January 2012

DIY IR Trip Sensor based Stairway LED Lighting

Instructables member ElJefeUno brought an awesome electronics project of building an Infra-red (IR) light trip sensor to light up your stairway. The sensor uses a directional IR LED beamed at a sensor that shoots past where you’ll walk. When you interrupt the light from the LED, the LEDs turn on for a period of time that you can adjust. Advantages of using IR LEDs includes: safe operation, low power consumption,

Increase your Fan Speed

  Are you getting fed up with your Fan’s speed? If Yes! then here is the solution. Circuit-projects brings a fantastic tutorial that will help you to alter the power of your Fan’s motor winding.  This will help in increasing your Fan’s speed. Even you can monitor how fast the spin of your fan. 

Porting Plex Client for Jailbroken Apple TV 2G

Ijailbreak member DustyÂÂhas shared a nice tutorial that will help you to successfully install Plex, the popular Mac-based and iOS media solution on your jailbroken Apple TV 2G.ÂÂOnce you will have Plex server running you can play any Plex content on your AppleTV. Instructions on how to install the Plex plugin are posted on the Plex forums and your Apple TV 2G must be jailbroken using the latest version of

DIY Arduino Intervalometer

  If you love taking pictures you either have or need to purchase a Intervalometer, if you love DIY electronics you should look into building your own. Nice thing is there is a great new Arduino based DIY Intervalometer to get you started.  “After some thinking, I convinced myself that I needed a navigating menu and at least these 4 different operating modes: input mode: set the various options confirmation

Ecoglo's Arena Stair Lighting

With Ecoglo’s arena stair lighting now you can keep your fans safe and secure. This arena stair lighting is built to prevent trips, slips and falls, as well as light the way in an emergency. Custom designs of these glow-in-the-dark strips can also be made available that fits to any set of steps, and guaranteed to add a whole new level of safety to your venue. Ecoglo’s arena stair lighting is based on the principle of

Frankenkindle

  Glen Johnson built this Frankenkindle to help out his sister who has cerebral palsy. It uses some controls that were scavenged from a different device which has big easy to press buttons. Buttons on the added keypad have been made to activate macros that perform features on the Kindle. It is a bit slower than the normal Kindle controls but since this is a book reader and not a

World's first crazy digital Foosball Table

   Look on this crazy digital Foosball Table connected over Internet. You can do lot of amazing things, once you’ll be able to get this tble online. There are number of salient features of it like: – The Blueprint – The Mobile WebApp – The Agency Foosball league You’ll require a very few components to build your own Foosball Table like – Arduino Uno, WiFly Shield, Stackable Header Kit and Zeitschalter mit IR-Lichtschranken.