Has anyone on here played with pummer circuits?

[ruenahcmohr@infosec.exchange]

@MLE_online I think we need to make a point of reaching out to our community more.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@RueNahcMohr yea. i used to be much more connected, but then i stopped going to the cons and things after the pandemic

[ruenahcmohr@infosec.exchange]

@MLE_online <online, online....>

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@RueNahcMohr well sure, but in person is better when possible. I just mean I kind of fell out of the electronics/maker scene

[ruenahcmohr@infosec.exchange]

@MLE_online indeed, I mean its not like everyone is an alien hiding under a rock while try to maintain some level of social contact to keep from going insane.
as a completely made up scenario which is just an example and totally isn't real.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@RueNahcMohr aw, you gotta find some real people in person to hang out with!

[davebauerart@mastodon.social]

@MLE_online Absolutely there should be a market for this! I'd pay for the real world convenience of going to a store to buy something in person compared to the virtual convenience of online "shopping".

[johns_az@mastodon.social]

@MLE_online @acsawdey
Cool. And clue on the origin of the word "pummer"?

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

I got my chips from @ai6yr today and built a pummer. Unfortunately this pummer is a failure. I'm not sure why yet

[legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@MLE_online @ai6yr Hope you're not too pummed out by this.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@ai6yr I built it on perfboard because I wanted this to be non-permanent in case I messed something up. I might go ahead and try building it dead bug style to see if I can get it working that way

[tankgrrl@hachyderm.io]

@MLE_online
Nothing pummer-related to add.

Just favoriting this just for the 2nd part. :chefkiss:

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@ai6yr it's not completely kaput. It does turn on when the lights go out. It just stays on instead of slowly pulsing. If i knew more about electronics, this would be an important clue

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@MLE_online YAY! Glad the chips did not get smashed into tiny pieces!

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@Legit_Spaghetti @MLE_online That's not punny, she worked really hard on that circuit.

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@ai6yr me too! Now i just need to figure out how ali built a solar powered nightlight instead of a pummer

[zl2tod@mastodon.online]

@MLE_online

Is the LM3909 still a thing?

They, with an alkaline D cell, will flash an LED for years, but without the groovy fade.

http://solarbotics.net/library/datasheets/LM3909.pdf

[mle_online@social.afront.org]

@zl2tod cool, but that's not what I'm going for in this instance

[bytex64@awesome.garden]

@MLE_online @ai6yr Sounds like the charging side is working, at least. I bet the problem will be frustratingly simple.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@bytex64 @MLE_online Typically something that turns on and off will do so by charging/discharging (resistor and capacitor). But, I haven't look at these kind of circuits. (it probably suffers, like many circuits do, on bad Internet schematics! On the plus side, AI has ingested a lot of bad Internet schematics, lol)