December 6, 2018
Butchering an LED bulb
This light bulb (Philips 18W 6500K 2000lm 150mA 220-240V ac 50/60Hz 9290011650A) had the temerity to flicker, so it got to taste the cold HSS of my hacksaw →
Category: The Diary of Lupin Pooter
November 29, 2018
Butchering a BMO
Forgive me, BMO!
Tonight, I extracted an MTR Octopus card NFC thingamajig and implanted it in a purchased-for-this-purpose hollow BMO figure from, →
November 18, 2018
Better late than never: carbide-tipped hole saws, M35 HSS-Co step drills, and deburrer
My second batch of Bosch TM5 carbide-tipped hole saws, with a rubber band holding the packaging on the largest one closed after I opened it, three no-brand-but-putatively-M35-grade →
October 11, 2018
Today’s pre-soldering photo
The seller included the pin headers but yours truly had to stump up the 2P screw terminals.
Today's recreational soldering: some breakouts for Si4599 →
October 5, 2018
And just a few decades later…
Two lemon batteries, connected in series, can (just barely) power a red LED.
Making a lemon battery was one of the sciencey activities I encountered →
September 25, 2018
All of the really intriguing events occur unobserved
This rubber band failed in such an interesting way that I wish I'd caught it in the act. →
September 19, 2018
Flaky T-slot extruded aluminum struts
Congratulate me on removing these aluminum chips without sending any of them airborne.
The lengths of 30cm x 30cm T-slot extruded aluminum (aka 80/20) →
August 22, 2018
“They Live”, but WeLend
A Hong Kong company is running a an ad campaign in which a loan is anthropomorphized as a cute woman in shiny knee-high boots and a really short cheerleader →
August 16, 2018
That Beckett quote is defeatist.
Yes, it pleases me to believe that these four 2N3638A transistors are NOS.
This evening's tinkering session is going to involve yours truly double-checking →
August 14, 2018
But imagine it actually worked — wouldn’t that be swell?
Racked up along a checkout line at a Hong Kong CitySuper with all of the other impulse-buy junk: "Keep Memory Gum": a Japanese chewing gum (from Lotte, →
July 27, 2018
OK, WD-40 probably isn’t the best spray paint remover. But it works in a pinch!
M12 screw-on foot pads for pegboard/storage wall units that I'm adding to my workshop
I would've left the the durned things silverish—if they'd →
June 1, 2018
Bedhead systems
From left: call button receptacle, call button plugged in (button itself dangling) with red reset button overhead, and a red triangular emergency-pull →