How do you make a working pke meter?

Answer 1

you will need

1. Buy an Iona Shoe Polisher. They're ancient, made in the 1950's and hard to find. You can occasionally find one on eBay.

• Iona Shoe Polisher.

Go to the Hyperdyne website and buy:

A Hyperdyne PKE light board.

A Hyperdyne PKE wing kit.

and the servos that they recommend to drive the wings.

Open the Iona Shoe Polisher, dispose of the internal workings

Cut holes for the face display and the buttons.

Cut off the bottom of the handle, fill with putty and smooth it over.

Make a ribbed backing for cosmetic and accuracy reasons. Mine isn't quite right. I used

textured sty Cut openings for the speakers (mounted inside) to allow sound through. The thin slices blend with the texture of the styrene plastic backing.

The servos are mounted on the sides with enough room for the PKE board to fit in-between.

In my case I added my own additional sounds by inserting a second item I found in a surpluselectronics shop. The mini-speaker is against the lower sound holes. The green board is what controls it.The yellow PKE board from Hyperdyne goes over this. (or under, depending on your perspective)

You can see the smaller board with LEDs facing upward here. The PKE board in mine is sandwiched between the PKE face display LED board and that little green sound board I talked about on the left.

• • My build was customized by de-soldering the buttons included with the PKE kit to use my own. Hyperdyne's are fine, but I needed something else to suit my needs. This pic is a mess but hey, it works for me. The LEDs can be seen hanging from wires near the bottom half.

• I don't have any pics of how to make the wings, but really if you buy the Hyperdyne kit and know how to work with clay, it's a total no-brainer.
• Some paint and a clear coat later, the PKE is looking good.

by kevin pham