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  1. In Techmoan's latest video
    youtu.be/3-UMs5kvNVQ?t=13m56s
    At 13:56 he is reluctant to buy a handheld 50/60Hz strobe light for US$75 and finds a similar "homemade flashy box thing" for £20

    Question is what components are in the $75 version compared with the £20 DIY version?

    A microcontroller, clock crystal, LEDs with driver circuitry?

  2. [Bigclivedotcom] busts a myth that those cheap Ebay/Aliexpress TP4056 lithium polymer battery charger modules will end up overcharging your battery if you keep them in circuit powering a load (e.g. a string of LED fairy lights)
    youtu.be/f2yMs-JAyQM

  3. @Sundruid @adafruit

    This whole incident reminds me of this vintage 1979 episode of "Project U.F.O." - "The Whitman Tower Incident" (S2E12)

    youtu.be/IvByc4lNH54?t=38m10s
    If you don't want the watch the whole poorly recorded episode you can skip to 38:10 for the explanation

    Apparently the Project TV series was based on actual Project BLUE BOOK casefiles.
    archives.gov/research/military

  4. I spent the weekend cutting copper slug tape into thin strips, sticking them to a piece of cardboard at regular 1.2mm (not 1.27mm) spacing, coating with solder, and carefully aligning them with the zebra connector for a LCD display of a broken DT-830B multimeter clone

    I suppose an alternative would have been to order several PCBs each with a slightly different offset for the zebra connector, and then throw away the ones that were misaligned

  5. My #genuary22 contribution was inspired by the #shadow artistry of Shigeo Fukada. His "Lunch With a Helmet On" must be seen to be believed
    designer-daily.com/remarkable-

    Learning more about P3D mode in #Processing. Might be using this more in future #genuary prompts

    #genuary2023 #shadowArt #ShigeoFukada #CreativeCoding #3D #GenArt #GenerativeArt

  6. This reminds me of my own experiments with making decorations powered wirelessly

    From my

    Inductor, diode, 1000 uF electrolytic capacitor, TL431A for voltage regulation and a meteor shower LED which draws all its power from a Qi charger

  7. This set is useless for removing these hex screws that fasten the metal housing for a COB LED I found on the street. Did this get snapped off from a vehicle or a flashing street sign?

    The hex-star bits don't fit the screws properly and the metal is too soft so they just get chewed up

    The PCB has 3 LEDs on each side. All 6 seem to be working. 3 in series, both sides in parallel. Total forward voltage of about 7.6V

  8. A salvaged Li-poly battery from a discarded vape pen I found on the ground outside now powers my enhanced "Noel" decoration from that uses a meteor shower light for the internal electronics

  9. In this [Computerphile] video Robert Miles shows how the latest generation of chatbot AI can be glitched into doing the weirdest things
    youtu.be/WO2X3oZEJOA

  10. Vapers on Reddit noticed the blatant in Elfbar and Lost Mary disposable months ago

    I wonder if this why I have been finding more discarded Crystal brands than Elfbars recently

  11. Whether or not these disposable devices get banned, the astonishing level of that is bordering on scam territory, should be sufficient reason to stop buying these single-use

    The 550mAh (date code 221101) was found in a discarded Elfbar 600 from earlier this year.

    The 360mAh battery (date code 230417) from an Elfbar 600 I picked up from the side of a road today

  12. I've been finding many more Crystal brand disposable discarded on the street this year. They are becoming nearly as frequent as those ELFBAR 600 devices that I found so often last year.

  13. @TechNews

    Hey @[email protected]
    What would your new camera see if it took a photo of this device?
    youtu.be/Q07CTj4fUeY
    [Smarter Everyday] on measuring millisecond shutter speeds mechanically

  14. Electronics hobbyists and engineers are keenly aware that one must respect how the Earth responds to things
    youtu.be/cNPIL7rhKUw

  15. @Silversalty @arstechnica

    And with people making all manner of macro keypads and controllers nowadays to accelerate and skip over long winded GUI interactions we seem to have come full circle back to "The Mother of All Demos" (1968)

    youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY

  16. Using 7 dual (LM358) to generate PWM signals for driving a non-addressable RGB LED strip so that only one linear potentiometer is needed to sweep through the colours of the

    Project inspired by
    youtu.be/KMuTTQeQ4_c
    in which @blitzcitydiy used a microcontroller to map a potentiometer to the range of hues

  17. Three potentiometers control the duty cycle for pulse width modulation of the three colour channels of an RGB LED strip (non-addressable). The PWM signal is generated by () configured as an oscillator and 3 comparators. An NPN transistor sinks the current for each of the LED colours.

  18. Pulsating PWM using two dual configured as a fast oscillator, a slow oscillator, and a comparator whose output is the source of one LED and the sink of another LED

    No microcontroller required

  19. So glad I watched Bigclive's teardown video for the new Elfbar 600V2
    youtu.be/aPm_Sd0fCrA
    before attempting to take one of these apart myself

  20. Haven't seen a single-use device in this form factor before. Found discarded in the grass along the side of a public footpath

    Internal battery is rechargeable via USB-C but the tank is not refillable. Still has a voltage of 3.7V
    I wonder how many times it was recharged before becoming street

  21. Lipoly battery in this crushed Packman branded vape device was fully charged when I found it in a carpark last night

    There is a USB-C port for recharging. The atomizer tank was already missing so cannot tell if it was intended to be refillable. Judging from the vape brand's website it was probably disposable
    packmanbrand.com/

  22. @birnim
    Likewise vapers wouldn't want to put into their mouths something that was touched by a random stranger
    joe.co.uk/news/people-vow-neve

    We need a video of a worker at one of these factories wiping his butt with a disposable to go viral

  23. Found all these disposable devices by just walking into town and back today. Passed by a few that were little more than shattered remains in the road. Even the run overs might still have salvageable electronics -- the pressure sensor can be repurposed as a capacitive touch switch

    At this rate I'll easily exceed the number I found last year.

  24. And now Becky Stern has joined the disposable salvaging club
    youtu.be/qiUyMLdVyfI

    Although she hasn't yet suggested anything about what to do with the pressure sensing (aka capacitive touch) switches.

  25. Look at how small the battery is in relation to the size of the disposable
    1.48Wh (400mAh 3.7V)

    Might be useful should I need to replace another battery in some wireless device, assuming I can recharge it - voltage is reading very low 1.2V