After looking around and doing a bit of research, I found an article about an interesting DIY robotic arm that could actually play chess. The system, developed by Norris Labs, uses a Lynxmotion AL5D robotic arm to grab pieces, but does not rely on th...
A robotic dog can be made from cardboard. Unlike a real dog, “K-9” does not need to be fed and does not go to the restroom in the house. Athough it is not real, it acts like a real dog. It can be programmed to wag its tail if you get near, o...
Pretty cool! We modified circuits inside a miny battery-powered sword/light-saber. First we took out the two main screws and studied the different components of the toy. There was one speaker, and LED, a green circuit-board, two lithium batteries, and a t...
Amazing! There was one special bettery among the hundreds in our room. My partner and I assesesed the voltage (V) of the battery before lunch. It was 2.68 v. We then checked after lunch and it had increases by point 7 V. Then the real fun started. We ne...
Today, we dissasembled battery-powered plastic toy swords. We observed the internal circuits, and noted the components. Inside, there were two batteries, a circuit board, a speaker, a LED, and a button/switch. We did a bit of circuit bending by atta...
We made different circuits and experimented with it. Then we broke apart the light swords and made different things with them. You hooked on the potentiometer and twirled it around. When I pressed the button on the toy it made softer and louder sound depe...
(Led Lights) Open screws. Hook wires to components to make noises. Hook more LED lights for fun-ness. Best part: Noises don’t end if you wire the wires to the small metal componets and the board. THis bypasses the switch! The End
We disassembled a simple light saber toy by removing 3 screws. We attached a potentiometer with alligator clips and tried to change the sound made. We worked with several components and attached the clips to different places to get different results. We...
Today we took apart a small toy sword. We were able to circuit bend it, or modify it, so that we could change the sound and dim the light with a potentiometer. We also were able to skip the switch in a way so that the circuit was always closed. Circuit be...
OK. So I’ve been working on this all day. The Light Flash. Not Flashlight, Light Flash. It uses 3 1.5v batteries to make one 4.5v battery. It is an open circuit. When you complete the circuit the red LED will light up. It is in a small cardboard cas...
Today was a fun and exciting day, I learned how to rewire components from a cheap chinese toy. We opened a light saver type thing and re wired everything to make it do a differnt task. I added 2 more lights to the circuit and made it jump the switch. So...
Today we took a small toy apart and circuit bended by attaching a potentiometer to turn the noise and LED on and off. I was able to identify all the parts of the circuit. There was a switch, a red LED, a speaker, a wire, two batteries, and a circuit b...
TodayI took apart a small toy lightsaber that flashed lights and made different noises. I took a potentiometer and a couple of aligator wires to change the pitch of the sounds, bypass the on switch, and also turning the sound on and off without the b...
Today I got to hack a small toy sword that lights up and makes noises. when I opened it up I attached a potentiometer and bent the circuit and made cool sounds. I also learned about many terms of circuits and stuff. I had so much fun, doing this makes me...
We worked with Lightsaber toys. These are battery-powered, simple electronic items. We opened up the plastic chassis and removed all the different components. We applied the knowledge and formulas we learned into assesing the model. There was a circuit bo...
We did circut bending and it was fun. I thought it was cool that we made it change sounds. Circut bending is puting wires on the thing and changing the sounds and hacking it. We used a toy lightsaber. We had to take it apart first though.
Today we learned about resistors, LEDs, capacitors and circuit bending through the best type of learning: hands-on. We tested the resistances, voltages, and currents of resistors, batteries and LEDs and learned several tricks and equations that help wi...
Today I learned how to circuit bend. Circuit bending is changing how many electrons flow into the circuit witch allows the circuit to change sound or the way the led lights up. I used a toy light saber to do circuit bending with and took apart the toy ...
DIY Robotics has been quite interesting in the first day. I had no real knowledge of the basics of electrical engineering before today, other than the ones covered by high school physics. At the beginning, all the information was rather intimidating, but ...
Today we learned about resistors, LED’s, circuit bending and more. We learned by doing everything hands on style. My group and I where circuit bending these toys and connecting each of our toys to make a bigger toy. The toy was a sound maker ...
Zombie Battery Update- We sandwiched the Zombie Battery between two normal ones and we observed that the Zombie consumed the energy from both the normals. The normals had decreases each 0.25, and the Zombie went up 0.5 V. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...
Today was a very fun and exciting day. We learned some of the basics of circuits and their manipulation, and we used hands-on activities to learn how circuits work, and a few of their different components, including power source, LED’s, wires, resis...
I have a brought RYOBI or what’s called a drill! I can’t wait to see what its inside is going to look like.
Today, I opened a CELL PHONE! I found out how they work and what is at it’s core. The main thing i found out was: What battery it uses How big the LCD is What capcitators it uses How a vibrator works How much it costs to build a phone exactly Now ...
Today I took a cellphone apart and found some interesting parts: the front cover, the battery, a circuit board, the buttons, the screen, a speaker, and the micro-vibrator. I really enjoyed it and I hope to put these parts to good use on my junkbot.
Today I broke apart an old cell phone. My main goal was to find a micro vibrator. I took apart layer after layer of plastic and circuitry to only be disappointed. I did not find a vibrator. Still, hacking into the cell phone was fun since I liked lo...
today we took apart stuff. we took apart the stufff we brought in. I brought in a cell phone. i thought it was intersting. it had a lot of parts in it i didnt know cellphones had that many parts. some parts in it were the display,the key pad you could h...
This is the second day I have been here at fab labsDIY robotics, today we got to bring in our own stuff to hack into. I brought a computer in but I just hacked into two of the things my friend Gavin brought in. Then after doing a bit of hacking, one of t...
We began by removing the basic components of the cellphone. First we removed the battery, and took off the casing. After that, we started to use the screw driver to remove bolted down components. It required the use of a star head. We were able to see t...
First, I removed the battery. Next, I took out all the screws from the Nokia Phone and took off the casing, thus revealing the circuit boards. I then used the screwdriver to remove components that were nailed down. Next, I carefully extracted the boards...
Today I took apart a cellphone. At the beginning it was hard to pry it open but, Mr. Toni showed me how. I used the flat end of a screwdriver to pry off the top. underneath there was another cellphone case. I unscrewed 4 screws and popped it off. Undern...
I never thought that it would be so hard to open up an iPod. Apparently it has a seal on the cracks and the top half has clips that connect it to the bottom half. I was trying to fix the classic because the select button was jammed open. After I pried it ...
Today I brought my old laptop and “hacked” into it. It was very fascinating to see all the different type of componets that go into a computer. I figured out what each part did and how it did it and also learned all of the names. I took apart ...
