My aquaponic, my auto-timer project, and my flying gems!

My aquaponic, my auto-timer project, and my flying gems!

A test project for entrepreneurship...

At last, signs of breeding have now started

At last, after 6 months of keeping this green-colored African lovebird (which had escaped last time) and almost a month for the newly bought non-eye ring ALB, there are now signs that theses winged animals will multiply in numbers. But still, I should not count the chicks until the eggs are hatched, because I learned that sometimes unfertilized egg happens and stupid parent bird at times, exists.
This intermarriage so to speak, of the eye-ring ALB and non ER will be monitored for its outcome since this kind of breeding is not advised by most avian breeders. I just hope that everything will be alright, no albino, no "disabled" or no special chick...

The couple was caught in the act by my Sony video-camera.

Dog Bark-activated circuit

Below is the prototype of a sound-activated circuit. It is intended to deter night burglars to entering house premises. It will detect the bark of the owner's pet dog and immediately activates lamp ON for a short duration giving an impression that the occupants have been alerted.

Below is the PCB Artwork

I will post the photo of the actual project as soon as I finish the construction...

4 wires used by SmartBro

This is the SmartBro Wi-Fi  4 wires inside its RJ45 plug.

My Workstation

My Working Area for my Electronic stuff

My E-Circuit Schematics Collection

Above is the screen capture of my drive E folder- my collection of electronic circuit schematics which I wish I could all build...

Videocam gets power from PSU

This Beac DDV-1000 is a versatile device. It can be used as a webcam, voice recorder, videorecorder, camera, and a media player. It also has a port for transmitting video signal to TV screen, and also a port to  receive video signal, which can be seen through its 2.5" LCD screen and at the same time can record the video signal it receives from a mini-spy camera, wireless or not.
Unfortunately I lost its "commercially-unavailable" AC power adaptor at the airport (though it has a rechargeable dual polarity 3.6V battery source, it doesn't last long). So I dug out "hard-to-find" information from the internet on how to make a home-made power supply particularly with both positive and negative 3.6 volts, but to no avail. So, I just tried to use the (-)5 volt of the PSU from my old desktop PC, disregarding the possible damaging effect of using higher voltage, thinking I had no choice.
Luckily, it worked! ...but of course I don't know for how long...

I am modifying the wiring to connect it a small camera using a long LAN cable for home security. 

3 ALB flew away and gone for 7 hrs, but were tricked to come back

Click the video to watch the thrilling and dramatic movie of the great escape of these 3 fugitives!

The picture below was taken when the 3 escapees were enjoying their first encounter of freedom
in the outside world. They perched on the insulated 220volt copper line of our neighbor.

Who would think these 3 african lovebirds (in the Phil), after escaping from their cage and be gone away for about 7 hours, would be fooled to come back and gave-in to the entrapment door?

A flying gem escaped and flew away but had decided to return back!

Around 10 in the morning, 1 partner of my african lovebird couple escaped from the cage and flew away. I unintentionally scared her away  by opening the cage' door and installing a swinging perch. Noticeably his partner which was left inside the cage got so disturbed that was very noisy; maybe he's calling her to come back or bring him together with her outside.

Studying PIC microcontroller

...this subject is interesting...but I'm always half-way there.

I'm the pilot here

.....hovering steadily...Flying is fun!

Stuffs on my waiting list

5. dog bark triggered camera shuttter
6.  human proximity sensor
7.  laser burglar alarm
8. wireless control -stepper motor unit for surveillance camera using old toy RC
9.  modified mosquito electric killer
10. appliance automatic timer circuit