Everyone has a passion in basketball. Basketball enthusiast never missed a single game played by their favorite team, and there were times that they wanted to speed up time or to add more time, depending if their bet-team is loosing or winning. Nevertheless, time is an important not just in basketball, but for every sports and in every day of our life. Sad to say, I cannot teach you how to speed up time but I will teach you how to make the digital clock in the basketball.
· Knowing the time.
- as far as I am concerned, 1 quarter in basketball is about 10 or 15 minutes. Since there are many possibilities of time per quarter we want to make a digital clock which can be set from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. Though we can make a basketball clock which starts at 99:99 and set it manually, I will teach you to make a basketball clock which will start at 15:59 and you can set it from there.
· Design the minutes and seconds hand of the game clock
- I already made a tutorial regarding extracting the second and the minute hand of the basketball game clock. You can read the instruction from this post of mine and come back here after you made it.
The second-hand circuit of the basketball game clock
The minute-hand circuit of the basketball game clock
The two figures are the final second and minute hand of
our basketball game clock.
· Simulate the designed circuit
- Since we are already done making the circuit diagram of our game clock, we can test it with our circuit simulator to see if it is running properly. Then after simulating we buy the materials needed.
·
Buying of the
materials
Materials
|
pieces
|
7-segment LCD
display
200 ohms resistors
10k resistors
7448
7408
74190
7414
Capacitors 10nF
(momentary)
Push button Switch
DPDT switch
(Non momentary) switch
|
4 pcs
28 pcs
4 pcs
4 pcs
1 pcs
4 pcs.
1 pc.
4 pcs
4 pcs.
1 pcs
1 pc.
|
That’s it. Here is the final circuit of the basketball game
clock.
Final Circuit of the Basketball Game clock
Got an Iphone? How about its
headphone? Do you know you can control some stuffs in your Iphone using the
three simple buttons found in your headphone? Well if not, this page is for
you. Apple’s standard earphone is consist of 3 simple button the plus(+), the
center, and the minus(-). If you do not have an apple earphone, you can also use other earphones as long as it has these three-button
Headphone's three buttons
And I will use this button to create a ‘combo’ tips
to manoeuvre some Iphone/Ipod/IPad functions.
All we know about these buttons
are: to skip music, answer a phone call, and to increase/decrease the volume.
But I tell you, these buttons have still some functions. So let’s start
Legend:
SP = Short Press then release
SP = Short Press then release
LP = Long Press then release (probably 2 seconds time
interval)
C = Center
A = (+) sign of the earphone
B = (-) sign of the earphone
THE BASIC COMBO
- To Pause a song: SP(C) = meaning short press the center button once
- To Fast Forward: SP(C) + LP(C)
- To Rewind a song: SP(C) + SP(C) + LP(C)
- Skip a song: SP(C) + SP(C)
- Return to a previous song: SP(C) + SP(C) + SP(C)
THE INTERMEDIATE COMBO
- To answer a call/to finish a call: SP(C)
- To ignore incoming call: LP(C)
- When on call, and want to answer the new incoming call: SP(C)
a. To hangup the new answered call and switch
back: LP(C)
THE ULTIMATE COMBO
- Taking a photo: SP(A)
- To activate SIRI: LP(C) + say your command
That’s all folks. Hope you
learned something new. Comments are highly appreciated.
Every computer users need to know how to use and improve their computers, for those who want some 'common-user' tips just click it here. But for us, Geek users; we are the special kind of users: we want to do something new and complex. We want to go above and beyond the basics knowledge of computer techy, computer upgrading and improvement, we want to explore every place and possible tweaks of our system and make everything easier. So, without further ado, just click it here to gain some knowledge and tips about computer, especially for the geeks.
These are some great tips which I've tried myself, go, try and practice yourself. There is no harm in trying. If anything goes wrong, it is your additional learning. Be the computer geek you want to be!
People always like adventure and it takes a plan and proper equipment to be fully equipped in this adventure. And wherever you may go, gadgets are there to lessen the burden and make life much easier to complete. For those who are on the go and really likes adventure (Yes it's You!), here are some tips on what gadgets you must have inside your magic backpack.
Gadget #1: Cellphone. Either the latest smartphones or just the simple phone capable of communicating (capable of making a call and SMS) is enough to be put in your backpack. This is just to inform your loved ones and some people who are close to you in case of emergency. But it is recommended to have smartphones because of its multi-purpose functions.
Gadget #2: Camera. Yes, it is much better to have a separate gadget for taking a picture other than your smartphone in order to conserve the phone's battery life especially if you are taking a long trip and journey. And it is much better to take picture with a real camera.
Gadget #3: Universal Charger. In case of a long journey, a charger is needed in order to charge up your gadgets. But take note, it must be a charger which is not needed to plug into an electrical socket. The charger may look something like this, but of course this charger is from HTC.
HTC Charger
Gadget #5: MP3. Yes, no matter how busy you are, there will always be a time for relaxing and some time for unwinding just to listen to your favorite songs, bands, and the likes. And of course, you can sing along with your favorite tunes.
While browsing the Net, an article caught my attention. This article is entitled, 'How to Turn Your Phone Into a DIY Photo Projector for $1'. Here is the image of the finished projector.
While reading the article I was happy and amazed how the basic things in our life, could turn into a slide projector. By only using:
Image c/o http://content.photojojo.com
While reading the article I was happy and amazed how the basic things in our life, could turn into a slide projector. By only using:
- Shoebox
- Paperclip
- Smartphone
- Magnifying glass, or a large aperture lens
- X-acto knife or similar
- Electrical or black duct tape
Slide projectors can be build. So why buy expensive projectors when you can build one, well of course a digital phone is a necessary part to build one, but everything else are just cheap materials. Need some projects to build which only requires basic things of our daily life? Just keep updated here. Thanks for reading. The step by step procedures can be seen here.