8.25.2008

Cylon

About a week ago I've decided to build the cylon-lights project from parts laying around the house (apparently I'm really good at getting more parts than I need for a project)...

Anywho ... I'm going by the Cylon-O-Lantern design, because it seemed pretty straight forward, and I'm sure I had all the stuff sitting around.

Found a 555, the of 4017's and a bag of led's & resitors and started hacking away... But after searching my stock-pile and my dad's only found 4 appropriate diodes. I have no suitable capacitors either so I found a bunch in a beat-up non-functional DVD player, But they're friggin impossible to un-solder :-(

So I had to break down & head out to radioShack... Grabbed a new tin of flux, a bunch of diodes, and a solder-sucker (I usually use braid) ... Still no luck on those caps though, Where does the 'Industry' get this super-solder !! it's driving me nuts ... Hopefully someday I'll get the caps off that damn board and finish this up for my super-evil plans...

By the way, the basics of this circuit (as in not connecting it to 6 leds) can be built into a pretty mean step-sequencer for DIY synths by connecting it thusly:

The pots all connect to one LED to control its brightness, which in turn controls the resistor's value makeing it play a simple melody.

8.12.2008

Free Ipod Touch ??

I've never been able to get anything for free (except for lunch at costco, where I walk past the samples a dozen times) So I'm testing this free Ipod Touch deal, I chose the easiest to complete (8gb iPod Touch) it only takes 1 offer and 5 refferals... so Please help me out with my little experiment...

Click here:

OR go to this link: http://www.YourFreeVideoiPods.com/index.php?ref=5305182

Sign up for something .... I did the free credit report ...

and then I'll let you know how it goes...  Alot of people are doing it, so it can't be that bad.

Also it'll give you your OWN referral number so you can get a free ipod too...

And if I get an iPod, you know I'll jailbreak & hack it, and give you all the details....