Bruce A. Shields

Bruce | August 26, 2008

The chestplate works perfectly! Now to do this again, but with the sheet aluminum!

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Tags: aluminum, chestplate, Full, paper, paper prototype, prototype, sheet aluminum

Bruce | August 25, 2008

Well I got two of these on ebay…I paid $15 for both and got FREE shipping!!! 1 was supposed to kind of work, and the other was broke. Well after tearing them apart, I got both of them to work and hold a charge for days!!!! They work great! I plan on using 1 PDA [...]

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Tags: batteries, control functions, Displays, ebay, FREE, level meter, Meter, solar charge, Wall, work

Bruce | August 25, 2008

Well I printed a prototype onto paper just to see how it would work. This is the Solar Charge Level Meter. Nice fit into the frame…BUT, I don’t think I will use this design because I need the entire chestplate to open. Looks cool though…

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Tags: Charge, chestplate, display, level meter, Looks, Meter, paper, prototype, solar charge

Bruce | August 25, 2008

Well I reprinted the display, into three layers, to test another way of having the display. The first sheet is black, but it is translucent and light can shine through. The second, or middle layer is solid black with cutouts for the display…this is to help prevent bleeding of light between the bars. The final [...]

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Tags: back, coaver, cutouts, display, layer, light flash, low battery, second, warning light

Bruce | August 25, 2008

I was leaving evening service yesterday and saw that the neighbor had thrown away a perfectly good R2 unit Dome. So what’s a Jawa to do? I went over and asked the lady on the porch if it was free, and she said yes! So I got it! It’s the older version, so the metal [...]

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Tags: evening service, guts, jawa, mask, neighbor, pie, r2 unit, sandcrawler, version, yesterday