Morse Tone Generator

I slapped this together in about an hour or so. I found it on Instructables by user frickelkram.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Morse-tone-generator-low-power-CW-beeper/

It's a cool setup with some transistors in there to keep the power usage low. I never used transistors before so I had a little trouble figuring out how to wire it all up. Once I got it, I drew up a schematic that made it all kind of obvious.

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The picture shows how the pins are laid out (double check your datasheet to see if it matches). The schematic symbol kind of confused me a little. So I drew it as my transistors looked just so I could get it straight.

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Based on a work at www.instructables.com.

Sherman Tank in HD

I made a short stop-motion video to test out the HD capabilities of my webcam. It does pretty good but I had a problem finding a (FREE) video editor to maintain the HD quality. I kind of stumbles onto this website:

http://www.bauer-power.net/2009/04/create-hd-videos-in-windows-movie-maker.html

This guy had the same dilemma as me so he created a plugin for Windows Movie Maker that would allow it to export the files into their final HD format. He included four HD resolutions. Just download, open and drag the plugins to your WMM directory/plugin folder.

Anyway, I'll probably upload the video files for download later in the week (or today).

Sherman Toy in HD by Justin Bread is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Tank Misadventures

This was just a short clip I made using my new Logitech C600 webcam. Since it was so short I made all the project files available at Megaupload:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QVRGWUMR

Tank Misadventures by Justin Bread is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.