So I asked SWMBO what she would like for Christmas :-(
Anyone know where I can get, or how I can make, a clipboard with a writing light for taking notes in a darkened lecture room? Even a pen with a light in it would be good. She goes to a lot of local societies and they always turn the lights off for slide shows, so she can't take notes. I suggested a headlamp like miners use, but then she couldn't look up at the screen :-)
R.
Duh! one of these,I'm sure you could manage making one though?
Maplin have the very thing...search for torches and its the very first light at £3.99
Or code number VH76H
Mount strip of small profile wood along top of board, mount row of LEDs to it, either monochrome or white, and run these off a battery of cells via either a dropper R in series with a pot, or else a current regulator. Ask if more details wanted.
Another readily buyable option is a small sized light box, maybe half A4 size, that will accept batteries. But you'll need to replace the light with something much lower power.
NT
Mount strip of small profile wood along top of board, mount row of LEDs to it, either monochrome or white, and run these off a battery of cells via either a dropper R in series with a pot, or else a current regulator. Ask if more details wanted.
Another readily buyable option is a small sized light box, maybe half A4 size, that will accept batteries. But you'll need to replace the light with something much lower power.
In fact one could probably adapt a lunchbox / rectacngular storage box for this.
NT
Small Blacklight lamp and a UV pen.
typing clip on reading light .co.uk into google gives lots of results including
Owain
Why not get her to use a miniature tape recorder to record the whole thing? She can then make notes at her leisure in good lighting conditions.
A self contained battery operated fluorescent - they come in a 150mm length. Better battery life than a filament torch and more even light than an LED type. Maplin used to do them. The one I've got works fine of rechargeable AA cells.
Why can't she have M & S vouchers like everyone else?
Take a notebook computer with a gooseneck keyboard light pluged into the USB port. ;-)
Colin Bignell
Try a craft shop. My missus & her sister do lots of cross stitch & the like and they both use lights that clip onto the frames.
address - it might just not get there....
The problem with any illuminated help is that it can distract whoever is sitting next to the note taker.
I always found that there was enough light to take notes during a slide show. They weren't always legible but even my 'best' writing is difficult for me and impossible for anyone else :-(
Whoever invented the keyboard is my patron saint.
Mary
Don't buy anything from Maplins. My broadband started to go slow and my ISP said I needed a new filter. Maplins said I needed new cable. I bought new cable but the broadband speeded up again - must have been BT. So I took the cable back. But because it had been machine packed there is no way I would return it "in the same condition". The cable WAS "in the same condition". But the idiots said the packing had to be the same -- impossible!
If they want to get things back "correctly" they should use packing it is possible to pack.
Every other company I've taken anything back to, in living memory has accepted it back with full refund.
Except Maplins.
Don't even think of shopping with them.
Look you dozey pilock, you have said that twice at least already.
If you open a non resealable package, then why would you expect them to take something back if it is not faulty?
Should they be expected to pay for your inability to diagnose your problem?
If the goods aren't faulty they are under no obligation to give a refund and it doesn't seem totally unreasonable to me to refuse to give a refund if the goods can't be put straight back on the shelves. Bad PR perhaps.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Richard Downing saying something like:
An LED on a flexy stem - such things are available.
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