Caution! Science in Progress!

This weekend I went over to my friend Martijn to hang out, play with Lego and fiddle with electronics. He’s been working on a top secret project of his and we experimented with a couple of options to try and get it working.  So far, so bad, though, so I guess there’s still work to be done.  The top secret project is not the object behind the black block, that’s another secret project.

The hideous looking mess of wires on a plank of wood on the right side of the table is actually a really old power supply that I hacked a bit to make it possible to hook up to the secret project.  It had been in Martijn’s basement quite some time judging by the amount of dust on it.  The board the components had been soldered on looked like it was made of bakelite, it sure smelled like it. Anyway, after doing some serious continuity testing and other visual inspections we powered it up and nothing blew up.  A successful resuscitation it seems!

Such a shame that the weekend went by so quickly.