I have been spending all sorts of time recently getting ready for the release of the Reactive Lighting – LED Stair Lighting System. The powerful stair lighting controller and wide variety of stair lights has gotten a lot of attention from some of the partners that we have been working with pre-launch. We will be launching the company tomorrow (March 31, 2011) at the Home Expressions show here in Winnipeg
There are lots of electronic projects that can be made at home but I would have never thought I would see a Scanning Electron Microscope that was made at home! The results are able to be watched on an oscilloscope. The comments of the article are great also and worth a read. You can see the system in operation in the video at 9:53. Via: Make “The lock washer is
Now that spring has arrived you might be looking for something new to build that can be used outside. Why not make something that can be used to protect your property in a non-lethal way? We have see lots of sentry guns over the years but quite a few of them has closed source code. This Sentry Gun Project has code that has been released which is sure to help
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
If you like home automation this iPhone controlled Kitchen Island would make an interesting addition to your system. Not sure how practical it is but wow would that ever be a conversation piece. If Tim Thaler has a island that is this great I would love to see the rest of his system! Via: Make “A hydraulic scissor lift is at bolted to the cement, and then a small frame
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
