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  1. donkey

    Joule thief light

    will get mongrel shark on later to check it, he made me one using a cheap solar panel its an awesome project now using a full AA battery is great, BUT try a dud. you can re-use old batteries then
  2. donkey

    Joule thief light

    nice, is there a question or is this just a project log you wanted to show us?
  3. donkey

    Beginner question?

    could be bad connection too. also I see you are using a 1/4watt resistor..... what value?
  4. donkey

    Clock for I2C LCD, I2C DS1307

    lol steve, its actually still a little of. arduino themselves state its based on C with C++ elements, so is somewhere in the middle
  5. donkey

    Clock for I2C LCD, I2C DS1307

    oh an also can you link me to the libraries you have. jimmy jo likes programming for his hiw rtc his way and jimbo jones likes programming for his. arduino uses a loose translation of C and as such a simple device can have 20 libraries all named the same thing but slightly different making it...
  6. donkey

    Clock for I2C LCD, I2C DS1307

    ok after bending my head again and googling your fault I found a nice little page that explained something that made sense to an extent, then I had to go looking. ok first rule of arduino is don't talk about fight club... wait all kidding aside if you type the error into google, google usually...
  7. donkey

    ? on wires to use for headphone repair

    got mine from $2 store. used the 3metre extender and cut it down
  8. donkey

    ? on wires to use for headphone repair

    its worked everytime I have done it (5 headphones so far) you have to know your wires though mono headphones are 2 wires stereo 3. the 3 wires are ground, left and right, getting them wrong means one of the following will happen, neither work (put ground somewhere weird) one works (ground is...
  9. donkey

    ? on wires to use for headphone repair

    http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/like/221309420537?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=107 THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE I would find a nice length of this stuff and cut it down to lengths I want. soldering is only on the speakers then or you could get some heatshrink and splice the...
  10. donkey

    Comedy Thread

    ever been tired of someone touching your tags on damaged equipment? found a new tag that works [ Mod Edit: there we go :) I think cuz you linked to the site rather than uploading the image ? ]
  11. donkey

    Help, Guidance, and/or Ideas to convert Lenovo a3000 to a3000-h

    uhm wow..... this will take a lot of hassle finding what to add and take out...
  12. donkey

    Looking for a small, low rpm, higher torque motor. Help please?

    A) it does exist, but potentiometer is extremely silly. the ways a pot works is its a resistor limiting (it could be both but am guessing) voltage..... could be current... anyway whichever it is the way it works is a voltage(or current) is fed in and then the pot (which is a resistor) downgrades...
  13. donkey

    USB ownership?

    @Scotophor I just stole it from google images lol @KrisBlueNZ I think you are right. as long as you don't say its USB it should be ok. you could possibly say its USB compliant, but not USB registered.
  14. donkey

    USB ownership?

    ok for starters copyright is not for books, its for intellectual property. so the device itself will be patented but the idea is copyrighted. hence you can't use someone else's idea to make money secondly when you say modify the USB size but not its layout then you might need to receive rights...
  15. donkey

    Thief detector alarm circuit

    PIR is ok have found ways around it, but try to remember that as with all security systems they are to make the job harder for people to enter not to stop them all together. to stop people getting at your precious materials place them in the centre of the sun, build a defence matrix with...
  16. donkey

    Making a Touch Sensitive Suit

    http://www.siongboon.com/projects/2007-11-29_touch_sensor/ go down to section 2. simply wrap someone in al foil then when they touch someone it will be detected. the issue is it won't detect if the touch clothes of a person to my knowledge. you can try capacitive touch but that also requires...
  17. donkey

    Comedy Thread

    just to keep with my computing for the time being here are a 2 lil jokes for you. ever looked at someone and thought "the hardware is impressive but the software is still in Beta."? by opening this message you have you have received the silly virus. this virus is now capable of removing all...
  18. donkey

    New toys

    @bigone5500 wait for the Leonardo dude... then you can plug things up to your comp for real time fun. am making a game centre soon using it.... to date people have made 128 keypad with 6 axis and 4 POV hat switch...... for what I don't know but if there is a game this can't play then I will be...
  19. donkey

    Peltier cell beer cooler

    LAUGHING SO HARD RIGHT NOW. I HAVE NEARLY ALL OF THAT STUFF FOR MY AIR CON. AM MAKING A SWAMP COOLED/AIR CON cos I am lazy I am not uncapping the above btw lol. anyway the peltier itself is a tile. it takes a few minutes to get back to room temp BUT if you put something on it like a beer and the...
  20. donkey

    Peltier cell beer cooler

    Ledwardz any update?
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