CD robot V 2.0! Adding serial control to an old scsi cd duplicator.
September 28th, 2009 · 7 Comments
My newest project involves reincarnating a very old (1998) cd duplicating robot. It is a DTP-1000 that was originally SCSI only. Due to the fates smiling down upon me I was able to pick it up on ebay for $11. I bought it intending to put an arduino in the place of the control board [...]
Tags: cd changing robot · general geek · osx · robots
USB Pumpkin light
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
So my girlfriend really loves halloween, and I love her, so I made her a tiny jack-o-lantern with a usb light. Super simple, I just cut an old usb cable up, pulled out the red and black wires, used a LED resistor calculator (usb provided 5v) Then I soldered in the resistor, heat shrunk it [...]
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