OK. I have now invented the Light Flash Mini!! It is smaller and more portable than the Light Flash. It now comes in the color Magenta. It has the same design and light power as the Light Flash but it is just smaller.
today we had to hack into electronic devices. Ihacked into a cell phone a game controller and a disc drive. I took apart the phone and the control very fast but it took me the whole class to take apart the disc drive but i finally did it and finished.
Today, we took apart various electrical devices. I wound up with a Samsung phone, and proceeded to take it apart. Through the proccess, I discovered, among things, that phones can be virtually impossible to take apart without breaking anything apart. ...
I’m saying hi to the world. Hello everyone. Hi, how is it going? I’m fine. What about you? Please respond everyone.
So far, today in DIY Robotics has been much more interesting than yesterday. The reason for this is that we were able to work much more hands on and more freely. Yesterday, we played with very simple electronic toys, but today, we were able to rip apart m...
Today we were hacking junk that we don’t use anymore. I hacked a cell phone from like a century ago. the cellphone was big and chunky. When i went inside the cell phone i saw the LCD screen, the microphone, the speaker the circuit boards, th...
Today I took apart an old cell phone among other simple electronics. I learned about the parts it uses and how it works and noticed qualities of its parts. Most are surface-mount. It can have a vibrator, a capacitor, and a screen. Because it is a worki...
Today we brought in junk from our houses to hack. Mostly everyone got to hack a phone, though. The things I brought to hack were: headphones, an old cell phone, an mp3 player/voice recorder, and a VCR. I also brought in a toothbrush, which I am told...
Today, we brought different things in from home for us to hack. Many of the kids here brought a box-full of broken, old, or simply not wanted electrical gadgets, but I couldn’t really find anything that I could risk getting bricked, so I settled for...
I documented all the steps I took in dissassembling my Ryobi Drill. Here they are! Press ctrl and scroll up to zzom in.
We just finished totally demolishing an already not working printer. It was difficult to avoid the many capacitors. Although it was greasy, dusty, and difficult, the printer was taken apart.
This afternoon I broke apart a printer. It was really tough because of the hood over the printer. Luckily Teacher Toni was able to use his awesome skills to help us. In the end, my team was able to take out most of the screws and get a couple of good ...
Today I took apart a printer and made a “robot”. The robot was made out of a lopsided fan that stood on crayons and when we turned it moved around. As with the printer we took it a part and got to explore it so we can make a printing robot tha...
we dissasembled a printer and saw all of its circuit boards.
Today, I took apart a perfectly unusable phone. First I took off the battery compartment and the battery. I started pulling at random places and much later I took of the keyboard. Then a teacher helped me take off the annoying 3 bit screws…….I...
We broke open a DVD player and saw the different components. The way we broke the player and hacked into it will not be of any interest to you. (Hint: The sledge-hammer method.) We saw many capacitors, resistors, and batteries, all varying in size and col...
Yesterday, me, Yusuf, Ashwin, and Rahul built a robot out of a plastic LED fan. The legs were markers and the fan had three out of its seven blades cut off, which created a vibrating motion, allowing the robot to move, and powered it with a nine-volt bat...
Yesterday, my team and I built a robot out of a blue LED fan and crayons. What we did is we cut 3 blades of so it would be unblanced and have a vibrating motion. Then we attached 4 crayons to it so it would have legs. Atleast thats what i thought at first...
We created a robot that was able to draw by combining several components. One of the things we did was connect a fan to a battery. We used a nine volt battery. We then strung rubber bands through the edges. We added crayons and later markers with those ...
we made a drawing with a robot made out of a computer fan we cut off 3 of the fan blades to disable it and make it vibrate but ours only drew for a while then stop because the crayons got dull.
Yesterday, the squiggle bot teams got to hack into pieces of eletronics. Me, Ashwin, Yusuf, and Rahul hacked into a large printer formerly in Ashwin’s possession. We spent a long time figuring out how to remove the main outer casing, and when finall...
Yesterday we also took apart a printer. It was messy because of the ink, and many of the screws would not come out. We also had troubles getting the top off. Whoever owns it will probabaly not get it back. At least not in a working condition.
Yesterday I made a squiggle bot using a computer fan, rubber bands, markers, and a batter with wires. Making the squiggle bot showed me how simple a robot could be to still have a function. Making the bot was fun because I was completely surprised on ...
Yesterday, I made vibrational robots with Ben, Katerina, Nicolas, and I. They were a fan that lit up and it was run on a 9v battery. Then we put highlighters on it with rubber bands. After that we cut off 3 of the blades on the fan to make it wobble. Fi...
Yesterday, on Tuesday, all the kids in DIY robotics got into groups and were given computer fans. After attaching markers or crayons onto the sides of the fans and cutting off half the fan blades we created drawing robots!!! Then after placing the robots ...
I brought in my old printer that wasn’t working. It was a multifunction MP 500 with many features. It was difficult removing the casing, but when we had done that, we were able to see the hundreds of components that the printer consisted of. Th...
Yesterday, my team and I hacked into a printer. We weren’t completly done but we got pretty far. There were alot of hidden screws and it took us long to get inside it. Mostly because we didnt relize that we had to pop open the plate. However we fina...
Yesterday we made a squigglebot. It was basically a small fan with markers on the corners. THree of the blades were cut off though. This was to make it uneven. It worked.
we took apart a printer yesterday. we hacked into it and there were alot of diffrent parts in it. i had fun doing it and i got ink all over my hands. some parts in the printer are gears,circut boards and other parts. we are going to use some of the parts...
Today, we opened up an old HP inkjet printer. After struggling over the outer shell and numerous hex screws, we finally got to the internal components with the help of Toni. We found numerous circuit boards and mechanical components, and encountered a...
On the 19th, we worked with computer fans to create simple robots that could draw. We started out by attaching markers to the fan, and modified the power cables to accept a 9-volt battery. We removed some fan blades to put the fan off balance, and ...
After lunch we built robots that were able to draw. Here are the steps we did to make the robot. 1.Get a battery and a battery holder that plugs into the fan. Get a fan. 2.Cut and strip the wires of the fan. 3.Connect the battery holders wires to the stri...
Today I disected a computer. There are so many parts, they were all so interesting. Like in my cellphone post I am very excited to build a junkbot with these awesome parts.
We connected an LED lighted fan to a 9-volt battery. We made sure not to stick it on our tongues. We then put four rubber-bands through the four corners of the fan and connected them with four markers. We took of the caps of the markers and turned the fa...
we are going to make a junkbot. i am going to use a lot of parts like led lights,clamps and lots of other stuff. we are going to be working in groups my idea is to make a junkbot with arms and legs hands and feet. i will try to make it walk. here is a im...
