30th Aug 2010
Constant current assembly

LED Flashlight with 1w Constant Current Drive

A constant current LED driver was implemented to power a 1 Watt Cree P4 XR-E providing roughly 85 Lumens @ 350 mA. The constant current SMPS was based on the...

25th Aug 2010
desk lamp bottom

9 Watt LED Desk Lamp

A desk Lamp was realized with a 9w LED module, a salvaged Pentium slot heatsink and an AtMega 8. Two switch mode supplies were used, one to provide 5v for...

21st Aug 2010
turtle board inlay

CNC Cutting board inlay

On short notice I was requested to make a turtle inlay into a cutting board. The source image was clipart provided by Google, polished with a bit of Photoshop, added...

19th Aug 2010
windpov turbine

WindPOV Weather Station

A wind turbine powered weather station displaying temperature, humidity and wind speed by persistence of vision using 8 white LEDs along a wing tip. The turbine blades were cut from...