Electronics

Category Archive: Electronics

All about circuits, electronics, and getting stuff to work

04 May 18

350W Brushless DC Hover Board Wheel Motor

In this episode, I take apart and loook inside a Brushless DC Hover Board Wheel Motor.

01 Apr 18

Made 2 Hack – Retro Intro

23 Jan 18

Electronics Workbench LED Lighting Upgrade

In a previous video, I added LED lighting to my workbench by using LED strips. These worked quite good, however they were the cheap ebay kind whose double side tape was really bad. The heat given off by the LEDs caused most of the tape to stop sticking and I had to glue the strip […]

19 Jan 18

Carbide Bicycle Lamp Retrofit using LEDs for Rinoa Super-Genius

Today on Made To Hack, I retrofit a carbide lamp! I’m doing this for fellow YouTuber Rinoa Super-Genius so that the lamp can be used on an electric ebike project. Cleaning the Carbide Reservoir This is a Luminor Carbide Bicycle Lamp from probably the early 1920s. I’m retrofitting it so that it can run off […]

15 Jan 18

Store Front Lighting using Copper Pipes

A friend recently asked me to help light up his store front with some copper pipe lamps.

12 Jan 18

Metrology Therapy feat Mitutoyo Absolute AOS Digimatic

I unbox the Mitutoyo Absolute AOS Digimatic Digital Caliper

12 Dec 17

220V/230V Mains power Full-Spectrum LED COB (Chip on Board)

In this episode, I try some Mains voltage 220V/230V LED full spectrum Chip on Board (COB). They don’t require a LED driver, they can be connected directly to mains voltage.

07 Dec 17

How to Upgrade Ram & SSD Drive on Acer Aspire E1-571G Laptop

My Acer Aspire E1-571G Laptop came with an Intel i3 CPU, 4Gb of DDR3 RAM and a 500Gb Hard Disk Drive, as well as a 1Gb mobile nVidia GeForce GT 620M GPU. However, I wanted to upgrade the laptop since it is a few years old and it can use a few faster components. For […]

28 Nov 17

Getting Carbon Graphite Electrodes from Zinc Carbon Batteries

Finding some carbon graphite electrodes is usually a pretty easy thing to do. You first need to buy or find some zinc carbon batteries. Ypi need to make sure they are zinc carbon and not alkaline or rechargeable types such as Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMh) or Lithium Ion (LiIon or LiPo). I also recommend wearing […]

10 Oct 17

Adding a Power Switch and LED to a Glue Gun

I always wondered why there is never any power switch on a glue gun, so I decided to add one. Disassembly The first step is to carefully disassemble the glue gun in order to be able to access the electrical cables and the mechanics. I carefully took the glue gun apart making sure to note […]