A Beam That Wouldn’t Light
In preparation for the Sola(r)Dex I needed to find a circuit that would charge a capacitor with a solar cell and when the charge reached a threshold turn on an output.
Sola(r)Dex Final
What do you do with all those trading cards you have lying around your house? I put them in boxes and forget about them. But the artwork is cool, I wish there was a away to display them… Enter the Sola(r)Dex
Sola(r)Dex
The concept of the Sola(r)Dex is to combine a solar panel (photovoltaic panel, PV), a DC motor, capacitors wired in parallel, an analog circuit with MOSFET as a switch, and a cylindrical carriage to randomly cycle through a set of card.
PenduLight, not so final form
The PenduLight, a journey form inception to artifact.
It costs what?!?, to run a server.
The TL;DR of it all is about $21.00 a month. Now the questions really is how did I get to that number.
Pendulight,…we have a problem
The misalignment between the arms causes the tension of the bearings to be very off creating binding for half of the rotation and looseness on the other half of the rotation.
Pendulight
Update to previous post, new name- PENDULIGHT. Includes animations and BOM.
Lite-ulum
The basic concept is to capture the path of the plumb using an LED and a long exposure from a dSLR.