When I was working on the Toy Magnetic Levitation project with a solenoid coil, I thought to myself, why didn’t I make a coil winder. So I took my times to build a simple coil winder based on GRBL firmware and it was made from PVC pipes. I’m willing to share how I made it, please check […]
This was my first animated Halloween prop. I found this witch at the local hardware store. It was meant to hang up by a cord and if someone came close to it, an infrared sensor would trigger the prop. The prop has LED eyes that would light up and it would trigger a voice tract
About a week or so after Halloween last year (pre-COVID), I happened to be in Home Depot and back in a far corner bin were several Halloween items very heavily discounted. They were just trying to get rid of them as fast as they could. There were two life-sized animated knights that I got for
The of the shelf Keypad Matrix is great but they only come in numeric or alphanumeric types. If you want to make a Keypad Matrix whose keys are designed for your needs then this is the Instructable for you. In this Instructables, I will make a keypad matrix and then utilize it as a shortcut
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In this Instructable, we will describe how to turn a “retro” oil lamp into a NeoPixels based rechargeable lamp with colorful light effects. Supplies Arduino nano 12 bits NeoPixel ring Micro USB 5V 1A TP4056 Lithium battery charger module 3.7V 9800mAh Lipo Li-polymer Battery Rotary encoder Ec11 or KY-040 Module Self-locking square button switch An
Here comes a simple Graphic Equalizer showing 14 audio bands from 60Hz up to 16kHz. It consist of a PCB based on MSGEQ7 and ESP dev board. Since a MSGEQ7 chip recognizes 7 bands only and an ESP dev board gives us a chance to read a single analog input only, there was a trick
Seeing smart home products being more common in our lives, I’ve started to think about the relationship between people and these products. If one day, smart home products become an indispensable part of everyone’s life, what attitudes should we take to coexist with them? How are we going to treat them? We like to call
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This Instructable will show you how to make an atmosphere lamp that lights up just like making little waves on the water surface. It can be placed on your table, shelf, or bedside to create a harmonious atmosphere, bringing an absorbing experience to the user. To do this, you’ll first want to gather the following
Autonomous centraline with an esp8266 that grab and store data from inverter and show charts and various data of production and can send notification email if there are some problems. It is a quite user-friendly browser based monitoring solution, It’s allows to track energy produced on a solar power plant in a simple and intuitive fashion. It’s can track key energy metrics as well as the
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I recently had the idea to create a catapult, But not just any kind of catapult, an electronic catapult! I wanted something I could just sit it down hit some buttons and watch it do its thing without being to big. This is what I came up with: It is a little bigger than what
