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Comment: Hey I finally finished mine! I made a few changes: - I used a 4060 to divide a 32.678 …
Comment: I think I was trying to take the reset signal off the lines between the BCD-7seg chip a…
Comment: Cool, thanks for the reply. That current draw is way less than I was expecting. Having…
Comment: Excellent work! Do you know what the average current draw is?
Comment: Incorrect!I am from the sunny land known as Australia.
Comment: Nice. (I get wood for sheep :-) - Never fails to make me laugh when playing Catan )
Comment: Great design, well executed and great photography too!
Comment: Ah yes, but things have changed in the last 5 AND A HALF YEARS since I posted this inst…
Comment: Nice one!You could add some info/notes to your fritzing layout to show which value resi…
Comment: Wow excellent work!I've been mucking around with a design using TTL chips like the very…
Comment: Dude!Freakin' awesome instructable. Excellent details. I have a half done design for an…
Comment: This is WAY simpler than I expect. Well explained.
Comment: Yep, interesting stuff! Sorry for the slow replies - haven't got great net access at th…
Comment: (Sorry my reply was very slow - I was on an extended holiday)No, I don't have to accoun…
Comment: Yep, you are right in how multiplexing works.BUT, the driver chip just compensates for …
Comment: Excellent work! One of the first times an Instructable has maybe included too much info…
Comment: No reference to my existing project from 4 years ago? http://www.instructables.com/id/…
Comment: Nice. Clock/time based projects are an excellent application for the low-power LaunchPa…
Comment: Sorry mate but your question doesn't make sense. Can you try re-phrasing it? Resistors…
Comment: "20 min. a day in the sun will give us the proper vitamin D we need daily, and is not l…
Comment: Nice one! I think you should explain how to identify which to wires from the stepper m…
Comment: Ah but it takes so little effort to google! The middle two pins of the usb A connector…
Comment: Nice one! I did something very similar for a Mexican themed Christmas party last year.…
Comment: Plexiglass? No way that would look as good. It'd be impossible to hand work the undersi…
Comment: Did you check out step 1? It's got a link to Altronics, which is where I got mine from.
Comment: wtf I don't think you read the description
Comment: Excellent re-use of materials.
Comment: Here's the stripboard electronics - still building the box.
Comment: I just made one - they are correct. Maybe you are confused by the units - they are give…
Comment: Dude! That's awesome. I've always been scared of dessert (especially chocolate) -based…
Comment: Got to agree with the others here, Nice idea and explanation, but you shouldn't modif…
Comment: Another satisfied customer... (yes it does look like I'm groping myself in this phot…
Comment: Great idea! Hope you don't mind some suggestions though. You should use the side view…
Comment: Congrats - this is not only a unique and powerful project, but also one of the best wri…
Comment: I got mine locally - I rang up local glass suppliers in the yellow pages. I doubt you w…
Comment: Are you saying you don't believe that sunscreen prevents cancer, or do you not believe …
Comment: "Superflux" doesn't really mean anything - it's a generic term that once was a brand na…
Comment: Very much kudos. Single sided designs can be hard! I'll definitely be using this next …
Comment: Nice one! I've been saving bottle caps (and bread clips and ring pulls) for a while no…
Comment: You should enter this project in the "Going With The Grain" (http://www.design21sdn.c…
Comment: Norry worries - sharing is caring :-)It can display any pattern you like. At the moment…
Comment: Definately custom "modules" - but really they are just a single superflux LED. No brain…
Comment: Not all clocks have electronics! A lot (especially with the cheapest ones) have a coil …
Comment: MAGIC! In all seriousness I'm not sure. I think they work by creating a 2Hz pulse, I t…
Comment: Nice one! Did you know, SOME clock mechanisms can be made to go backwards simply by pu…
Comment: Excellent work. I am in awe and jealous of your skill in designing this in 2D with no 3…
Comment: No diode to prevent back flow? When your battery is charged AND the solar panel is i…
Comment: Why not use a simple controller chip that is DESIGNED for Li-Ion batteries? The MAX1555…
Comment: No - it's NOT a sheet of conductive metal. The initial product is a sheet of fibreglas…
Comment: rak - nice; good rule of thumb.
Comment: MRE stands for? Where do you get the bags?
Comment: OK I should modify, it works BEST with diet coke - check out the wikipedia page:http://…
Comment: You should probably explain that it only works with DIET coke...
Comment: This is actually a really clever idea. Not the most practical in all situations, but ex…
Comment: True in theory you need to properly ask for the full 500mA, but a lot of USB ports will…
Comment: You need another name for resistor? 18 Ohm resistor should be a pretty universal descri…
Comment: Yep probably not a bad idea. Not too much can go wrong though if they are left in.
Comment: Excellent. This is an excellent example of how to understand something you use all the …
Comment: Excellent work. Result looks great. That's one powerful picture viewer!
Comment: No, it's a co-efficient, it's non-dimensional
Comment: Excellent work - your writing style and photography is excellent. Great instructions ar…
Comment: Or blow into it - air pressure will pop them out.
Comment: Aren't Polaroid images traditionally square?
