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Share Your Green Idea…

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Chip

To get started you will need to create an account and log-in.
It’s fairly self explanatory, but for details about posting to a Wordpress blog, check here.
Be sure to choose “Green Challenge” as the category for your post.

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Autoloading Paintball Tank Cannon

Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Chip

Dead-by-Dawn is one serious “scenario paintball” team (check out this article in Wired Magazine).  These guys built a tank from a turf loader, but hey - other teams have tanks - DbD decided to put a double-barrel auto-loading cannon on theirs - and they used an AutomationDirect DL06 PLC to automate the loading and firing [...]

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Biodiesel Processor

Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Chip

Sam Flournoy has built a Biodiesel Processor and now he’s working on automating it using lots of Automation Direct components, including a DL06 PLC, C-more screen, and many others.  He submitted this picture:

His website and YouTube videos …

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Jack-the-Ripper

Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Jwestin

I wanted a way to rip my CD collection automatically. I have over 2000 “store bought” CDs, and I wanted to get them into I-tunes (or winapp, etc.) without having to sit at my PC for a month moving the CDs in and out of the PC CD drive.  There was an old automated CD [...]

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Magic Stacklight

Posted on April 9th, 2009 by Howard

We had some Automation Direct parts left over from a system integration job: an LED stacklight, a 18mm capacitive sensor, and several others.  I got bored one day and put some of them together just for fun.   With a couple of tiny 12 volt batteries inside, this stack light will now illuminate when ever it’s [...]

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Lighting Timers for Neighborhood Park

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Jack

Our Homeowner’s Association (HOA) wanted some lights at our beach area that members could easily turn on at night, but which would automatically go off after a couple of hours. I put together this project with three timers and some pushbuttons from AutomationDirect
that solves the problem nicely.
The timers have dials on the front, and can [...]

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Smiley’s Green Challenge

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Chip

Help Smiley go green! Do you have an idea for an automation project that has the potential to help the environment? Propose your ideas, and possibly win a CLICK PLC (or other automation parts) to use on your project. We’re giving away a CLICK PLC (or other automation equipment) each quarter to the best idea.
The [...]

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