The need for such modernization arose when used in remote buildings located near a country house.Adults and especially children turned on and forgot to turn off the lamp. As a result, the batteries drained quickly. I decided to replace the incandescent bulb with more economical and efficient LEDs and limit the lamp run time. The […]
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Bring a snippet of the Dark Side to your living room with this unique voice-activated lamp. A functional work of art that is both useful and pleasing to look at. Switching on or off? All lamps do that! Changing brightness? Very common! But can yours do this? *cue to turn volume up for intro video* Rad, innit? Besides
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In this tutorial we’re going to make an internet connected smart lamp. This will go deep into internet of things and opens up a world of home automation! The lamp is WiFi connected and built to have an open message protocol. This means you can select whatever control mode you want! It can be controlled
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In this instructable, I will be showing you how to build HALO, or Handy Arduino Lamp Rev1.0. HALO is a simple lamp, powered by Arduino Nano. It has a total footprint of about 2″ by 3″, and a weighted wood base for extreme stability. The flexible neck and 12 super-bright NeoPixels allow it to easily illuminate every detail
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The Indigo Butterflies looks so awesome, Aren’t they? Colors, Colors, Everywhere. Some are here, and some are there. Mood Lighting to be Happy, Relaxed, or Focused. In this Instructable I’ll show you how I build an Acrylic LED Lamp with WS2812B addressable RGB LEDs, Acrylic Cylinder with engraved butterflies and flowers on it and Wooden base with
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People in the western world spend a lot of time sitting. At the desk, driving around, watching TV and more. Sometimes, sitting too much can harm your body and harm your focusing abilities. Walking and standing up after a given time is crucial to perform better in life. As students we spend a lot of
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Call us easily amused, but we think it’s pretty amazing what can be done with a microcontroller, some RGB LEDs, and a little bit of plastic. Case in point is [andrei.erdei]’s beautiful and quite approachable fiber optic LED lamp. It’s a desktop-friendly version of a similar piece [andrei] made that is roughly nine times the size
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Instructables member Qttting_F has published a fantastic project detailing how to build a Water Surface Lamp, using a little Ardunio coding and hardware, combined with a few LED lights to great effect. Check outage video below to learn more and see the unique light in action. This Instructable will show you how to make an
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I accumulated several printers, why… because it was cheaper to continuously buy new ones than buy the ink for the old ones. Anyways, I got tired of stacking them up in the corner and decided to pull them apart. They were a treasure trove of parts, including these nifty LED tubes. After closer investigation, I
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Like many modern smart home gadgets, Belkin’s Wemo brand of smart plugs has a tendency to phone home every time you turn on a lamp. [Gigawatts] wasn’t having it, so they figured out how to flash the device with OpenWRT and replicated its original functionality with a web interface. Unfortunately this stopped working after awhile,
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