If you want to waste time in a meaningful way, get yourself an hourglass. It’s simultaneously mesmerizing and terrifying to sit there and watch the seconds slip through the threshold that separates possibility from missed opportunity. [Ty and Gig]’s LED hourglass is equally beautiful to watch. It doesn’t actually tell time, but that’s perfectly fine […]
LED HOURGLASS MOVES LIKE THE REAL THING Continue Reading
When Pong hit the scene in the early 70s, there was something about the simplicity of the 2D monochrome tennis game that made it engaging enough that enthusiastic proto-gamers shorted-out machines by stuffing their coin boxes to overflowing. But even with the simplicity of Pong’s 2D gameplay, the question becomes: could it by made simpler
LINEAR PONG LOSES A DIMENSION BUT REMAINS CHALLENGING Continue Reading
Pyboard D-series (aka Pyboard D, or just PyBD) board was introduced during the Micropython presentation at FOSDEM 2019 and it’s build around a faster STM32F7 Cortex-M7 MCU, with 512Kb of RAM, and 2Mb of Flash, as well as built-in WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. It also features a pair of external Flash chips and a micro
Pyboard D Series MicroPython Board Features STM32F7 MCU, WiFi and Bluetooth Continue Reading
This is a creative cylindrical LED cube with proximity sensing by infrared led and photo-transistors. Interactive Cylindrical Cube includes: 8X8 royal blue LEDs, 12 infrared LEDs, 16 photo-transistors and all of them are bent & formed a cylindrical shape. Please see video below when this interactive cylindrical cube is used as flowerpot. Step 1: Bill
Interactive Cylindrical Cube Continue Reading
Hello! My name is Fiberbot, and I am so happy you are going to be making more of my friends. In this instructables you will learn exactly how to make a robot that looks just like me. I will also let you in on a little secret and share with you how to make me
Robotic E-textile Continue Reading
Soil moisture sensors are cheap and easy to interface with, to the point that combining one with an Arduino and blinking an LED when your potted plant is feeling a bit parched is a common beginners project. But what about on the long term? Outside of a simple proof of concept, what would it take
ESP32 SOIL MONITORS TAP INTO ULTRA-LOW POWER MODE Continue Reading
Hi, in this instructable you will learn how to build a very long lasting LED-Matrix-Candle. It looks very modern, doesn’t smoke 😉 and can be reloaded with your smartphonecharger. The yellow light gives you a very good expression of a real flame. To be exact: it is a video of a real flame which is
Matrix LED Candle Light Continue Reading
Love Spark is a heart-shaped pendant that blinks an LED every three seconds, I loosely based that on an incomplete psychology research by a friend that not-so-factually estimated that people thought of & interacted with their friends & loved ones every 3 seconds on average. So I guess I could say it’s not all just
Few things excite a Hackaday staff member more than a glowing LED, so it should be no surprise that combining them together into a matrix really gets us going. Make that matrix tiny, addressable, and chainable and you know it’ll be a hit at the virtual water cooler. We’ve seen [tinyledmatrix]’s work before but he’s
DISCRETE LEDS MAKE A MICRO DISPLAY Continue Reading
When it comes to the world of Microcontrollers, FPGAs, DSPs, or basically anything related to embedded devices, we have traditionally been accustomed to something averagely big (in regards to this domain) and even created some standards like SBCs (Single Board Computers) to categorize devices. What if we could have development boards that goes beyond the standard norms of the
FOMU RUNS MICROPYTHON AND FITS INTO YOUR USB PORT Continue Reading
