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
William from the Hackers Workbench designed a DIY Keypad Lock. What’s the big deal you ask, well just like the electronics of a time long ago there are no microcontrollers anywhere to be found. Sounds like a simple project until you think about how to get it done using only a handful of gates. Have a look at the project page for schematics and a clear circuit explanation.
You might remember the ‘69 Pontiac GTO controlled using a iPod Touch that we featured last year. Dave Phipps has made a new video that goes over how everything was tied together to make the RedEye control the entire system. Dave does some great work! I have seen the inside of some other custom car mods and some of them are just a rats nest of wires, Dave on the
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
Want to control an army of robots with the sound of your voice? Well have a look at this Speech-Controlled Arduino Robot for a good head start. Carlos Asmat has done a great job with the video that shows how everything goes together. “For this project, I used the DFRobotShop Rover (a mobile Arduino kit), the VRbot speech recognition module by Veear, two XBee modules, an Arduino Uno, two XBee
Jessica Bethune, Aiswary Kolisetty, Jessica Noglows and Rob Sobecki built this Master Lock Cracking project. I could have used this in junior high when I forgot my combination and needed to get my lock cut off. There is a mechanical spinner and a puller, the rest is all PIC microcontroller code. “The PIC was required to interface several hardware components to crack open a MasterLock with our LockCracker. The PIC
Our friend Pete Mills has built an interesting visual project, it is a DIY Spinning Mirror Laser Light Show which was built into a cigar box. If you are wanting to make your own Pete has made the code available, this could be made without a controller but in this design a ATMega328 allows this project to be very powerful and flexible. “When a mirror is mounted on a motor
