[hackerspaces] PLASMA ARCLIGHTER - hacked

[Nils Hitze]

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Nils Hitze

Email: nhitze at gmail.com
Mobil: +49 179 9429701

Blog: silberkind.de <http://www.silberkind.de>
G+: silberkind.de/+
Twitter: @kojote <http://twitter.com/kojote>

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:06 PM, overflo <flo at tekstix.com> wrote:

> ohai zielgruppe!
>
> i did read on hackaday about this guy (podecoet /ultrakeet [0]) who
> modified cheap plasma lighters to play music.
> i really liked that idea and ordered myself such a lighter.. but it
> turns out the PCB is completely different from the original thing and i
> had to rewrite a large part of the code to ork on these new revisions.
> it became a community project at the metalab hackerspace and some people
> contributed their ideas, software-improvements and suggestions to the
> project.
>
> i talked to podecoet before getting into this effort and he is fine with
> me offering pre-modified lighters.
>
> so.. long story short
> i offer those lighters for sale now.
> i make them by hand, one at a time.
> they are available in metallic blackish, gold, and rainbow colors.
>
> so far, i got the cantina band tune or the imperial march playing.
>
>
>
> i will release the source code and write ups real soon now.
> unfortunately the project itself is not very hackable without removing
> the MCU and replacing it with another part.
>
>
>
> This is the very first "production run" that i will give a try.
> I spent a lot of work on the software side and debugging the chinese
> schematics and the result is good enough.
>
> But please do not consider this a commercial product as they are all
> handassembled and tested by myself.
> They come with lots of love, tears, sweat and burned skin from the
> soldering iron on my hands :)
>
> I sell one for 29,- euro + shipping (depending where you live, i am in
> austria)
>
> I only have time to assemble a very small quantity of those lighters.
> First come, first serve. Please do contact me offlist.
>
>
> I also run this webshop [4] where i offer them right now.
>
>
>
> :*
> -flo
>
>
>
> [0] http://ultrakeet.com.au/write-ups/modulated-arc-lighter
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXfjsAStuc my projects introduction
> (german)
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW3x4-KoYEg
> [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1sLjdAJ730
> [4] https://hackerspaceshop.com/products/arc-lighter-hacked
>
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