Ever wanted to visualize your brain activity in real-time? Move an object on a screen with your mind? EEG devices are fantastic fun and allow you to do such things! This tutorial will show you how to make an illumino: a recreational EEG hat that turns your brainwaves into light. I always wanted my own […]
Illumino: EEG hat with Arduino turns brain activity into light Continue Reading
Tools: 1. Drill 2. 3/4″ and 1/4″ drill bits Step 1: Instructabot Platform I used a piece of wood 6″ x 12″ x 0.5 Step 2: Electronics Now for the electronics… The brain of the robot is an Arduino UNO which reads the accelerometer and gives commands to the motor controller which in turn powers
Self Balancing Segway Instructabot Continue Reading
Use the force, Luke. Close your eyes, hold on tight to your light saber and…….. Don’t touch that dial. No tweaking the knobs. Just wave your hands in front of the two sensitive sensors embedded in this bespoke piece of wearable tech. The garment has an embedded Adafruit Flora wearable microprocessor to generate R2-D2 theremin
Star Wars Adafruit Flora Theremin LED Bra Continue Reading
The Internet has become a pretty good mask to portray yourself as anything you want. This includes hiding your true emotions when posting facebook statuses, IMing someone, or sending emails (like telling you’re boss they are awesome when they are really a jerk). But what about talking to someone in real life? How do you
Emoticon Helmet using Arduino Continue Reading
This Instructable will walk you through my process of making a Slot Machine costume with addressable leds controlled with an arduino! Step 2: Lets Get started Picture set up: I found my slot picture online that the best graphic that when enlarged would stay nice and clear. Be sure to follow the directions on
Led Slot Machine Costume using Arduino Continue Reading
They are so dang cute. If you have ever seen the cool promo for the Necomimi Neurowear wearable set of cat ears that respond to brainwaves, you would want a set too. But it seems they may be vaporware since it hasn’t materialized on the market yet, not that I would be able to afford
Necomimi Arduino Cat Ears Continue Reading
So, instead of buying a nightlight for my kid’s room, I decided I could do a much better job of it. This nightlight cycles through 1500 colors over 7 mins and turns on when it is dark and turns off when it is light. It is also small enough into small objects to add effect.
Color Changing Nightlight using Arduino Continue Reading
Have your ever seen any of “Ben Hecks” portable console builds? Well if you haven’t, he often uses these Chinese Famicom clone consoles. These cloned consoles are often times refered to as NOAC’s, meaning NES On A Chip. They are called this because they are a fully functional Nintendo Entertainment System literally on one chip.
NES in a Cartridge using Arduino Continue Reading
Concept: I would like to make a jacket that has a small LCD screen to create subtexts for interpersonal human interaction. The user would use a limited “keyboard” with force sensors and buttons under soft silicone keys to create computer textual subtitles to human interaction (textual emoticons, ie: :P). The dichotomy between personal interaction that
Make an Emoticon Jacket with LCD screen using Arduino Continue Reading
Where the honeybee’s division of labor has stayed on a steady progression for 25 million years… our human superorganism has grown more complex and in all directions… hence the bee counter… By: thomashudson.org Live data from – June 25, 2012 I’ve moved away from live data… my version 2 has an SD card and I’m
Honey Bee Counter using Arduino Continue Reading
