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I once had a touch lamp that was haunted and would come on randomly. In this video, I’ll get rid of the ghosts and perform a touch lamp fix.
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In this video, I perform a Robosapien teardown (it’s broken anyway), talk about why/how it broke (hint: MAJOR manufacturing defect), and go over the anatomy of the robot looking at the different parts that made it tick.
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In mid-2011 I purchased a Shark SV75SP 14 cordless hand-held vacuum cleaner for small messes. The unit is shown in the picture below.
The batteries on the Shark lasted for about 10 minutes before they were drained and I was constantly recharging the thing. Worse yet, the instructions said to charge it for 16 hours (that’s a long time!). [Read more…] about Practical Electronics – Hacking My Shark Cordless Vacuum Project, Part 1
