Tag: electronics
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scanlime053 – Active Stylus Teardown
What’s inside this “active stylus” and how does it work? No spoilers 😉 Thanks to my patrons for making these videos possible.
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scanlime051 – Four Buttons
In which one button gets four stylish buddies, via forward and reverse engineering. Thanks to my patrons for their continued support.
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scanlime041 – Pineapple Slime Oscillator
Watch on YouTube or Diode Zone: Assemble the Boldport Ananas with me, in a trippy music video full of fluorescent goo and disco ball motors! This is a fun electronics kit that calmly pulses its yellow LEDs with a set of transistorized ring oscillators. Thank you so much for watching, subscribing, and sharing my videos.…
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scanlime039 – Unboxing Cameras and LEDs, USB 3 and pre-UNIX
In my live streams I’ve been inviting you to send me new reverse engineering projects at my P.O. box. In these videos, I’ll introduce a few of the items I’ve been receiving, with a bit of the mystery preserved! Thank you so much for watching, subscribing, and sharing my videos. And a special thanks to…
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scanlime032 – Early Flyer View
Tuco Flyer is actually flying now, so let’s see what it can do! This is a high-level update on where the project is at and what the next steps are. And cat! Lots of Tuco the cat. This project is open source hardware and software, you can get the code and designs on GitHub. Music…
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scanlime031 – Zoom H2
Just a quick video as I keep the equipment running: my Zoom H2 microphone was damaged thanks to some leaky batteries, but a brush and some Deoxit and isopropanol help me get it running again. Music for this episode is “Hot Drop Potato” by Jesse Spillane, licensed under CC BY 3.0 Please consider supporting me…
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scanlime030 – Why Reverse a Gimbal
Why do all this gimbal reversing? It works so nicely now, and I didn’t need to design the whole thing from scratch! Notes and tools are in GitHub: https://git.approximate.life/fygimbal.git/ https://github.com/TucoFlyer Music for this episode is “I Don’t See the Branches, I See the Leaves” by Chris Zabriskie, licensed under CC BY 3.0 Please consider supporting…
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scanlime:017 / Boldport #3, Cordwood Puzzle
Assembling the Cordwood Puzzle, an electronics kit from the Boldport Club subscription service. It’s a close look at a relaxing build with a vintage look and delightfully unique design. Check out Saar’s work: https://www.boldport.com/ This video was filmed in front of a live Internet audience. Stream archives: Dec 2, 2016: https://youtu.be/OodND7hXA-A?list=PLhbhmdpDp9xFvxH7lYiD0mnCrw4dqgasJ Dec 4, 2016: https://youtu.be/zGrPml4o_Cg?list=PLhbhmdpDp9xFvxH7lYiD0mnCrw4dqgasJ
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scanlime:014 / Boldport #2 – Superhero
Finally, another Boldport video! This time a short music video based on the Engineer Superhero kit, assembled in original form and in a variant that includes a coin cell to power the LED and a piezo button to charge the 2N7000 MOSFET gate and make the LED glow for a while. The sound track was…
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scanlime:010 / Protek B8010FD Function Generator
I had another video planned, but today the yak stack needed tending after my trusty 10 MHz signal generator started buzzing horribly. Today’s video will be a teardown, repair, and mini-review of the 2007 vintage Protek B8010FD.
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scanlime:008 / Boldport #1 – Pease
I jumped at the opportunity to get hardware in the mail from another like-minded art hacker. In this video I’ll unbox the kit, assemble it delicately, and finally I’ll have to make some squiggles and beeps with it. Link to Saar’s Boldport Club: https://www.boldport.com/club You can also hear more from Saar himself in this episode…
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scanlime:005 / Microphone Receiver
I take apart a Pyle PDWM1940 wireless microphone receiver, searching for a way to make the output less noisy. Meanwhile, I’ll be using the same receiver for filming.
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scanlime:004 / Electronic Whiteboard hacking
My friends at Tangible Interaction sent some electronic whiteboard hardware to take apart. In this video I’ll start to look at the transmitters, receivers, and communication protocol.