Electronics

Many people find that my skills in electronics are strange, considering that I am a member of the counterculture. Somehow they don't think goes along with the back to nature bit. But when you consider that electronics happens to be the major tool that I use to do my art, it makes all the sense in the world.

My electronics work involves much more than computers. I actually started with sound systems and took up computers later when I realized what a useful tool they were in the late 70s. I would have to say that the area of electronics I am best at has to do with communications. First is a list of my most recent electronics projects that I thought would be of interest.

A four watt blacklight that you can run off of 6 Volts.
Simple LED flasher circuits of various kinds.
More powerful light chaser circuits and how I build them.
How to make the light strings for the chaser circuits.
Line voltage light controller kits I have built.
Light systems for the line voltage light controllers.
4-channel sequences for light chaser circuits so they'll do much more than just chase.
Programmable light chaser circuits using microcontroller chips.
Available lighting types for use with the controllers.
A solar powered camping lantern.

Next is a list of useful information for electronics projects.

Calculating resistor size for light emitting diodes.
Hole sizes for various electronic componets.

I also have a page of links to all my favorite electronics suppliers and sites to download data sheets. This is a work in progress, so stay tuned since I will be constantly adding information.