I’ve back dated a load of the updates, as I’d been meaning to post blog entries about the work, but hadn’t gotten round to it.

So far I have a 3d design worked out a working prototype circuit and a full breadboard circuit also designed.

I’ll try and put up some full photo’s soon and maybe even some video of the prototype.

It has been posted on to a fellow hacker in Kent.

In the end I added quite a lot of stuff to the box. Amongst other things a 6MP CCD from an old Fujitsu S20 pro camera, a bunch of motors from CD-ROM and floppy drives and a few discreet ICs

Soon I will try and post an update about what I did with the switches I took out of the box.

There is some neat stuff in the box and I’ll been sending it on shortly. I have a bunch of junk to add, and here are the photos.

I’ve removed a board that contained a load of backlit LCD buttons, probably to be integrated into the chest of a robot of the as an  emergency stop/go kill button etc.

He had contacted me because he had seen my name on the TGIMBOEJ.org, a site that coordinates Migratory Boxes of Electric Junk on the Internet.

My name has been down on this site for at least a year, finally I get to participate!

So within a few days it should arrive and I’ll document here what’s in it and what I do with whatever I find.

I also have to add some stuff. I think for starters a NX18 Nixie Tube as seen in the Adafruit Ice Clock

Here is an uploaded copy of my draft presentation: