Tech's Lab

Bots Making Industry

2011-02-25T06:53:00.000-08:00

Its been a while since the last post.

Been very busy with work and school.

My drawing board filled with new idea ,product and robotic stuff. Problem is i just cant find time to make it happened. Here are not the latest but the newest collections of my bots that been lying around the house hibernating.

Specifications: 2 continuos servo, 2 miniservos for neck rotation, rc modules receiver, wireless camera. 9 channel rc trasmitter.

TheSideWinder

2010-11-02T09:37:00.000-07:00

Tech X Holga

TheSideWinder

Yes, i'm facing the fact as the laziest person to turn the forwarding wheel to the next frame of 120mm medium format film.
Yet another toy camera which i always loved to improvised and mod. Relatively easier cos it made from plastic.
Nothing fasinating, no electrical/electronic involved but yet tough enough to made me think how can it be done as simple as possible.

Another great quick weekend project, PartyPeople!!!

GakkenFlex with hotshoe video

2010-03-13T21:01:00.000-08:00

Gakken Flex X Tech | Burnin Hot Shoe

2010-03-05T03:40:00.000-08:00

Gakken Flex X Tech | Burnin Hot Shoe
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Its a been a while since the last toy camera mods.
First pick out on shelves will be this GakkenFlex 35mm. Fully self assembled. U can just get it on an issue copy from Gakken Magazine.

Gakken 35mm hapened to have no flash mount. Everyone will always wanted and have type of camera with hotshoe mount which could make life pretty easy to take photo in low light condition.

Im starting out with modifying this little toy camera with salvage part of hot shoe mount and place it to the camera. Got a roll to start with to test the outcome with flash..Stay tune... people. and enjoy the pic.

TECH 's Holga E-W

2010-03-04T08:29:00.000-08:00

Present you another Holga mod. An additional based motorized forwarding frame.
"I've been too lazy to turned those wheel to another frame.."

-Hand build and crafted the based unit.
-90degress angle gear box with motor
-12v battery
-matt black finishing

My view - its pretty much more confortable to hold..motor works great.

Fat Tag

2009-12-07T15:52:00.000-08:00

I_Writ coming soon!!

2009-11-18T01:02:00.000-08:00

2009-11-18T00:55:00.000-08:00

Tech X Holga E-W

2009-10-04T06:13:00.000-07:00

Tech Holga E-W
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Another Holga Mod by me.
Newly bought holga from Khloe during her booth at Baybeats recently.
She said " Doing another Mod...?"
I said "..maybe..."

Present you another Holga mod. An additional based motorized forwarding frame.
"I've been too lazy to turned those wheel to another frame.."

-Hand build and crafted the based unit.
-90degress angle gear box with motor
-12v battery
-matt black finishing

My view - its pretty much more confortable to hold..motor works great.

For more picture click link below.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/techstg/

Air Freshner Mod

2009-10-03T18:49:00.000-07:00

A random idea in a Taxi somewhere KL couple months back with a friend.
Random project which i keen on make it happened.

After much planning n idea. I basically used back the existing Freshner Dispenser available at home (I got this at home). A simple mod done and it fits n works perfect.
The project/idea is to placed different kind of freshner available to the dispenser. An actual dispenser could only placed a small type of cans.

Check them photos out.

existing dispenser unit

removing the mechanical n the processing unit.
Have to cut out a bigger slot for the spacing.

normal small freshner with small tip in diameter

Different kind of freshner with tip of a little bit bigger in diameter.

take note of the right side cap which being modify; stock cap from a normal spray paint. it fits nicely

Whats left in progress to placed it back to the case, a few cut out from the original n its done.
Another great n quick weekend project.

16X2 Green Display

2009-08-17T07:26:00.000-07:00

I'm back again at my drawing board and workstation.

The prototype to be given away. I made it raw with no chassis for the board and the LCD, cos it looks more technical and colourful.

Hope it will reach u on your wedding day, Ork.
Peace.

Description
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16X2 Green LCD module
Pic16F84A microprocessor
3 x AA battery

*Display messaged fixed

T-Bots v.2

2009-08-17T01:54:00.000-07:00

New add on to Tbots .
Futaba Servo motor act as the neck rotation.
Video will be up soon.

new add on of Tbots.

