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About I'm a former bicycle industry designer turned professional jeweler. I like working with my hands and am happiest when I'm in the shop building my creations. If you need help with your project just let me know!
Hopefully I'll have some new stuff soon- I've been super busy with multiple projects, the latest of which is here- http://multi-bot.blogspot.com Unfortunately I'm never on the forums since I just don't have the time- with three kids I barely have enough time to try and work on my own projects.
That's a nice machine you've got there, and you managed to make whilst handling three kids. Quite impressive :-) Don't worry about not being on the forums too often, I was only complimenting you on all of your instructables.
Hey Honus, I'm trying out your awesome looking Arc Reactor and I just need to know something, what are the "two copper traces cut (or etched) and couple of solder pads on the center" that you're talking about Thanks
i must say, your arc reactor is my personal favorite. i will be heading up to Colorado Plastics in the near future so i can get started on building my reactor thanks for great instructions
hey i have a question on the boba fett helmet, were could i find something to make his visor, i searched tinted black plastic on google and it said it was like 100 dollars and i was like thats not right please contact me asap because im making the helmet right now
I purchased Uncut car window tint film at $1.75 a foot, on ebay from this seller (NuSolis) Great buy , product works perfectly . And its nice and inexpensive!
I just used a clear face shield visor from a local hardware store and covered the inside of it with some stick on window tint I got from an auto parts store.
The easiest way to connect it would be to use a two way switch so that in one position it would connect the battery to the charger and in the other position it would connect the battery to the boost circuit. Are you planning on exceeding the 280mA max current input of the smaller charger?
okay yeah. cause the larger solar cell puts out 8 v and the small charger can only cope with 3 to 7 . thatnx for the help. ill show you my project once im done :0
hey man i was considering to make one of ur solar powered mini boost for a design project. i was just wondering how do you know when the lithium battery is fully charged? and is there any device that can prevent this? chwb plz cheers :)
You know when it's charged because of the little LED on the charging circuit- it will flicker when it changes over to trickle charging and then turn off. The only way I can think of preventing the battery from fully charging would to make some kind of voltage cutoff circuit- no idea how you would implement that- sorry!
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Hey Those are some incredible costumes you made. I can really tell that you put a lot of hard work and sweat into them. I hope to be able to create a few, but all credit to you of course! If you have never considered becomeing a prop designer or costume designer you should because you are excellent at it. I hope to be able to create both of the guns for you MIB costume and perhaps the ghostbusters one if I ever get the cash. You and your costumes and ideas have been a real inspiration and i hope that you will continue to put your masterpieces on instructables.com. Also, just as a suggestion, if you are into anime or manga it would be awesome if you had costumes for that up. Well over all terrific job! Keep up the work!!!! thanks, Ryan
Thanks- glad you like it! If you need help designing a bike let me know and I'll help out as best as I can. I used to work in the bike industry as a designer. What do you mean about the epic? I used to own an epic but that was a looooong time ago.