Last March, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino registered a new limited company in London, and booked a booth at CES, the consumer electronics trade show, taking place 10 months later. She had no team, and only a dated prototype product that she had designed back in 2005. “I thought what’s the biggest kick in the ass that I […]
Making the Good Night Lamp using Arduino Continue Reading
Throwies are great. They have a minimal parts count – 2 or 3 depending on whether you use a magnet – and produce a great effect. They are very cheap and easy but not highly efficient: 1) They are on all the time, so on average they waste half of their energy shining during the
Throwduino Basic – Light-Sensing Flashing Throwie Continue Reading
What if making an Arduino, or wiring up an Arduino was as easy as printing one out? In this tutorial we printed our own Arduino Pro Mini board using a pen plotter and the Electroninks Circuit Scribe (a rollerball pen with highly conductive ink). Within 15 minutes we printed the board, placed components down with
Paperduino 2.0 with Circuit Scribe – Paper Arduino Continue Reading
I was always impressed by the Daft Punk Coffee Table. Being able to light up a bunch of LEDs and flash them in patterns has so many applications. It was one of the reasons why I bought an Arduino seeing how it could control a matrix of LED lights.This is my attempt at building the
Daft Punk LED Matrix Breakout Board Continue Reading
This is a DIY variable resistor I created as an interface for live performance– like a stomp box. I designed it as a project my audio students could build with materials we already have in the classroom. The result is a variable resistor that can be triggered with just a little pressure from hands or
The Clamshell Stompbox Continue Reading
QR codes are addicting. Smartphones are smart enough to read them from virtually any angle or orientation. But imagine taking it a step further. I had dreams of a digital LED array that I could program with QR codes, and I wanted it really big! I used 16 matrices to create the QR code that
Build Your Own Programmable LED Matrix Continue Reading
If you have looked at my 5 LED ATtiny85 POV display, we programmed the ATtiny with the Arduino. (If you haven’t seen it, click here) We will be doing the same thing for this LED Dice project. The total parts cost for this project is about $5-$10. (Not including the Arduino board and the tools.)
ATtiny85/45/25 LED dice (Super Simple and CHEAP!) Continue Reading
After seeing all the different instructables for Led cubes I was still left with a lot of unanswered questions. So after reading everything I could find this is what I got. I decided to make the instructable after building it…so ill try to recreate the process the best I can. This cube is different from others for
Make A 4x4x4 LED Cube Using Arduino Continue Reading
This is a little art project I made with 95 RGB LEDs arranged in a 3D cylinder shape, sitting atop a microcontroller-based driver circuit. The LEDs are individually addressable, and when you power it on, the software cycles through a series of animations, e.g. various moving rainbowy patterns, “rain”, “fireworks”, and so on. It doesn’t
LED Cylinder using Arduino Continue Reading
I made this project on the same night that my Arduino Duemilanove arrived from Cool Components. After being an Instructables member for about a year I though it was time I should contribute. There is another Arduino traffic light project similar to this, but it is much more complex; mine is aimed at beginners and
Arduino traffic lights Continue Reading
