for June, 2012

My Lava Lamp Has a Turbo Button

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

D006D-V3 Variation

Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

So called because that’s what’s printed on the PCB, this is one of the units I received a few weeks back.

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Test Point Off On Shutter Pressed
A 0v Pulse 0v,Vcc,0v
B 0v Pulse then 1.9v 1.9v,Vcc,1.9v
C 0v 0v Vcc
D 0v Vcc Vcc
G 0v Vcc when pressed 1.1v
H Vcc Vcc Vcc

Underside

Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

Here’s the underside of the Throwie showing a couple of rare earth magnets glued into some Sugru.

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Sadly I think I was a little enthusiastic pushing everything together in the case and I damaged the LiPo battery, which swelled up and wouldn’t hold a charge. I swapped it out for a larger one I had and put them in heatshrink.

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The new units I ordered behave slightly different from my first one and I’ll have to modify the code anyway.

Treehouse Progress

Friday, June 15th, 2012

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