A short collection of stop-motion projects which were never published. These projects were eventually abandoned for whatever reason. The date they were created ranges from 2004 to 2009.
I had purchased a 60 GB iPod at a yard sale. It wouldn't turn on and it wouldn't hold a charge when it was connected to a USB port. With a firewire cable, it would charge but only run for 30 minutes as opposed to 8 hours. So I bought a battery for it online. This was a short clip showing how to replace the battery.
The iPod also had a couple other problems. The click wheel wouldn't work, so I had to replace that as well. After that, it worked great but I hated the iPod interface. After a couple days, I put Rockbox on their.
Rockbox was great. There were tons of features added to the iPod. You can record audio, run tons of audio formats, even a few video formats and lots of games.
Eventually, the five year old hard drive burned out so I shelved the iPod. I could buy a new harddrive but they're about $90 bucks so I'll wait awhile.
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.
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.
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:
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).
This was device I made largely based on the Solar Theremin schematic found on the Popular Science website. Instead of using two Photoresistors, I used two 5 kOhm variable resistors. You just play with the two knobs to adjust the tones.
. . . The Clay War was removed by YouTube because Warner Music Group claimed copyright infringement on the audio track which was The Ride of The Valkyries. I was able to find a public domain copy of Die Valkyrie which is essentially the same. I can re-edit it with the new track but I might have to do without sound effects.
. . . Warner Music Group also claimed infringement on Stopmotion Flight Tutorial so the audio has been disabled. I can probably redo the audio without much of a problem.
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