Last year the comedy sketch show ‘Portlandia’ made fun of an arts and craft trend, where craft artists would take ordinary items and ‘put a bird on it’. I fell victim to a similar trend in the geek crowd: Take an ordinary silver item and add LEDs to ‘put a cylon in it’. 🙂 When […]
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As hard as it might be to believe, I had never built an electronic clock of any kind. I’ve always thought electronic clocks were passe and not worth the time to design and build one. In addition, I thought that all interesting electronic clocks designs had already been built so why bother building an also
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This display is based on an 8×8 RGB LED Matrix. For testing purposes it was connected to a standard Arduino board (Diecimila) using 4 shift registers. After getting it to work I permatized it on a fabbed PCB. The shift registers are 8-bit wide and are easily interfaced with the SPI protocol. Pulse width modulation
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Create a display of 8×8 square pixels that can work independently. And to easily reprogram it to display different animations. Also I don’t have a 3D printer, so I needed to make it out of things around the house. Supplies LEDs 5mm APA106 x 64 Arduino UNO Ice-cream tub Baking paper LCD Image Converter software https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcd-image-converter
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This is the first bicycle accessory gadget I made with Arduino. It’s a pattern-based backlight attached to the back-bag mounted on the bicycle luggage compartment. I’m riding an electric bicycle which can speed up around 24km/h at maximum. But I had fallen already three times and one of the incidents makes me go to the
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Every now and then you might be interested to input text to your arduino project. You can do it using Serial input but this would require Arduino to be always connected to a computer. In this tutorial I would show you how to implement text input using the small OLED display and 5 key keyboard
Ever need to have a Stargate handy? You can wear one around your neck and have it at the ready. Ears starting to bleed from the volume of the music at the club or that Euro-chic clothing retailer outlet? Activate the Stargate to jump to another world. Light sequence needs to be just right. Don’t
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How’s the world feeling right now? This box tells you. Powered by: an Arduino, a WiFly wireless module, an RGB LED, Twitter.com and a 9v battery. I’m a news junkie. I want to know everything that is going on in the world as soon as it happens. I want to wake up and know immediately if something big has happened overnight. However, I’m
Twitter Mood Light using an Arduino Read More »
One quick fore note: this is my first Instructable and my first large Arduino project, so if you see any stupid errors or have an idea of how things could be done better, then please let me know. Now that that’s out of the way I’ll begin, I started designing this around September last year as my A2
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My purpose for this project was to take a knot and “show” its construction by tracing its path. It was only through happenstance that I discovered my chosen medium (2 metres of NeoPixel LED lights) fit so well with Adafruit’s snow globe. You might choose not to knot your lights at all. You could just
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