The Hobby Thread

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And down the rabbit hole we go...

--A

[JIkj fjds j]

1/2 LED Timer Circuit.



This circuit assembly is far bulkier than I'd anticipated.
My own fault for deviating from an original layout design.

I'm posting this picture because I saw something interesting
that I'd all but forgotten about. Solder patterns!
For one's self, I see the letter R.

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I've got a thing for circuit boards. My next tattoo will be a 1/4 sleeve circuit board done in a tribal style...once I can find somebody who can design it to my taste.

--A

[JIkj fjds j]

I used to collect tattoo books and mags as source material for artistic symbolism for ink drawing. I'd never seen circuit board tats before and had to look online for some examples. Wow! Very interesting.



Rocket Ship Update

I must have thought up a hundred reasons for ditching this idea.
Then I found a toy Super Hornet fighter jet that had flicker lights.
The grey box contains three lithium watch batteries. Which has now
powered up and illuminated my imagination to a new and dizzy height.

The original circuit for a red, yellow, green, led traffic lights reminded me of a quirky star cluster in astronomy,
situated in the Constellation of Crux (The Southern Cross). The star cluster is named the Jewel Box and it's three brightest stars are called the Traffic Lights.
Named so because of their colours of red, yellow and green. In what I might even imagine to be the Joule Box of my flicker lights.

[Linna Heartbooger]

The three shawls are awesome; my favorite is the brown one, for its cool spiralley folds 'n stuff.

The last one reminds me of a butterfly. Actually a specific type of butterfly, but I don't know the proper name for it and Google wasn't helpful.

Is it large, and with yellow-and-black stripes?

Heh. Thanks for the opportunity to engage in my hobby of following links to buffalo pictures/art.

Oh. And this amused me.
As did the pyramid from a deconstructed FedEx box.
Is a good nerd hobby.

Rune- Feel free to play with the pictures.

And down the rabbit hole we go...

[aliantha]

Thanks, Linna!

Rune, those lights look cool.

[JIkj fjds j]

Thanks, Linna!

Rune, those lights look cool.

I spent hours the other night filing out a piece of plastic to hold the wing assembly in place. Hours! And all the while I kept thinking of Homer Simpson's book shelves, and if and when my rocket ship sits proudly on its stand will a knock at the front door be enough to reduce the thing to a heap of scrap! <sigh>

[Sorus]

Never been good at building complicated models. I think I use too much glue. I used to like painting the preassembled (which is apparently not a word, with or without a hyphen ) D&D type miniatures. I had some nice ones, but lost them all in the move. I thought I'd saved my favorite, but apparently not.

The three shawls are awesome; my favorite is the brown one, for its cool spiralley folds 'n stuff.

The last one reminds me of a butterfly. Actually a specific type of butterfly, but I don't know the proper name for it and Google wasn't helpful.

Is it large, and with yellow-and-black stripes?

I want to say it's purple and tan, but I can't find any similar pictures, so maybe it only exists in my head.

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Lights looking good Rune.

I used to cast and paint tin soldiers when I was a kid, which was fun. I think my brother sold all of my moulds for drug money while I was out of the country though.

--A