Something like a year ago I just took a cheap universal remote control that I often use and opened it up and unsoldered the IR LED. I soldered a few feet of speaker wire into its holes on the circuit board and then soldered the LED onto the other end of the wire. I mounted
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Here’s a pic of a TP3051J telephone interface chip (CODEC and Filter). Yes, a picture of the actual chip inside of the IC, after I popped the top off of it. I have a lot of them so I figured that checking one out to see what was in it would be fun. The pic
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This is from the 1980s, it’s all red LED segments or dots. I tried to find an angle where the ceiling light would not show, but because it’s a bubble lens, just about any angle had that white reflection. The specifications are available on the ‘net. The box outlined in red is one of the
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QS sent me a link to a series of Youtube videos of xmas LED light reviews. This review is on my mind right now. It’s a review and teardown of a 15 RGB LED light string from Brite Star. This is in my opinion an excessively long video at 55 minutes. I think it would
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Bill ‘Botronics‘ Sherman said he was reading a sample page from “Unscrewed” on Google Play Books. There was a note about the Phillips screw. Long ago, a guy once told me that it would be torture to change the screws and screwdrivers on their assembly line from Phillips back to blade screws. But every telephone and
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