I haven’t been keeping up with the Ben Heck show for the past few months, back in September we featured the the Ben Heck Show when Ben built the custom XBOX controller. I had a look this weekend and Ben has been very busy making lots of new episodes. Love the huge ShopBot CNC machine. Ben goes through lots of the build steps that go into making his projects but
This LED Heart Valentine has a lot more meaning that a box of chocolates from the grocery store. It shows that there was a ton of work to make it work. The site isn’t in English but you can get the feel of what went on just by looking at the great picture log. Sure no lack of surface mount LEDs in this project! Via: HG Comments
The new on one at a time stair lighting controller option has become very popular option. A customer sent in the video below which shows the stair lighting system in action. The lower infrared beam is activated to show the lighting pattern going up the stairs, no one entered the stairwell so the camera could record the full effect. The second half of the video shows someone coming down
If you love to build your own computer system and pimp them out you should check out the new show called Mod Men. They take some stock computer parts and mash them into some cool creations. Custom paint, milling machines and more is what they use to take ordinary computer systems over the top. My favorite part of the first 2 episodes is at 9:04 of episode 2 where they
Viktor has made a Spinning LED Activity Indicator. Just connect it to your hard drive LED output and watch the ring of LEDs speed up and slow down based on hard drive activity. The original Spindicator can be found here, and this was indeed the inspiration for this version that Viktor built.
Do you have one of those Michael Jackson gloves and looking for a new electronics project? Why not build this Arduino based Drumming MIDI Glove that you can use to get your beat on. Thanks Bruno “Parts List: 1x Arduino board with at least 4 analog inputs. 4x Small LDR Light Resistor (it costs $ cents and are very precise) 4x 1K Resistor (or any other by changing thresholds and
Dig out the old 386 and 486 desktop computers out of the garage we now have a use for them! Youtube user Fun to the Head has stuffed two 3.5 inch floppy drives and two 5.25 inch floppy drives into a vintage computer case, with the magic of a modern PIC microcontroller the system is able to come to life and play the drives as if they were instruments. Via:
