Hacking a magic pink insect-sucking 220v death ball.
It seemed so simple. A nice safe insect catcher that lured naughty insects in with its tantalising blue light and…
Cheapest of the cheap led actually tungsten! fairy lights.
I wanted to see how low the price and quality could go with the strings of LED lights, so I…
Testing some 2015 battery multicolour led strings.
There seems to have been a sudden bias towards using phosphor based LED colours in Xmas lights this year. Not…
10w led blunty moving head disco light teardown.
I finally got round to doing a proper test and then complete teardown on this light, which looks a bit…
Inside an eco obd2 chip tuner fuel saver.
I'm not sure about this thing at all. The idea is that you plug it into your cars OBD2 diagnostics…
How pir modules work and using them to control led strings.
Thanks to the wonders of the Arduino, there are a load of useful electronic modules available on ebay at ridiculously…
Boosting the battery capacity of a rechargeable work light.
It seemed a shame that the little 10W LED work lights only had two cells when there was seemingly space…
Create smoke from your hands. with hidden gadgetry
I was contacted by a magician for technical advice regarding a manufactured smoke effect that was proving to be unreliable.…
Inside a laser star effect projector and mods.
These effects aren't new, but I thought it was time to take a look at a current model and see…
Chinese e-stop button teardown. all forty bits of it!
Thanks to China's heavy industry, eBay is awash with just about every industrial control component you could desire. OK, not…