Comment: 15 seconds? When I do that the stars have moved so far that they come out as streaks, a…
Comment: Can't say I know any household items with super caps in them - your best bet would be a…
Comment: I gave a source in Step 1, but if you aren't in Australia or NZ and therefore don't hav…
Comment: Yep, pretty much a capacitor is a capacitor in the way that they work.Of course they al…
Comment: Awesome!I found these bags too, and also wanted one. I posted about them in the forum h…
Comment: Here's the link to the full documentSony Ericsson command set (free download of .zip fi…
Comment: Nice! I can't but suggest one modification though - your phone supports serial comma…
Comment: Even though you are using a specific commercial entity, nice explanation and discussion…
Comment: Most. Phallic. Main Image. EVER.
Comment: Awesome. Inspiring for both the LED aspects but mostly for the bike design.
Comment: OK well if you do I think it would be fair to send one on to me!
Comment: Nice... inspiring me to get into skateboard design/manufacture... Would have given i…
Comment: True, I guess it depends on your view of payoff of cost and complexity against gain in …
Comment: Hmmm... although most electronics will have an electrolytic capacitor somewhere, nothin…
Comment: Nice, now let's see the finished version!
Comment: Nice! Have you seen my instructable for making a massive blanket? It's kind of simmi…
Comment: Yep you could definately add more capacitors to increase storage capacity and therefore…
Comment: Yep, they have included corners in their algorithm. 2 will affect 7, assuming the board…
Comment: I fill up my supersoaker with hot (not boiling) water, then cut away the sections of ic…
Comment: Have you ever gone for a septuple head-spin using your lucky seven leaf clover? Nice…
Comment: He can definately hit multiple buttons at once, otherwise jumping in a direction direct…
Comment: Nice one! My dog is a toy poodle, and is pitch black. try spotting that from 50 metres …
Comment: Exactly! it's a conductor, so it will conduct between the two leads to the LED. You'd n…
Comment: Heat-shrink isn't waterproof unless you buy the military-grade environmental version.
Comment: Awesome work. You NEED to have a book act as the trigger to open the door automatically…
Comment: Probably wouldn't get much of an improvement. A parabolic reflector is used behind …
Comment: It's not fixed in place! That's what the capacitor is there for, to store a charge so y…
Comment: Not likely at all, but hey, got to cover my arse! USB ports do have some form of ove…
Comment: Sure is. You can use the colour bands or a multimeter to check.
Comment: Yep you could use a variable resistor to control the brightness, but it wouldn't be a m…
Comment: Although there are some batteries that can be recharged by putting volts across them, I…
Comment: The point was to make a rechargeable key chain light. You recharge it in a USB port, th…
Comment: Nice one! excellent re-use of materials. I've also got the sheet of rubber domes fro…
Comment: 11.4 years of use - not shelf life
Comment: Why bother getting up in the morning? Also I don't think those are USB compatible or…
Comment: OK replying to myself but thinking about it I guess I could set up the grid such that I…
Comment: Sweet. That's what I was thinking, but yeah was wondering if there was a way to do it. …
Comment: Awesome project. Is the air hockey table homebuilt too? I have fantisies of making a…
Comment: Why are you bothering with Aluminium?
Comment: Too complicated - just fill it with helium then weight it down till it stays put (i.e. …
Comment: More questions! How do you manually layour traces? e.g. I want to interface to a com…
Comment: Nope, go for it. You should match the resistor to the forward voltage of you LED though…
Comment: Nice writing style! Did Toby Maquire himself decide that you shouldn't be on the se…
Comment: Awesome! I don't think I'll ever cook enough bacon to gather enough fat, but maybe saus…
Comment: Hey, if there is a commercial product out there...Money-Bandthen the instructable is va…
Comment: The capacitor already has an internal resistance of 30 ohm (see step 6), but I guess th…
Comment: Dude! Awesome! I actually like your form factor.
Comment: The 22F one is new... and not too bad a price either... they got the 55F one just after…
Comment: Hey dude! Feel free to come up say hello at a Tigers game, I'd love to speak to a fello…
Comment: Sorry I was being rhetorical... In aeronautics the first thing that you calculate th…
Comment: It always amazed me that the theoretical lift that is generated by a flat plate at any …
Comment: How about this one then? It's over 3,120lbs, 5.5ft high, 175,000 rubber bands
Comment: Awesome to the max. Thanks
Comment: OK I've never had the opportunity of playing around with one of these, but surely if yo…
Comment: After you have used the auto router, if you want to significantly change the location o…
Comment: Depending on the metal it would... it's called "work hardening". Hardness is the abilit…
Comment: Dude! Awesome! I'd looked at that ignitor heaps of times (and that whole site in genera…
Comment: Dude where did you get that AAA powered BBQ lighter? I'm searching high and low for one…
Comment: Anyone know where to get Nerf guns in Australia? Hasbro doesn't sell there here, or shi…
Comment: HELL YEAH!!!Jaycar 55F 2.5V SupercapAU$19.95 though, a bit expensive for a mucking-arou…
Comment: 55F! Sweet as! Let me know where I can get one in australia for under $10 and I'm there.
Comment: Of course you'd get a longer run time, but at the expense of size and more importantly …
Comment: The voltage drop for 2 blue LEDs would be too much, but it would be a good idea if you …
Comment: Yep the veroboard strips just continue on into the 'tag' bit that sticks out, and they …
Comment: Nice work. Full kudos. I can share your pain in regards to the "what to do with it n…
Comment: He means it required three 9V batteries.
Comment: Awesome project. Still working through it but seems like an excellent way to broadcast …
Comment: Awesome! If there is a chance of a problem occuring, your spidey-sense will tingle a…