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It's a surface-mount component, meaning that it was originally designed to be soldered directly to pads on a printed circuit board (PCB).

(Devices with "legs" are known as "through-hole"...

There's always the Lamina RGB Atlas, if its voltage requirements don't scare you, and you don't mind paying for a green emitter you're going to wind up not using...

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I tried this once, using Krylon Looking Glass paint, which is specifically designed to be sprayed on the back of a clear piece of glass to turn it into a mirror. The results were abysmal.

I tried...

Plus those of us who may live in points far west, but can trace our immediate ancestry back to the Iberian peninsula. (My father was born in Calahorra, and grew up in Madrid.) :D

Saludos!

I know a couple of folks at Apple who might have some ideas; I'll ask.

Just to make sure that I understand correctly: what matters most is that individual files' blocks be sequential and...

You could do that. Or you could post detailing what it is you're confused about, and we can try to help you. :-P

Ergh. Probably not. I just did what I should have done before shooting my fool mouth off, and checked the datasheet for the BuckPuck.

While the REF pin does indeed provide 5V, it's only guaranteed...

How exactly do you propose to make a resistor act as a voltage regulator?

If you attach one leg of a one-megaohm resistor to the positive lead of a 7.2-Volt power supply, you will still measure a...

True so far.



Ah. Right idea, but slightly wrong approach.



As far as driving LEDs goes, BuckPucks are current regulators, not voltage regulators. LEDs differ from a lot of other...

I assume you're talking about something like eLabs' EDE2208. This subject actually came up recently in another thread.

(Note that the EDE2208 is really just a very basic microcontroller programmed...

What the heck. I'll give it a whirl.



Heh. What is it with the wimmens and the purple? A female friend I'm building a saber for is equally taken with blades at the pink-purple end of the...

I cut a Heiland-like shape out of sink tube using a Dremel. Being sink tube, it was considerably thinner than the canonical Heiland, but the principle was the same.

Getting the shape right was...

Is the taper toward the tip of the emitter shroud, giving it a slightly teardrop shape, intentional?

Like the momentary-to-latching trick, this should be a fairly easy job for a cheap and simple microcontroller. Watch an input pin, and remember the last state you saw it in. When its current state is...

I've had good luck with Clearphane brand transparent wrap, which I bought out here in California from Michael's.

From what I can tell, the Clearphane stuff is slightly thinner than the material...

D'oh! Actually, you just made me realize that I knew the answer to my own question all along, had I only had the presence of mind to realize it. Thanks for the nudge. :)

The current to power the...

In a word, yes.

This sort of problem is easily handled by a small microcontroller. Watch for a momentary signal on an input pin, and flip the state of an output pin every time you see one. Easy,...

My guess is that it's got less to do with lumen rating per se than with the refractive index of different colors. Different wavelengths of light are bent to differing when passing through same...

Laugh while you can.

Luxdrive is in the process of rolling out stars that are, form-factor-wise, compatible with previous members of the Luxeon line, and can pack up to three Rebels on a single...

Ohms are a measure of resistance -- how much something resists the free flow of current. The worse a conductor of electricity something is, the higher its resistance. The better a conductor it is,...

For making emitter shrouds and similar accents, I've used some PostScript programs I wrote myself. Print, cut out the shape, tape to sink tube, trace with Sharpie, and Dremel away.

I have programs...

Ultra's tips, which can be purchased separately, use a reflective material that is, as far as I can tell, not transmissive. The trick is that the reflective disk is slightly smaller than the inner...

It's true that the stock Maul blades are slightly too large to fit into converted holders, but yes, if you sand down the stock blade, it will fit. That's what I did with mine. (Though I have a fair...

"Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Tai Quan Leap. Approach me that you might see."

I have loved that skit for ages; the World of Warcraft rendition is a nice touch.

You will learn patience. :D