Teardown of a usb flashlight / torch keychain.
This is a fairly common type of LED keyfob on ebay. It has a rotating front bezel that turns on…
Teardown of an electronic usb cigarette lighter.
I've seen these things popping up on ebay for a while, and when someone mentioned them in the comments for…
A look at the construction quality of a tiger usb charger.
Tiger is a chain of shops in Europe that sell a range of gimmicky stuff for the home. I saw…
Mini geared stepper motor test and teardown.
The little stepper motors featured in the video are readily available on ebay for just £1 (about $1.50 USD). They…
Using resistors as heaters to melt wax.
This was just a fun experiment to make a heated candle dish that gave the same effect as the Glade…
waterproof led flickering stick candle.
I get the feeling that the ebay seller listing these had just copied chunks of text from a listing for…
The rgb floodlight of disappointment.
It was inevitable that I'd buy one of these units, and having seen inside one on an Electronupdate teardown video…
3w, 5w, 7w, 9w same-range led lamp teardown.
I saw these lamps being sold on ebay and decided to get one of each to compare them internally and…
Sudden schematic of a slightly different led festoon lamp.
Although supplied in an identical box to the ES version of these festoon-style LED lamps, this one has slightly different…
Rgb led tape configuration oddity.
This is a section of the basic RGB tape that has individual red, green and blue LEDs. I'd always just…