April 17, 2012

DIY Motorcycle LED Brake Lights

Alan Parekh April 17, 2012 5

Â Â If you have ever had a motorcycle you know that being seen by other motorists is always on your mind. Pete Mills recently purchased a motorcycle and installed a custom brake light to combat this issue. His DIY Motorcycle LED Brake Light was inspired by a flashing brake light of an ambulance. His design flashed quickly when it is activated and then goes on solid. There is also

Automatic Stair Lighting

RGB LED DIY Stair Lighting using an Arduino Uno and TLC5940 chips

Alan Parekh April 17, 2012 1

Mike Szczys from Hack a Day shares a hack that he found by Geert on his Just a Thought blog. Geert wanted to jazz up his stairs but adding some DIY RGB LED stair lighting. He used an Arduino Uno for the brain and some TI TLC5940 chips to do the heavy lifting of doing the PWM (pulse width modulation) for all of the channels of LEDs. “We need a