I have been spending all sorts of time recently getting ready for the release of the Reactive Lighting – LED Stair Lighting System. The powerful stair lighting controller and wide variety of stair lights has gotten a lot of attention from some of the partners that we have been working with pre-launch. We will be launching the company tomorrow (March 31, 2011) at the Home Expressions show here in Winnipeg
Remember those magic 8 balls that would help you make decisions? Well Pete Mills decided to make one but of course it isn’t filled with fluid this Magic 8 Ball is filled with electronic goodness. It is controlled by a ATMega328 and if you want to make your own Pete has posted the code here. “You can see the mercury switch in the picture below. It is hot glued to
What do you use your touchpad for? Moving a mouse around on your computer screen? Well now there is a cool new use for your typical computer touchpad, Dave from Plastibots has made a Dual LED Desk Light Controller that uses it for lighting control. “Relative mode is the norm. Â It works like you would expect it to on a laptop. Â No matter where you put your finger and move
Peter Balch who is a hardware designer from Scotland sent in this great looking Steampunk Mouse Hack. It is made out of wood just the original mouse was. The green glow on the brain in the jar is great, but it isn’t for the squeamish since you are holding a brain after all. Peter built the project from some guts of an optical mouse which he hacked into a mush
If you enjoy photography you know that it can be very hard to capture certain events. Our friend Viktor has built this DIY Lightning Detection for Photography which has a PIC microcontroller controlling the events. The photodiode monitors the ambient light levels and triggers the camera when it sees a lightning strike. This project is safe for your camera since it is optically isolated for your cameras protection. Viktor will
There are lots of electronic projects that can be made at home but I would have never thought I would see a Scanning Electron Microscope that was made at home! The results are able to be watched on an oscilloscope. The comments of the article are great also and worth a read. You can see the system in operation in the video at 9:53. Via: Make “The lock washer is
Now that spring has arrived you might be looking for something new to build that can be used outside. Why not make something that can be used to protect your property in a non-lethal way? We have see lots of sentry guns over the years but quite a few of them has closed source code. This Sentry Gun Project has code that has been released which is sure to help
