I'll preface this by saying that I'm an Engineering Technology student studying to be an Electronics Technician. So I'm more of the "use someone else's diagram to build it" type than I am the "engineer something out of the blue" type.
I came here last summer with a simple question when I was setting up a 555 circuit for a project I was doing. I was trying to make a model Crown Victoria with fully functional lights. The electronics ended up being a relative breeze; the actual installation of them into the car... not so much. I suck at building models, and that is what this basically became. I eventually broke several plastic lightbars (and they were $7.00 a pop), and ended up with an LED with a broken leg glued into a recessed hole I drilled. So I gave up. I didn't feel like drilling out the LED only find out what the next tedious problem was going to be. (Admittedly I do still sometimes hook up the half-finished lightbar to an astable 555/4017 circuit just to watch it flash. lol)
So this summer I'm interested in doing another project... but this time maybe not on the 1:18 scale (1.8MM LEDs are no fun to work with). As I said to start with my engineering skills aren't that great, so while my basic electronic skills are higher than average I'm not going to be building a coilgun anytime soon. I'm interested in hearing others ideas on a fun project.
The two main things I want it to be are: 1) Cheap 2) A lower-intermediate skill level.
I came here last summer with a simple question when I was setting up a 555 circuit for a project I was doing. I was trying to make a model Crown Victoria with fully functional lights. The electronics ended up being a relative breeze; the actual installation of them into the car... not so much. I suck at building models, and that is what this basically became. I eventually broke several plastic lightbars (and they were $7.00 a pop), and ended up with an LED with a broken leg glued into a recessed hole I drilled. So I gave up. I didn't feel like drilling out the LED only find out what the next tedious problem was going to be. (Admittedly I do still sometimes hook up the half-finished lightbar to an astable 555/4017 circuit just to watch it flash. lol)
So this summer I'm interested in doing another project... but this time maybe not on the 1:18 scale (1.8MM LEDs are no fun to work with). As I said to start with my engineering skills aren't that great, so while my basic electronic skills are higher than average I'm not going to be building a coilgun anytime soon. I'm interested in hearing others ideas on a fun project.
The two main things I want it to be are: 1) Cheap 2) A lower-intermediate skill level.
