Poundland’s halloween 2015 purple, orange and green led strings.
Since Poundland started doing modest length strings of LEDs in cold white, I've been secretly hoping they'd do them in…
Can you carbonate wine with bicarb and citric acid?
Secretly I was hoping that the mere addition of bicarbonate of soda and citric acid to a plastic bottle filled…
Everything you didn’t want to know about chinese meteor lights.
You can now buy me cake and things to take apart at:- https://www.patreon.com/bigclive OK, I'm going to confess that I…
Is the power supply in poundland’s new gu10 lamp different?
The new warmer white GU10 lamps in Poundland claim to have a higher light output than the cold white ones.…
Make your own emo health salts.
It appears that the classic "health salts" were pre-dated by a simpler fruit-salt remedy. It's very simple since it doesn't…
Inside a 9w generic ebay t8 led strip-light.
A look at the construction of a generally available LED strip-light from ebay. Actually worth it just for the hackability…
Disassembly and schematic of an arc lighter.
You can now buy me cake and things to take apart at:- https://www.patreon.com/bigclive A fairly recent arrival to the novelty…
Chased by the manx buggane at dusk.
The Isle of Man is full of fairies, witches and the attendant monsters that accompany such things. One of these…
A look inside a cheap ebay smoke detector.
You can now buy me cake and things to take apart at:- https://www.patreon.com/bigclive Part of me was expecting that these…
A look inside a solar powered led security light.
This solar powered security light came from a UK supplier on ebay. Somewhat more expensive than the usual tat I…