The ORB..........

.........of Light.  Arduino powered with a multitude of LEDs within.  Sadly, it's difficult to display the entire sequence here, but the selections below give an idea.

CyberHead 2.0.............

......optimized and released. 

Consignment piece.

Cyberhead TechShaman Continuation........

............in progress.   Evolving daily.

And this one is very nearly finished.    Just a few more minor touches.

Cyber-Head Techshaman................

............still in Progress.   More to come.

A new exploration -- not really sure where this one is going, but we shall see.

The TechShaman..............

........in progress.   Currently decoupaged and gessoed.  More to come.

Line Following...........................

...............Robot.  Ordered from Banggood.com.  Assembled and it works well.  Mindless fun.

Binary ...........................

...................clock.  8-inch x 8-inch x 2-inch wooden case.  Powered by an Arduino. 

The time is:  6:47 as displayed.  If you add up the vertical rows, you'll get 06 for hours and 47 for minutes.

More...um.............

....relics....totems....artifacts....Steampunked Altoid tins.   The top one has a 'flickering candle' LED with battery, the bottom - a vacuum tube.

OMG!!!!.....................................

......artifact.   Had to have it.  Shall be the basis of something strange and wonderful...... 

b....bi.....bin.....binary...............

.......clock.   Arduino Uno powered.  Flashing vacuum tubes atop the clock to mark seconds.

At the tone...the time is:  18:48

There are LOTS of binary clock builds out 'there'.  In case you're curious, here's where I began:  http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Binary-Clock-1/

De Time....DE ..........

....TiME!    Arduino UNO with real-time clock module and LCD display all connected via I2C.

Trekking .............

......the yard.  Remounted the SainSmart Ultrasonic module to the front of the unit and it works pretty well, though now I see a need for either a servo mount (to scan side to side) or several more units mounted at 45-degrees for 'side' vision.   Next up, edge detection circuitry.

The Beginning.............

of the Robot Invasion!!!!!!!   Basic transport mechanism with the Arduino/electronics platform mounted.

3 x 3 LED...............

cube............27 independently addressable LEDs via an Arduino.

One of the better software implementations is this one:  http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Cube-and-Arduino-Lib/.

Vacuum...................

....tube amplifiers. The top image is a Bell & Howell projector audio amplifier. Lucked out in a surplus find. Dismanted the unit and sprayed liberally with DeOxit. Applied power and She Lives! The volume pot was scratchy -- but another liberal dousing of DeOxit fixed that issue. This unit needs no pre-amp, has volume and a multi-stage tone control with external speaker options. I think it'll make a great guitar amp with little modification.

The working side of the Bell & Howelll amplifier. Nice and clean.

This puppy is a tube amplifer from a 60's Capitol record player. I was asked to fix it by one of the baristas at the coffee shop I frequent. After much GOOGLE searching, I determined the 25L6 tube heaters had been powered in series with a (now missing) motor. Since the 25L6 heaters are 25v, this necessitated a 90v drop at 300 mA...but no matter what I did, I could not get the tube to fire up. Finally applied 24v to the tube heaters and found the tube was dead. Dug through my stash of old 'dead' tubes until I found some 50L6s -- same pinout, but with a 50v 150 mA heater. After a bit of trial and error, I found a 1.2K and 690 ohm 25w resistor in parallel gives me 49 volts at the heaters in operation...and the amplifer works. I very much doubt it's really suited as a guitar amp -- it definitely needs a pre-amp and the overall wattage is very low. The real issue with an old tube amp like this is that it's VERY unsafe -- there is direct connection to 120 without a transformer - so if the capacitor fails....the chassis becomes hot. Or..if the wall socket is wired wrong (I did attach a 3-prong plug to it)...the the chassis becomes hot. So...quite unsafe, but interesting to tinker with.

This has been my first foray into vacuum tube electronics since the 70s and quite a learning experience....but diverting and amusing.

New Techshaman..............

............creation in progress. Tentative title, "Speed of Thought".

The Shrine ...........

of Faith Amplification -or- "The Shrine of Saint Tesla". Complete with 'arc welder' circuitry for the top vacuum tube. lit vaccum tubes on the sides and flickering LED candles. 38-inches tall. 10-inches deep. And yes, the mili-amp meter displays the current of the 'arc welder' circuit.

The Faith.................

.......Amplifer LIVES! I near completion after 4 months of design and construction. More to come as I progress.

Dancing LEDs......

via the good old 555 & 4017 ICs. These circuits take forever to make doing point-to-point wiring.....but was going for a small circuit footprint. Constructed for a friend's in-progress Steampunk piece.