Futaba Servo for the head and neck rotation.

T-Bots v.1

2009-08-17T01:51:00.000-07:00

I'm working on new Bots for my own. Yeah, Its gonna be better than the previous and more autonomous and well build.

Check out the preview.

Specifications
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Picaxe28 microcontroller
Geared motor
Ultra sonic range finder for the vision.

Ultra sonic range finder , these are the eyes

Few tweaks on the programming and its done.

Tech X CCD X Holga Gn

2009-07-23T21:34:00.000-07:00

Salvaging old parts to make into a new different approach. Few of these CCD camera found with out the lens intact. The results will be quite interesting. it still gave that soft vignet on corners but the magnification from the ccd to the holga 28mm lens will be now about ETA 75 to 90mm. I tested it on a monochrome tv, wonder what will be the outcome on coloured tv.soon to be test out. I would love to build Holga Digital Back. For enthusiast, it already happened. Search more u can find someone does it with the already existing digital back mend for other type of camera.

Tech X Holga X Instax Mod

2009-05-02T19:16:00.000-07:00

Due to the hype of the Diana Instax Back available. I wondering if i could made this possible to Holga itself. Thanks to a few lomotion guys who supported me. Its a great challenged yet another great weekend project Done!!.

Unfortunately i have to eject the intax film manualy. For some incident the original motor and gear damaged. Replacement hassled; parts unable to be found outside. The distant lens point to the original holga film sit are now 5mm extra/away so this mod only able to take up close up and portrait shot.

Instax Back for holga Mod. from Yours Truly.
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Holga 35mm back.
Spoilt instax.
aperture mod to F11
25 out of 30 instax wasted during the trial run.
Now 0/10.

2008-11-16T02:03:00.001-08:00

Laser stencil projection

2008-10-03T06:12:00.001-07:00

The Green Lantern project Stencil. The first trial on it.

Yashica Electro Gsn repaired

2008-08-02T10:13:00.000-07:00

Another camera repaired, quick one time taken about 2hrs.
Camera belongs to Dreamia.

Quick look and load the battery,
-Battery check failed.
-Light meter not working.

What i did, check the connection on the battery.
Found intermittent on the negative side of the battery holder ( this are the tough part to check as the connection of every single wire to the component is hard wire and compact ). Cut of the wire which connected to the negative side. Replaced it with a new longer wire.

Battery check OK

Light meter check OK

Gd cleaning up on the lens and the view finder.
Place back everything.

Thanks about it.
All good to go.

Happy Shooting again.

We Here First!!

2008-07-29T16:44:00.000-07:00

Photo courtesy frm Antz and KGB

Hello Part People!!

2008-07-20T18:03:00.000-07:00

Tech X Laser Tag GRL @ RSC block party on 19th July 08.
First ever attempt on quite a bigger scale, happy with results.Would like to thanks Razi (RSC) for the invitation and the rest who came down to try [ Rave, Newa, Libre, Klax ] and have fun on it. Not forgetting Florian from Austria.

Hello Party People !!!!!

2008-07-04T21:57:00.000-07:00

ROCKSTAR COLLECTIVE BLOCK PARTY.

Dispite on the last minute cancel of the previous block party from Rockstar Collective,
On 19th July 08, they will be a new locations of the party at Old School.
I be there to set up lasr Tagging later on the night event. Do come down ,say hello to me,..and hopefully u got a chance to try it out.
Check them put for the detail at
http://www.rscblockparty.com/

I be updating the confirmation location in near future.Peacr out.
Hello Party People.!!!

Yashica MG-1 Repaired and Mod

2008-05-18T03:48:00.000-07:00

Same Camera from the previous post. Yashica MG-1.
I don't have time to test it out. Notice something which i did take note off during the first repaired. MG-1 have to light indicator which enable us to take note during the exposure. Overexp. or Slow shutter speed .

I happened to test it out just outside my house. Realize that the overexposed light indicator did not light up, and of course the slow light indicator works fine.

Here i go again troubleshooting where might go wrong, or simply the bulb just blows off.

