Making an Octagon
Hello everyone, As part of our stadium project we had to make an octagon out of wood, and we thought some of you would want to know how to do it for your projects... So here we go: First we can determine that the angles within an octagon add to 1080 degrees from the picture […]
Parts for the water alarm
Last time we sorted out the front end of circuit, so now lets pick the last of our parts. To start, lets pick our battery. For this project, we're going to use a 9V battery. We are choosing 9V because it's easily connected with a snap on terminal and doesn't need a holder (you can […]
Water Alarm Design
In our last post we outlined what we wanted the water alarm to do, so now its time to plan our design. Lets dive right in. Above you can see a simple block diagram of what we are building, and the most important part is the transistor. Its job is to turn on in the […]
Project #2: Water Alarm
Hello Everyone, Spring is almost here and that means melting snow! Yes, some of us have plenty of the stuff blanketing our yards. Every spring we worry that the power will go out while we're sleeping and that we will wake up to a flooded basement. We keep saying we'll buy a water detection alarm […]
BeyBlade Stadium Plan
As our last post explained, we will be building a BeyBlade Stadium with a couple of extra features. First we are going to add some user configurable lighting to the stadium, and second we are going to add some pinball style arms to the walls. After taking some measurements of my sons existing stadiums, we […]
First Project
Hello and welcome to Glitch Circuits, We are excited to announce the first project. We will be building a BeyBlade stadium for my son. He recently broke his leg in a skiing accident, and loves BeyBlades. So we are going to build him a new stadium to play with while he waits for his leg […]
What are we doing here anyway?
So here we are, Glitch Circuits is on the world wide web, but why? Well, we've been designing circuit cards for high tech companies for many years now, and sometimes we want to build fun projects that don't take all year to develop. But if you can't share them with everyone, well... what's the point? […]