.:madworm:.'s photos with the keyword: modding

First I tried to cut these hole by hand with a carpet knife or similar. EPIC FAILURE. Then I tried a hole punch. EPIC FAILURE. Then I tried the 70€ circle cutter. EPIC FAILURE. The 2nd row has some misaligned holes. I had to cover up some bad cuts. Then I went back to the hole punch-bolt-nut contraption and combined it with using a carpet knife. It works but takes ages. At least 10 minutes per hole. I NEED A HYDRAULIC PRESS... or similar.. or or a workshop that has one... I've wasted 100€ on tools already and I can't get it done properly.

This is a mock up. The green color is fake ;-) I can only hope that the misaligned table tennis balls won't cause too much visual disturbance, once the thing is back in its old round form.

This is a test for an upcoming IKEA Samtid lamp modification. I'm not the first one to do this and surely not the last ;-) The LEDs operate at 30mA in this picture, 50mA is the maximum DC current. Maximum pulsed current is 100mA.

I used 3x 100Ω resistors to make it work for this test. The colors are not quite balanced.

So this is it. After I wasn't successful with the hole punch, I thought this would solve my problems for good. It cuts circles, but the forces are so big, that the centering ping moves around in the plastic foil. Therefore it cuts nice 'wanna be' circles, or egg shaped things. The edges are almost perfect though. EPIC FAILURE V2.0 I need to find a small company/workshop with some sort of hydraulic press. "punch, lift and slide" ;-)

So this is it. After I wasn't successful with the hole punch, I thought this would solve my problems for good. It cuts circles, but the forces are so big, that the centering ping moves around in the plastic foil. Therefore it cuts nice 'wanna be' circles, or egg shaped things. The edges are almost perfect though. EPIC FAILURE V2.0 I need to find a small company/workshop with some sort of hydraulic press. "punch, lift and slide" ;-)

So this is it. After I wasn't successful with the hole punch, I thought this would solve my problems for good. It cuts circles, but the forces are so big, that the centering ping moves around in the plastic foil. Therefore it cuts nice 'wanna be' circles, or egg shaped things. The edges are almost perfect though. EPIC FAILURE V2.0 I need to find a small company/workshop with some sort of hydraulic press. "punch, lift and slide" ;-)

So this is it. After I wasn't successful with the hole punch, I thought this would solve my problems for good. It cuts circles, but the forces are so big, that the centering ping moves around in the plastic foil. Therefore it cuts nice 'wanna be' circles, or egg shaped things. The edges are almost perfect though. EPIC FAILURE V2.0 I need to find a small company/workshop with some sort of hydraulic press. "punch, lift and slide" ;-)

So this is it. After I wasn't successful with the hole punch, I thought this would solve my problems for good. It cuts circles, but the forces are so big, that the centering ping moves around in the plastic foil. Therefore it cuts nice 'wanna be' circles, or egg shaped things. The edges are almost perfect though. EPIC FAILURE V2.0 I need to find a small company/workshop with some sort of hydraulic press. "punch, lift and slide" ;-)

Made from brass and tin/lead solder. Underneath is an AMD K6-2 350MHz. I could overclock it to 400 or 450MHz.

Made from brass sheets and tin/lead solder.