Millie

@milperks
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Longtime twitter user trying this side of things out.

I'm an avid Home Assistant tinkerer and love any project involving LEDs.

Show threadMillieOct 22
@RobeeShepherd so satisfying!!
Show threadMillieOct 22
One 3D printed part later, fixed!!
MillieOct 22
I don't like to throw things away if they're fixable and Adam likes to do a job properly (whereas for DIY I will very much compromise between effort and output). Anyway this is why we ended up bench grinding my laundry basket legs
MillieJan 29, 2025
@NormanDunbar oh yikes! I will do, my soldering skills are not really good enough for that (yet!).
Show threadMillieJan 29, 2025
3D printed this cute little case that fits the battery in and a button! Just need to decide where I want the wires to come out now. My vision is that it might be attached to an LED necklace?
Show threadMillieJan 29, 2025
Stopped the test at 3.5 hours as I've realised the batteries don't have any BMS on them so I could potentially over discharge them. The battery was still at 3.8v though so it's looking good! BMS boards ordered 😅
Show threadMillieJan 29, 2025

@sldrant no they're very usable lithium batteries which is quite depressing! The small vapes have 0.5 Ah batteries in them and the larger ones have these which are 1.5 Ah.

Someone made an ebike battery out of them! I'm just looking to use them for leds though. I also wanted to try and divert some from landfill.

https://hackaday.com/2024/11/07/disposable-vape-batteries-power-ebike/

Disposable Vape Batteries Power EBike

There are a lot of things that get landfilled that have some marginal value, but generally if there’s not a huge amount of money to be made recycling things they won’t get recycled. It …

Hackaday
Show threadMillieJan 29, 2025
@sldrant yeah! I took a few apart. It needs BMS adding but works well!
Show threadMillieJan 29, 2025
WLED burn down test! Online calculator reckons 6 hours (1500 mAh capacity with ~200 mAh load) so I'm hoping for 4-5 hours.
Show threadMillieJan 27, 2025
Also @wonkatron said he was surprised the house wasn't on fire. Ffs.