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Thomas

Maker, father, former cinematographer. I like to build things with salvaged Soviet tech.

Tbilisi, Georgia

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This user joined on 06/23/2019.

My Projects

Adapting the keypad from a Soviet Быстрица-2 mechanical calculator to generate digital signals.

Mechanical calculator keypad for digital use

A bench power supply made mostly from salvaged Soviet tech.

Bench Power Supply from salvaged Soviet tech

Projects I Like & Follow

Hackaday Prize 2019

Why buying an expensive cyclone vacuum cleaner when you can build yourself one?

The DIYson, an open source Cyclone vacuum cleaner

Madaeon Madaeon

An digital clock made out of 144 7 segment displays

7 Segment display array clock

A modern DC/DC converter design capable of delivering current in excess of 40mA at 170V

High Voltage Nixie Power Supply

Hackaday Prize 2019

When did the charm of holding a bulky receiver to your ear end? What if we could bring the feel of the old times to our smartphones?

An old rotary phone as Bluetooth set

This is my attempt to build a device that will trace Lissajous curves on a CRT with input from the user.

LissaJukebox (aka dedicated Lissajous machine)

A Clock style barometer, that displays the current weather with different slides, driven by an arduino, 5 servos a PCA9685 and a bmp280.

Tempestas II, A Clock style Barometer

Space Invaders inspired PCB art thing

LED handheld

Hackaday Prize 2019

A DIY flexible keyboard project; instead of using silicone, a SLA highly flexible resin is used.

DIY Flexible keyboard without using silicone

Madaeon Madaeon

When your arm rises in a "face touching direction," a tilt switch activates a buzzer to let you know that your hand is causing trouble.

Don't Touch Face

Retro-Futuristic 8-bit AVR based computer with 5" TTL CRT, PS-2 Keyboard, Serial Thermal Printer, PCM sound, and flash file system

Resto-Mod 8 bit microcomputer

Tabletop dice tower in a retro Sears Silvertone radio case with voice output

Sears Silvertone Audible Digital Dice Tower

Revision 2 of the resto-Mod Dungeons and Dragons Digital Dice Tower based on a 1975 Bell & Howell IMD-202 Digital Multi-meter

1979 "Heathkit" D&D Digital Dice Tower

Timepieces built using vintage HDSP-2000 LED displays

Retro Time: dot matrix LED clocks

This is a 3D printed Electromagnetic 7 Segment display. Click Digit

Click Digit - Electromagnetic 3D Printed 7 Segment

Vintage military hardware converted into a retro timekeeping device

Rogue Missile LED clock

Miniature, portable build of Wurlitzer's elusive keyboard teaching tool.

Wurlitzer Key Note Visualizer Replica

Recapturing my misspent youth, a quarter at a time

Asteroids from Scratch

A quick look at the new Cypress PSoC 6 boards and getting them connected to AWS IoT services

Cypress PSoC 6 and AWS IoT

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