I had never imagined that a SMS can be viewed in such a cool way as shown in this video. This is being done by interfacing the phone to the display using an Arduino. The idea was an adaptation from a girl wanting to create a funky looking costume with a scrolling LED display of live texts sent from people at the party. So if you want to create
This RGB based LED ring is the second version of a project which has three LED driver chips which enhance the brightness of the color lights. I found the second version more appealing than its ancestor when I watched the video. The first version used only one LED driver IC which was less attractive than this one. If you want to give this cool RGB based LED ring a
 Thanks to Mike for sending in his German Word Clock. He has used some SPI controlled RGB lighting strips to make wiring and controlling the lights simpler. So that the letters look good he has built and installed an MDF baffle with 100 light holes in it.  “To control the clock, an ATmega8535 is used. This is a real-time clock (DS1307), a Bluetooth module and a Darlington array
  Check out this cool DIY Arduino Oscilloscope which uses a cheap Nokia 3310 Screen which can often be found for $5 or $10. Watch the video below to see how surprisingly good this thing actually works!  “The setup is really simple, connect an Arduino Pro Mini to a Nokia 3310 LCD screen, sample an analog port and then wright the pixels to the screen. I even added two
Who says The Clapper is old technology? Pete Mills blows off the dust from the vintage tech and breaths new life into the idea. The new Clever Clapper uses Claps and Laser Beams to control the Lights!  “In my version of the clapper if you clap twice within one second, the circuit toggles the lamp output. On becomes off and vice versa. If you clap three times within one
 James Burton from XRobots.co.uk has sent in the latest progress on his Bipedal Dynamic Stability Testing. Looks to be moving along very well. “It’s about half the height of an average person and I built all the parts from scratch with hand tools. It’s basically intended as a development platform so I have some more to build and some more experiments to do, but I’m at the stage
If you ever wanted a way to control your night light from across the room you are in luck. Dan reverse engineered his Ikea night light and stuffed in a bunch of electronics so that it can now be controlled by an Android Phone. Of course remote control is just the beginning, a smart Android app could now easily use it to display the status of many things. “It’s
