Fast & Easy Fake-TV Light module built for under $5; with enhanced features. With the use of this device you can go for holidays or on vacation leaving your home with a lived in appearance and thus an added layer of security. “I’m up and I am a night owl … or perhaps asleep on the […]
Story I have been working out ways to make a minimal Arduino to fit in the smallest space possible, and limit the power consumption of the microcontroller. (You can go through this project for more info about reducing power consumption at: Reducing Arduino Power Consumption). You can assume this one is an extended version of
Arduino on Internal Oscillator Crystal as Clock Source Continue Reading
Story A bit of background. My brother came to me with an odd box that a friend of his asked someone to make so that they can determine the fastest contestant to push a button. The box consisted of some LEDs, two buttons, and two sets of bicycle bells that made some weird noises. It
2 Players Competition/Quiz Buzzer Box System Using Arduino Continue Reading
Chachka is born! Chachka is an Adafruit Trinket CLONE built from the ATtiny85 microcontroller. Because it is a current Adafruit product, it has a training guide and its own support forum and lots of sample code. All of this means that like an Uno clone, the Chachka will be well supported with firmware and libraries and
Introduction I’ve been fascinated with joule thief circuits since I made my first one. It’s amazing what all you can power from a single AA or AAA battery. The only problem is you can’t do much beyond light up an LED because the current isn’t “always on”. With a couple of extra components, you can
1. Light Therapy Overview & Introduction Sunlight simulation and light therapy light boxes are commonly used as light therapy for treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). My mom has SAD and after seeing her wimpy light box I thought there had to be something better out there, after some research I was really surprised at the underwhelming
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First Hello instructables. This is my first contact with : Instructables Arduino Programmable LED’s So please don’t trow rocks at me for noobish mistakes. Keeping that in mind I’m waiting to read your comments with grate interest and I’m open to any suggestion Features : big digits ( each digit is approximately the size of
Badges are amazing things. Better when you make your own. I was about to attend the 1st MakerFest at NID, Ahmedabad and thought of taking something unique to the event. Badge was a great option and suited the maker theme of the event. So, sitting down with a pen and paper i drew what it
Although Intersil’s ISL29501 time-of-flight (ToF) signal processing IC doesn’t have anything to do with the lighting applications I normally cover, I felt compelled to bring it to your attention because it’s one of the most innovative LED applications I’ve seen this year. The device requires little more than an external emitter (LED or laser) and
LED-based time-of-flight IC for object detection and distance measurement Continue Reading
Bare bones: The ATtiny85 on its Own The ATtiny is a small, inexpensive chip that can replace the Arduino in a project you have prototyped. This helps make the project smaller and more permanent, as well as freeing up the Arduino for more fun! The chip comes in a few different types – ones with
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