This project originated from a request of a friend. He asked me to build a so-called smile counter for their college dorm – a segmented display which can show a number. This number must increment every time someone pushed a button and should be memorized even if power goes out. The counter was counting smiles: […]
88888: the Electronic Smile Counter Continue Reading
With 2020 being the year of COVID, having a toddler that was stuck at home (especially during the winter) presented the need for, well, stuff to do. So, my wife and I decided to turn our basement into a play place for our little girl. We started by designing and building an indoor slide with
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Now a days we are spending a lot of time at home, studying and working virtualy, so why not to make our workspace greater with a custom and smart lighting system Arduino and Ws2812b LEDs based. Here I show you how build your Smart Desk LED Light that you can control with an IR remote
Smart Desk LED Light | Smart Lighting W/ Arduino | Neopixels Workspace Continue Reading
Hello and welcome back to another Instructable. In the previous two Instructables, I have shown you how I created PCB coils in Kicad using a Python script, covered the basics of an H bridge, and showed you how I will be using them to control the segments of the 7-segment mechanical display. Make sure you
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Hello all! This instructable happens to be part 3 of my ESP series where I continue to experiment and explore the various features of the ESP 8266-01 board. In the first and second part of the series I have mentioned the wonderful capability of this little board to support I2C communication and also interfaced the
Extending GPIOs of ESP8266-01 and IoT || Exploring ESP8266:Part 3 Continue Reading
The objectives of this project were (1) to make an object float, by means of magnetic levitation and controlled by an Arduino Nano and (2) documenting the whole process allowing other people to build one on their own. There were some requirements, too. First, I wanted an object of a certain size and weight, floating
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What’s better in the morning than a hot cup of tea?You should keep to the brewing time so that the tea tastes the way you want it to. Unfortunately, there’s always a lot to do and the timer beeps when you’re somewhere else. So we need an automatic “tea extraction machine”….. As always, there are
Hi There, Recently, I finished up on my DIY project Wilson: the IoT hat. Because of the big fun I had creating and using this IoT hat, and given the wonderful feedback it provided to the wearer, I really want to share this project with you. Wilson is a hat equipped with a multicolor LED
Wilson – the IoT Hat Continue Reading
Responsive Pneumatic Envelop (A useless machine) Mockingly inspired by the blowfish, Bounce Back builds on state of the art bubble wrap shipping envelops by only inflating its bubbles when frightened by rough handling. Inversely, when the package is not being shuck, it will not inflate itself. Creators: Christian Gotthilf Steixner, Ayşe Esin Durmaz Bounce Back!
Sometimes you need to throw something away, but your hands are either full of garbage, or they’re contaminated with raw chicken or meat. I was able to make this automatic opening garbage bin with an Arduino Uno, and some supplies from Amazon, Ace Hardware and a few spare parts around the house. The prices were
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