April 24, 2010

Working on a few projects involving electronics- I know there's a skill gap in electronics that I could close a little by doing some fun kits I ordered online. One of them is the IceTube by Adafruit, but I unfortunately broke the nixie tube, in the middle of trying to make it work. I also think I messed up the chip inside by soldering it when it was plugged in- I was trying to fix the numbers on the display since there was extra stuff showing up, and all of a sudden it started showing only 8's "88888888." So I guess I'm learning by mistakes. I also made an iPod charger that fits in an Altoids tin, but it doesn't work with my iPod touch (yet) I think a resistor has to be replaced with one with the correct value. It's called the Mintyboost.

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