The bulb dead. Replace it with 3mm led. Since it consume less voltage and current. Point check with DMM , it can goes more than 3v depends on the light intensity falls to the light meter.

Cut out the wiring of and solder the respective point of - and + side of the led. At this point of time, i fix the problem. Led works on during large aperture setting, which means over expoure.

The light did not give much intensity on the bright sunny day outside. Very small of amount of light to indicate it to be over exposure definately hardly notice. If u excidently forgot to dial in to the corrent expoure setting.

As a results, i have no choice but to changed to 5mm led which gives out higher output and since the led are way to big to slot in internally at the actually of the camera. i Mod it by placing the Led outside. Since theres a small hole located there, the led are nicely placed outside. The Led works better this time.

The Led placed out side did not give and problem with the original ones. but i think it serve the purposed to reworked.
I definetly have to test roll this camera out during weekend.
Happy Great Weekend Part People.

Yashica MG-1 internal/repaired

2008-05-18T03:43:00.000-07:00

Solving MG-1
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A quick sneak into the internal part of Yashica MG-1.
Friend of mine gave this to me cause he say its broken.
Since that the led is functioning and only the shutter gave a buld mode everytime, I assume the light meter is working and there might be part loose connection to trigger the shutter.

Spend about couple of hours in my workplace to partly dismantled the camera.
My guess is right, fixed the contact and it works now.
The camera are now good to go and well clean by me and DamageDigital

Below are pic of internal part of the camera and the cause of it to not triggering the shutter.
No harm trying to looked into the internal part if u knew what u are doing and if its really cant be fixed, at most just make it into a collection.

My Little BlackBook vid.

2008-03-15T15:44:00.000-07:00

My Little Blackbook Exhibition

2008-03-03T07:10:00.000-08:00

I was invited to an exhibition by Razi Razak and Djohan. Showcasing on my motion text writing; POV.
Made 3 sets of the POV;led text. Each sets has different word that i pre-program on to the microcontroller. Pick a set,Swing and Captured the text by a slow shutter speed of a camera.
Thanks to all who tried out and turn up.
For more pictures of the opening click the link below.Cheers
Tech's multiply

Capitaland graff competition

2008-01-23T02:08:00.000-08:00

Date : 27 Jan 08
Venue : Tampines Mall Event Plaza Level 4 , 1 - 5pm
IMM Event Plaza Level 3, 1 - 5pm
Bukit Panjang Plaza, Garden Plaza level 2, 10am - 2pm
Junction 8, Open Plaza Level 3, 10am - 2pm
Tampines Mall, Event Plaza Level 4 ,1- 5pm

Each team were located at the venues..

Its been quite sometimes, since the last competion that we took part..2005 i guess..

Since its also been a while having commision/showcase painting for the part recent years, I switch my mindset as it will be more like a showcase than a competition.

Catch us live this sunday 27th Jan 08.Our venue will be at IMM Event Plaza.
Combining with 2 warriors from ASW crew.
If u were there, drop by and say Hello to the Dynamic Duo and 2 warriors..

Disposable Cam. Hack

2007-12-08T08:06:00.000-08:00

Re-used disposable material or item is good.
Re used the item rather than throw it away will just be right to make something useful.
Disposable camera?.Flash?...I reused the flash from disposable camera. I searching something new to work with and ended up to this simple idea. To all LomoHead out there. u might try this out. I think its lot more cheaper than getting a manual slave flash available more over when LoMoHead love to "Colour Splash' it.
The flash also works great with colour trasparent plastic just to get the colour splash out of it..

So get yourself a disposable camera and start hacking!!!

Check out the link and try it yourselves.
mail me if u got any question about it.

http://www.spraytwogeorge.net/labtech/flash_hack%20copy.jpg

Laser Tag

2007-11-07T19:22:00.000-08:00

Tech X LaserTag_GRL

2007-11-06T06:01:00.000-08:00

Laser Tag
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I hooked up with people from GRL (Graffiti Research Lab) to have a try out with their Laser Tag.Wehoping to try out the new WINDOWS version but eventually i've tried out the Open Source version.Hope fully they could solve my problem and feedback for the Windows version.
It will hit Singapore streets one fine day..
Anyway check those picture out.
Much Thanks to great people from Backalley for the projector.
Cheers people!!!

