Very often, particularly on the Internet, we’re fooled into thinking bigger is always better. The fact remains that this isn’t always the case. When it comes to reflow ovens, for example if you’re working with short runs of small PCBs, or if you just don’t have a lot of space in the workshop, a smaller […]
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The Super Mario games were my childhood. I’ve always wanted to have some of the props in the games, and now that I have the tools to do it, I decided to start making them. The first up of that on my list is the Question Block. I managed to make the question block so
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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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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
USB SK6812 Desk Lamp Continue Reading
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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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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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
Lamp Mod With the ATtiny13 Continue Reading
[ Intro ] This product can you a way to keep your memory in a self-made frame, combining with a lamb decorated by yourself, increasing the visibility and exposure of the image being kept in the memory lamp, creating your own unique memory. Features of this memory lamp: 1. Can be decorated in your own
Welcome to this instructable, this time I will be showing you how to make the newest version of my ARC Reactor Mood lamp I did a couple of months ago. This time it won’t be a mood lamp, but a lamp that changes depending on the different colors used by Iron Man Suits in the
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The International Space Station (ISS) is one of greatest feat of engineering achievements by mankind. It is a space station (habitable artificial satellite) in low Earth orbit. The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and other fields. The station is suited for
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