Luxeon Star V 5-Watt Royal Blue LED Video Demo
I’m a big fan of LED lighting which is why when I ordered a bunch of parts from SparkFun the other day I ordered a 5 watt Royal Blue LED by Luxeon. These 1 Watt Luxeon LEDs are discontinued and brighter stuff is available now. Up to 100 Watts or more! This LED is quite […]
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Tags: Electronics, led, Lighting, Luxeon, Video
Li-Poly Battery Burns down Lawn and Distrupts Time/Space
I’ve intentionally blown a few Lithium Polymer R/C battery packs when they have reached their end of life. Unfortunately while my Outrage XP25 2200mAh packs still power my rc helicopter, they are beginning to puff and I don’t trust the pack to not burst into flames while I’m in mid-air. To alleviate the temptation I […]
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Tags: Electronics, Lithium Polymer, Radio Control, rc
My Arduino AtmoLight/Ambilight Clone Project
I was researching a project online the other day when I came across a project on Blogspot about how to make your own Atmolight/Ambilight type setup using an Arduino Deumilanove, a ShiftBrite Shield and ShiftBar modules from Macetech and some 12v LED RGB lighting strips. It was kind of amazing as I had all the […]
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Tags: Arduino, Electronics, Light Art, ShiftBrite, Video
Long Optical Audio Cables (and optical interfaces)
I’ve been looking for a long TOSLink optical audio cable but I notice most of the consumer stuff is max 15 feet long. I really need a digital audio cable about 25 feet. I thought one of the major advantages of an optical audio cable was that optical could carry quite a long distance. Does […]
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Tags: computer, Electronics, laser, science
Replacing the SAW Filter in a 900Mhz A/V Receiver for FPV
I received some more components in the mail today. Most of them were base station equipment, all from DPCAV.COM. The items I received were the 900Mhz patch panel antenna, a dipole 900Mhz omnidirectional antenna, 2 900Mhz receivers, some Kapton tape, a bunch of batteries I ordered for my Aiptek 8800 digital camcorder and A/V input […]
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Tags: Electronics, FPV