Tjaco's design graveyard

Welcome to my page, electronics freaks eat your heart out!
This is the place where electronic appliances are brought back to life.
No, this is no repair site.... here body parts are fused together to create new awesome creations........

DR Frankenstein will turn in his grave when he hears this.....

PIC µcontroller 

• Propeller clock - Digital time floating in thin air.....
• CERBERES - Small 3-wheel robot with InfraRed eyes & PIC16F84 brain.
   
• PIC programmer: the hardware - Serial programmer for PIC 16 types
• PIC programmer: the software - Download and set-up the software for your PIC programmer.
• PIC programmer: getting started - Small tutorial to get started with your PIC programmer
   
• The MICROCHIP assembly language - Turorial to get aquainted with the PIC assembly language
• MPLAB PIC simulation tool - Small tutorial to get started with MPLAB PIC simulator & assembler.

Audio 

• 2 x 40W Valve amplifier With active grid biasing
• 100W HiFi speakers with transmission line acoustics.......
• 2 x 10 Watt amplifier ....No-nonsense IC amplifier with TDA2030/2040
• Telephone recorder ....automatically records all phone conversations

Power supplies & ~switches

• mAh meter....Check the mAh capacitance of your rechargeable batteries
• Wash & Tumble.....Your washing machine & tumble dryer on one wall outlet, without blowing the fuse!
• Transformerless mains power supply ... Cheap & dirty
• Dusk to dawn switch .... automatic outdoor lighting...
• Dimmer switch ...230V / 50 Hz 300W
• Zero-power mains timer .... timing a few sec's to minutes
• 1.5 Volt LED flasher ....flash a LED from a single cell
• 0 - 300Volt adjustable power supply ....for safe experimenting
• Adjustable 25V / 1.5Amp power supply ......Simple & robust.
• PWM DC motor drive ....low loss speed control
• Electronic touch switch
• High power strobe light .......the real stuff.

Various

• 2-Stage bug zapper Let's vaporize those suckers...... !
• Manual EEPROM programmer for the XICOR 28C16
• IR remote control (not completely finished)

Tesla Coils

• My first solid state Tesla Coil with discrete level shifter
• Improved solid state Tesla Coil ! thanks to IC levelshifter & FAST diodes
• Square wave generator 0 - 1.5MHz ... tune your Tesla Coil
• Movies of the last coil   ( ) .....Arcs in the dark, 1000-speed CD burning and more...

Fun & Violence

• HV generator using a TV-flyback transformer ..yank some sparks!
• Home made fireworks using matches (2x)
• Anti aircraft litterbag ...... Knock them out of orbit
• How to blow up components using the universal component annihilator

Links & web gadgets

• Extreme art from LEO!
• Meet Taco (if you dare)
• Various cool HOBBY circuits
• Component specifications search engine
• Real Dutch culture!
• The homemade beer & wine page
• Snock's High Voltage page
• The vacuum tube page
• Bunnies survival test page

start date June 9 2000