Controlling your computer with a wave of the hand seems like something from science fiction, and for good reason. From Minority Report to Iron Man, we’ve seen plenty of famous actors controlling their high-tech computer systems by wildly gesticulating in the air. Meanwhile, we’re all stuck using keyboards and mice like a bunch of chumps. But it doesn’t […]
LOW-COST COMPUTER GESTURE CONTROL WITH AN I2C SENSOR Continue Reading
It’s one thing to have an idea (especially a hardware-based idea) and it’s another thing to bring it to life. Rapid Prototyping using tools like 3D Printer has opened a lot of opportunities for the everyday makers, hardware enthusiasts, and hackers. For the person looking to build that next cool thing, maybe a PoV (Persistence of Vision)
TOP 10 WEBSITES TO FIND FOOTPRINTS FOR YOUR NEXT PCB PROJECT Continue Reading
Normally, when a project calls for addressable LEDs, we just throw a strip of WS2812s and an Arduino together, cobble together some code from the examples in the FastLED library, and call it a day. We don’t put much thought into what’s going on under the hood, unless and until we run into an LED project
COOL WS2811 TRICK MAKES LED ART INSTALLATION SMOOTH Continue Reading
Want to display a PNG file on a display attached to an Arduino or other microcontroller board? You’ll want to look at [Larry Bank]’s PNGdec, the Arduino-friendly PNG decoder library which makes it much easier to work with PNG files on your chosen microcontroller. The PNG image format supports useful features like lossless compression, and was generally
PNG IMAGE DECODING LIBRARY DOES IT WITH MINIMAL RAM Continue Reading
In this instructable, I will show you how to build a trampoline that changes colors whenever you jump on it! Step 1: The Things You Need Materials: 3 rolls of wire, different colors, the thinner the better Solder, the thinner the better – I had thick solder wires in the beginning, and it melted so
Traditionally, a forum full of technical users trying integrate their own hardware into a game system for the purposes of gaining unfettered access to its entire software library was the kind of thing that would keep engineers at Sony and Nintendo up at night. The development and proliferation of so called “mod chips” were an
ARDUBOY FX MOD-CHIP: NOW YOU’RE PLAYING WITH POWER Continue Reading
For the last month or so I’ve been working on a project involving a NeoPixel, I chose to use a NeoPixel instead of the usual RGB LED strip because I felt that the individual addressable LEDs would be easier to work and create better effects. While this is true I did not take into account the learning curb
Hello internet people, This is gonna be about how to make what DEFINITELY isn’t a rip off of a mobile game on an arduino uno r3. so to start, your gonna need all the parts, which are as follows!1x Arduino Uno r3 ($42) 2x LCD Keypad Shield ($19 each) 5x buttons 5x 220Ω resistors 28x wires Alright, once you’ve got all
In this tutorial we’re going to play with a gesture sensor (APDS-9960) and a neopixel ring to learn how to combine them both using an Arduino UNO. The end product will respond to left – right gestures by animating led movement right or left, and to up-down gestures by changing leds color. In the next
Controlling a Neopixel Led Ring With a Gesture Sensor Continue Reading
In this project, I made an infinity mirror based on a dodecahedron that reacts to sound . Step 1: Materials Essential materials: Arduino Uno 3mm thick 100x50cm MDF 2mm thick 100x50cm plexiglass 3 meter WS2812B LEDstrip 60 LEDs/m Sound Detection Sensor Module 3-PIN Thin electric wire (10ish meter total) Breadboard Perfboard/stripboard Simple rectangular rocker switch
