Author Archives: Jason Hotchkiss

Mikepea at BuildBrighton is building a Scalextric setup with a difference! One of the many features we’re thinking about is a POV display on the roof of a car which will plot out a graphic image as the car moved round the track. The first test was to s… Continue reading →

Will and I trying out the sensing and early version of MIDI handling on one half of the table.Video by Will Nash. Will’s site is athttp://www.willnash.co.uk Continue reading →

I thought it was about time to give an update on the MIDI ping pong table sensing stuff. I’ve spent quite a lot of time on it, been through a few iterations of the hardware, and learned a lot! I started this as a total newbie as far as analog electroni… Continue reading →

Well, without too much pain, its just about working! Here is how I went about it, which might help you if you want to make one yourself…When you pick a drive to use, make sure it has four conductors going to the motor (“Y configu… Continue reading →

I picked up a few faulty laptop drives cheap on ebay to take to bits and use for POV projects. I haven’t finished them yet, but have been tinkering over time and will post my progress as I go.For the first one I wanted to put a row of SMD LEDs on the p… Continue reading →

Just starting this project, which again uses a 2.5″ laptop drive.Last year I made a POV “slot” clock on a HDD platter, inspired by other peoples projects I saw online. Around the same time saw an excellent project on YouTube where someone had made a di… Continue reading →

A while back I did a “midi conversion” of a couple of Stylophones (The original analog model). I did this by removing the Stylophone electronics and leaving just the stylus, keyboard and resistor ladder. Using the keyboard as a voltage divider its then… Continue reading →

This is a DIY project to create a flashing christmas card based on a 555 timer. I did a project like this many moons ago at school, and when my local hackspace, Build Brighton, were thinking of seasonal electronics projects we could offer in workshops … Continue reading →

This is a DIY project to create a flashing christmas card based on a 555 timer. I did a project like this many moons ago at school, and when my local hackspace, Build Brighton, were thinking of seasonal electronics projects we could offer in workshops … Continue reading →

This post is about my ongoing project to do fast 2D sound location on a ping pong table, this is some ideas I’ve been having and wanted to share – since I need some help!Ok here’s the problem… we have a rectangular area ABCD and somewhere in that are… Continue reading →