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Strobing Electronics
Posted on February 18th, 2007 by James.
Categories: General.
Way back in the mists of time my friend Darren sent me this link to a guy who’d made a “Time Fountain” by strobing some LEDs at some dripping water. It looks pretty cool, so I thought I’d have a go at making my own one. Unfortunately his circuit uses some crazy complicated looking programmable PIC processor.. So I decided to make something a little cheaper and simpler. It all started with a cunning plan scribbled on the back on an old envelope (more…)
Fire in the Disco
Posted on February 2nd, 2007 by James.
Categories: Pinball.
The special effects on my pinball reached new heights today as some started pouring out from under my Klingon bird of prey! (more…)
Galvanised steel under ramp protector
Posted on January 28th, 2007 by James.
Categories: Pinball.
As you may recall, last Tuesday my under ramp finally cracked, after I fired the ball into the start mission hole.
At the time I was cutting up my exhaust to make a shuriken and I thought that I could use the exhaust metal to repair the under ramp. That was a crap idea, so on to Plan B! (more…)
Exhausted
Posted on January 27th, 2007 by James.
Categories: Bike.
I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted! Tee hee..
.. ok, it’s a crap joke 
.. But check it out! I’ve got a whole crap load of shiny attached to my bike 
I went for my first proper ride with the new exhaust today and I think it’s really made a difference to the power which is cool. I think it’s also a little quieter than my last exhaust.. but then I might be comparing that to the sound it was making with the whopping great rusty holes in it
Dodgy wiring and ball smashing fun
Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by James.
Categories: Pinball.
Last night all my solenoids stopped working. I checked all the fuses and everything seemed in order, then after panicing for a bit I checked the fuses again today and noticed that I’d missed one!
An obscure little one in the corner call F112 Solenoid Secondary with a bizarre 7Amp rating. It’s the only 7A fuse in the system and I didn’t have a replacement handy. I’ve ordered a set of 5 from pinball heaven, but I wanted to test everything just to make sure, so I did a bit of dodgy wiring .. I only had 5A and 15A fuse wire, so I decided to double up the 5A wire and attach it to the fuse slot: (more…)