Light Up and Ready to go!!

2007-10-01T08:22:00.000-07:00

I've made and fabricated a few of pcb board. Powered by 2x 3volts battery and 19 super bright Blue Led. Made to Light Up the streets. Dont get irritate by the brightness, cos its happened every where in the city. Led are now a trend for "Sign-age"..

Tech's LDR

2007-08-11T04:38:00.000-07:00

LDR
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Led Matrix of my tag name. Its a basic LDR circuit.

Lesson 1
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What is LDR?
LDR stands for Light Detection Resistor. Its a basic on/off switch or simple to say its switches independently by light source surrounding it.

For this i've made it, when theres sufficient light around it will switch 'off' the LED; in other words when in the day. When its dark or at night , it will then switch 'ON' the LED and u got a light on. Save power and energy. Duration it can live up to 2 weeks 'on and ' off'.

Graffiti on the other side, active in the night for street bombing and lots more...

Light Up @ Eindhoven part 2

2007-07-28T05:52:00.000-07:00

Light Up @ Eindhoven

2007-07-25T22:16:00.000-07:00

Im back again at Eindhoven for a business trip sent by my company. A stressful day at customer site but had a great night life. I hook up a couple of Leds circuit to have a quick paste there.

Stay tune for more!!

Tech X BeamBots

2007-06-13T09:25:00.000-07:00

i'm really inspired by the creator of BeamBots,of cource theres many of them out there.I like the way they manipulate the analog sytle into a rare creature from its own component as a skeleton.

This are my version of it.Simple made up of two dc motor 3v lithium battery and a feeler to autonomus the moving of individual motor.This are the miniture ones..about size of a 30cm by 40 cm in length.I making a bit bigger ones soon.

Peak_A_Boo

2007-06-10T05:56:00.000-07:00

Finally i finished hooking and planning of adding a civil. camera just outside my home.
Requested by my mom of having trouble knowing "who's behind the door , knocking away.."
Yeah,She had trouble walking up to the door to looked at, so i did something for ease of her.

Specifications
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- Vga camera mono. running at 9VDC and tv output
- Inductive sensor with build in relay and pre-program settings;running at 12vdc and could go up to 3 mtres in sensing range.
- Wires to hook up and patience.

The Camera

The controller

The Sensor

"Halo, anybody home.!!"

Im happy with the outcome ;maybe future i hook up with colour camera instead.

Led Array V.2

2007-05-18T07:34:00.000-07:00

Latest version which made up of 8 bits or 8 Leds.

"Schmeezero"
Custom order for a friend

D-Matrix - prototype

2007-05-16T08:11:00.000-07:00

Made Up of 15 piece 10mm Led,control by pic16f84 with 6v battery.
Sneek preview of it..out in the city soon.!!!

Led Array video

2007-05-01T01:32:00.000-07:00

Feel free to read the documentation of the Led Array.
Led array doc

LED Array

2007-04-29T19:46:00.000-07:00

Led Array

Will post the video soon..so stay tune.!!

Throw Up-Our Lab Exhibiton

2007-04-28T20:18:00.000-07:00

Recent Throw Up - Our Lab exhibition in March 2007.Here are the sneak preview on the exhibition.

Material used : L.E.D;light emitting diode and 2032 3v lithium battery and simple LDR circuit.

Led throwie inspired by GRL

Lets get started.!!!

2007-04-28T18:51:00.000-07:00

Let's get things started!!!
Everyone might knew me from SprayTwoGeorge.;The two men graffiti crew. Well in this Lab-Tech, I represents my ownself. Electronic are my greatest interest since my first step to the engineering line. Along the way, i experienced great things from commision project in fabricating and designing.

Graffiti in other hand; fall in place earlier. Its keep me motivated and made creativity comes to place.

So in this blog of mine, are likely to see more electronic project and also a combination of the terms "graffiti in the urban communcation".

Lets have Elecronic i fun and enjoying experienced.!!!
so stay tune.. for more posting.