If you need an easy way to control the light color of your strip lights this weekend project uses an android phone to send data to an Arduino via a USB cable. You are able to select various colors on the android device and have the LED strip instantly display what you are doing. I think using an Ethernet connected Arduino and a WiFi app would make for a
Waking up gradually is a great way to start your day. There are two methods that are normally done to do this sound and light. I often set my phone to gradually increase the alarm volume over several minutes. This sure beats the other standard alarm clock that is loud enough to wake up everyone in the house and only have one volume level. I have been wanting to
 Camille and Genevieve Beatty who are 11 and 13 have built a great looking Mars Rover in their Garage. It guess it helps that their dad has a fully equipped robot building setup, but from looking at the build pictures I am thinking that the girls actually did most of the work. I am sure the dad helped along the way but that is how we learn right.
The raspberrywebserver.com is running on this Raspberry Pi Cluster Web Server. Visit the site to see all of the details so you can build your own. Steve figures that a 20 Raspberry Pi cluster would be equivalent to a PC server so it isn’t as powerful as a full blown server but it feels very fast and responsive when I tried it! Via: HG Comments “Clusters can be used
This Open Source DIY Cellphone might not be the latest and greatest Samsung phone but it is something that you can build yourself. It is Arduino based and all of the details can be found here. Via: Electronics Lab and Arduino Blog “The DIY Cellphone is a working (albeit basic) cellphone that you can make yourself. It can make and receive phone calls and text messages, store names and
FozzTexx shows how he built a system that allows a Raspberry Pi to act as a Commodore 64 Disk Drive. His C-64 is tricked out with an Ethernet card so he shows us how he can pull a directory listing from the Raspberry Pi drive and loads an internet browser. It works but isn’t really usable for anything modern. The drive access is very slow due to the speed
 This is a neat project. The DIY Analog VU Meter and Clock can move to the music when in VU mode and also act as an analog clock to let you keep track of time. “I made an old style analog VU meter and Clock using 2 analog panel meters, an Arduino, a real time clock, and other simple components. How it works: The unit plugs into a standard
