Armature Wiring

A short video on how I add wire to the arms of the clay figure. There are better methods of doing this, but this was the easiest way for me.

You can find 22 Gauge floral wire at most hobby shops like "Michael's" "Hobby Lobby" "Hobby Bench" "Wal-Mart (craft section)" "Target (craft section)"

And if your interested, the music is from Rob McNurlin. You can listen and download for free here:

http://www.archive.org/details/rmcnurlin2004-07-30.flac16


Armature Wiring by Justin Bread is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Green Screen Test

This was a pretty cool attempt at using Green Screens. The Green Screen here is actually just a $0.95 bright green poster board. You can buy these at hobby stores or Target/Wal-Mart.

Here's a link to where I got the stock footage of driving (it is free to share and to remix/edit). You can download it for free but you have to convert it to AVI format to use it in Wax.

http://www.archive.org/details/IMB_SF_R36_C10

The static at the end of the movie can be found here:

http://www.archive.org/details/Static_385

I also made the green screen footage available. You can download it here for free.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AKUO5790

If you edit this video you can post it to YouTube and post it as a response to my video.


Green Screen Test by Justin Bread is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Motor Speaker Project

There's no practical use for this but it's a cool trick.

The reason this works is because both electric motors and speakers use electromagnets. A coil of wire is attached to a a piece of felt and placed over a fixed magnet. When electronics flow trough the coil, it creates a magnetic field and it repels against the fixed magnet which causes impulses. The felt also impulses which creates sound.

An electric motor works the same way except the coil of wire is attached to an axis that is between to fixed magnets. When electrons flow through and create a magnetic field, the two magnets repel the coil and causes it to spin. Then if you attached it to a cup, it converts the impulses into audible sound.

Try it. If you post a video you can add it as a response to this one.


Motor Speaker Project by Justin Bread is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Quick Update

All of the previous blogs have been updated, so all the videos are operational. I haven't checked the links but if you find one that doesn't work, just let me know and I'll fix it.

I Return.

My original YouTube account got suspended for "violating the terms of use".

So at the moment, I'm trying to get it back together and reupload most of my old videos. I made a new account called aDimWit01.

http://www.youtube.com/user/aDimWit01.

Also, I need to re-embed the videos to all of the previous entries.

If you want to help, just tell people where my account hasbeen changed to. Anyway, for your enjoyment, I've sent up some custom players with several playlists containg music videos, DIY creative videos, Stopmotion videos, and My videos.









I think a lot of people would appreciate it if you could embed the Stopmotion Animations Playlist on your Websites.

Mini Guitar Amplifier

I made this little amplifier out of parts I pulled off of dead electronics so a more appropriate name would be a JunkAmp.

Here's a schematic I put together for people to reference. Download it by Right-Clicking then "Save as..." or "Save Link as...".

The image gets cutoff but just Right-click and "View Image" to see it all.



Here are the parts you will need.

LM386 Amplifier chip (8 pins)

10 ohm Resistor

10 microFarad (uF) Polarized Capacitor

220 microFarad (uF) Polarized Capacitor

0.047 microFarad (uF) Non-Polarized Capacitor

One Speaker: 8 ohm, 0.5 Watt speaker (I used a 8 ohm, 2 watt speaker in the video).

One 1/4 inch audio plug jack.

One 9 volt Battery.

One 9 volt Battery connector.

PCB Board

Wire. It's easier to use stranded wire, since it is more flexible.

Notes:

Polarized means there is a Positive and Negative end of the component. For the Capacitors, there is a white stripe on the side of the cylinder that leads from one of the leads (pin). That stripe indicates which side is Negative.

Since we are using a 9 volt battery for this project the Working Voltage of the Polarized Capacitors have to be higher than 9 volts, or else you will damage the Capacitor. The Working Voltage is usually written next to the White Stripe that I mentioned above and is just written as "9v" or greater.

The non-Polarized Capacitor does not have a polarity (+ -)so it doesn't matter which way it is positioned. Since the non-polarized capacitor is so small, the numbers on it will be written as "473" to indicate it's a 0.047 uF capacitor.

Edit: Jan. 17 2011

 I've gotten a few questions about adding additional features and so I drew up a second schematic that shows how to add an LED for an indicator light, Power switch and a volume pot.

To add a little distortion, remove the 10 uF capacitor and replace it with a simple wire connecting Pin 1 and 8. The capacitor stabilizes the sound wave, but removing it will cause some distortion. Keep pin 1 and 8 connected though, this keeps the gain as high as possible.

If you have any questions, just email me at aDimWit@hotmail.com

Mini Guitar Amplifier by Justin Bread is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Both images embedded on this post are Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons licensed.

Sound effects

I posted this as kind of a reference for other people who need sound effects. These are a few sites that people recommended and I use them occasionally too. To download stuff from the Planethalflife, you need a Gamespy account but it is all free.

http://editor321.planethalflife.gamespy.com/sounds.htm

http://www.findsounds.com/

http://flashkit.com/soundfx/

http://www.soundsnap.com/

http://sound-effects.com/

I hope these links help. If you have a suggestion, email me at aDimWit@hotmail.com and I'll add it to this post.