October 10, 2006

Flaming LED Skull
DIY Hacks

Scary Terry has come up with a Flaming LED Skull project that would be good to greet all your guests on Halloween. Terry also links to this site as a good flaming skull resource. “I came up with my version of the Flaming Bucky. Instead of mounting the fan inside the head, I use a 4″ fan mounted near the ground and PVC pipe to direct the air into the

Hall Effect Coil Winder
Electronic Hacks

Counting winding turns is made easy with this project that uses a hall effect device. “Magnets on a spinning thing near a hall effect latching switch chip make pulses that a counter counts to count the turns the spinning thing spun. Operation: A latching hall effect switch turns ON when it sees one pole of a magnet. Pull the magnet away and it stays ON. When it sees the other