September 3, 2011

Name the Thing Contest - 185

The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not hidden in a drawer. 🙂 I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it should. This

DIY Guitar Pickup Winder

Our friend Pete Mills sent in his latest project, it’s a DIY Guitar Pickup Winder. There have been quite a few DIY Winders build before but this one automates quite a lot of the steps. “Here is a feature list: -Pickup Winding with turn counting, RPM, ETA and auto stop -Stroboscopic guitar tuner -Ohm meter for coil resistance measurement -Gaussmeter for measuring polarity and magnetic flux density of pole pieces