We featured the RGB LED Vehicle Turn Signals that StarfireMX developed for his Ford Mustang. StarfireMX has now completed the Custom RGB LED Turn Signals and they look fantastic. Most of the features can’t be used on the road but this is a show car to it does have a chance to shine and show off the bling. The system used a number of Arduino based controllers and XBee wireless
The prize this week is a solar flashlight, if you want to use this as a flashlight you better charge it during the day and not keep it hidden in a drawer. 🙂 I am thinking that the housing could make for a very small surface mount project. Not sure if the solar cell would have enough power to energize a very low current circuit but I would think it
In the day where every store bought Halloween prop and most DIY props have some type of controller making things happen in the background it is neat to see a design like this. Youtube user badephemeris has built this Drum controlled Animatronic Halloween Head. Like a player piano or some of the old music boxes it uses a reads information from a rolling drum to make things happen. In this
If you want to scare the pants off your trick or treaters this Halloween you need some props that have some movement. Even better is something that reaches out and touches the victim. Youtube user Jason LeSueur Tatum is working in a spider prop that does just that, it uses a Parallax PIR sensor to detect the person, an Arduino then controls a solenoid which allows air to suck and
Russell Cameron built this Puppy Robot for his son to play with and after watching the video I can see that it was a huge success! “The robot is relatively simple to build and is made from robot parts and accessories available in many online robot shops. You only need a couple of screwdrivers and some pliers. No soldering required!.”
Remember the days when floppy drives were all the rage. Well I don’t miss those slow noisy things, it’s hard to believe that a large floppy was one that held 1.44MB of data. You would need 10 of them to store a modern picture these days! Thankfully there is still a use for these relics, you can connect them to a custom microcontroller and have it play some music using
Don Howdeshell sent in this great Arduino Ambilight project. Sure seems like the Ambilight projects will continue to be popular. This one uses an Arduino at the core and ShiftBrite LED lights. You can see the effects here before the diffusion was added but make sure you watch the video below where the full effects of the lighting system are shown off! “The first challenge was to construct my own
