DN Staff

October 26, 2016

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Gadget Freak Case #132: A Spiffy Face-Lift for An Old-Time Toy

Luis Fernando Espinal Ceballos of Colombia wanted to give his cousin's son the slot track racing set he loved as a child. But the toy seemed unbearably old-fashioned. So Luis jazzed it up with a new electronic control system. He dumped the old battery box and replaced it with a used PC power supply and rewired the entire system for tighter control. He also added a lap counter to the circuit and upgraded the cars from old Lotus models to new Porsche and BMW models.

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 Gadget Freak Case 132

Amt

Part Description

Allied Part #

1

LM555 Timer; 8-Pin MDIP

288-0605

1

Transistor; PNP; Silicon

935-6102

2

Metal Film Resistor

840-0399

2

Switching Diode

411-0008

1

Rectifier

950-0206

1

Carbon Film Resistor

296-6493

1

Wire-Wound Resistor

895-4243

1

Heat Sink, Vertical Mount

619-0170

2

Capacitors

507-0651

1

Electrolytic Capacitor

852-6566

 

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