Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Uncle Eel's 36 Hour Switching Trowie

So, I wanted to make some throwies for pumpkin carving but don't like a few things about them.
1) I measured the LED hooked up to my 3V batterie at 50mA. For my 180 mAH charge that would only give 3.6 hours

2) Pumpkin carving will be the day before Halloween, so I wanted a switch.

3) Using tape to preload the LED wire to a flat surface is not reliable.

So adding a 220 ohm resister should give a 36 hour light, I measured 5 mA (From Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories).

Solving the other problems went something like this:

Placing 2 pennies over the LED/resister leads to preload them to the battery


Using a rubber band to hold the LED lead against the resister with the penny backing it up.

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

There is an elephant in the room

Everybody is talking about Obama and the peace prize. Did hie deserve it, did he not. What has he done, what has he not done.

Ok, let me help here. A black man was elected the president of the United States of America.
Let me repeat that: A black man was elected the president of the United States of America

One year ago today, most people would have thought that impossible. One year ago.
Now it is a fact.

America. I love this place, but lets be honest here, it is racist as hell. And now, a black man is president. President!

So, when we wonder what he has done to earn the peace prize, don't look outside of the U.S. Look in.

Yes we can!