No, not this one. The Art of Manliness gave me this idea: 22 Manly Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin Instead of any of those ideas, however, I decided to build a voltage regulator inside one of the smaller tins, so I could charge my phone (a Motorola Droid 2) or any other device that …
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A year later…
My truck is one of my ongoing projects. Already its timing belt installation, some lighting modifications, and some other things about it are up here. About a year ago I did a torsion bar crank which lifted the front of the truck about 2 inches, which made the truck look nice and level. It’s settled …
New Amplifier
It’s about time I finished this one up. About six years ago, I inherited a speaker. Then, I found it’s partner and had two speakers. (Those clothes are actually all clean, btw.) I had to repair three out of the ten drivers (one low, one mid, and one high). For a while, I ran just …
Power Supply!
I was in need of a power supply for electricity for my breadboard projects, and was looking to buy a DC bench power supply. Instead, I found someone on the internets that gave me the idea to build one out of an old computer power supply. Since there are other how-tos on the internet I …
Top 11 Albums and Some Others
What five albums most influenced my life? I don’t know about influenced… but I have been thinking about that for quite a while, and while this may be a nontraditional post for this blog I think it’s worth mentioning. I couldn’t narrow it down to five, so I picked ten that changed my life most, …
Potentially Neat Amplifier
Hooray random ideas at work! I have this old stereo in my house now, but the amplifier is broken! Until I fix it, I thought I might be able to hook up this old head unit SLASH CD player from Sue to the stereo. And I was right! The head unit in question is an …
Tackling Sue’s Exhaust?
Hello. Are you a mechanic/welder/exhaust specialist that I have asked to possibly rebuild my car’s (Sue’s) exhaust? Well, if so, here are some pictures just in case you don’t realize exactly what you are getting into. Twenty-two years and almost 200,000 miles was not kind to Sue’s exhaust. We begin our journey at the exhaust …
Transistor Organ
This was a pretty neat find. Apparently someone donated a 1971 Thomas Transistor organ to the Goodwill here. I saw it and freaked out a little bit in the store, because I’ve thought these types of organs were the coolest since playing around with them as a really little kid in church. Of course I …
Wind Power: Best When It Produces Nothing
It was recently suggested to me that I should add some commentary to my blog, in case one day in the future I wanted to be a journalist. So, considering the person who suggested it is a journalist, this will be my first venture into blog-commentary. But, keeping it in line with the style of …
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110VAC Hardwired in the Truck
I’ve decided that this post is going to be short, because the pictures should be pretty self-explanatory. I just need to get a couple notes in so I don’t forget them myself. The goal was to hardwire standard power (120V AC) on my truck’s dashboard instead of having an inverter flying around everywhere, loosely connected …