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Monthly Archives: April 2005

I’ll be slow posting here for a few days.

25-Apr-05

I’m working on a new wordpress community plugin for the contest at Weblog Tools Collection. The contest blog is here. The prize for the best community plugin is $500, so it’s got my attention for at least a few days.

Max756 dc-dc step-up power supply

23-Apr-05

You can see some of the pictures here: MAX756 DC-DC Step UP I’ve built this for one of the LED projects I’m working on. Very good refresher on reading schematics and applying them to the real world. The power supply will provide 3.3V or 5V out with a minimum of 0.7V in. (Requires 1.1V to [...]

WordPress Plugin Competition Blog

20-Apr-05

WordPress Plugin Competition Blog My first entry to the WordPress plugin contest over at Weblog Tools Collection. If you have an unreleased plugin head on over and enter it into the contest! I’ve been using a hacked together form of this plugin for a few months on lr2.com. This contest prompted me to get off [...]

Altoids Lamp V2 attempt 1

16-Apr-05

My first attempt at the Altoids Puck light. The switch is inside the can and you just twist the two halves to toggle power. I’m not completely satisfied with this one. It’s a bit sloppy and I need to find a better way to make the holes. The metal bends too easy, maybe a thin [...]

Shuffle a Playlist onto CD-Rs

12-Apr-05

I gave you a taste of the shuffle function a few posts ago, here’s the finished script. Well, finished enough to work. There could be more error checking and it could write the songs to a list so you know what’s on the CD, but for my purposes it works great. To start with I [...]

Lamp V2 – planning

12-Apr-05

This is going to be another simple lamp, but with better power management and a different form. I’ve seen some “puck” shaped lights on the net, namely the Indium from Angus Noble that retails for about $80.