 If you are looking to jazz up your look this Halloween why not add some lighting effects to your face! Adafruit has a great tutorial on how to use their GEMMA microcontroller to make it happen. The tiny GEMMA is using a Attiny85 and is programmed using Arduino, it looks to be a great platform when you don’t need much power and only a few IO pins.
ISeeAll has been working on a Halloween Moving Skull Project which used an Arduino that is monitoring 5 photo cells so that it can watch shadows of people walking by so that it can look at them. move to predetermined positions based on which sensor is shaded. I think a room with even one entrance can be made very spooky with something similar, just have an IR beam on
 The headlights of some BMWs have some cool looking daytime running lights, they have acrylic light pipes that produce a ring of light. A cool looking upgrade is adding LED rings which are brighter and really make the lights look cool! Since the headlight units are sealed this mod isn’t that easy, but the results are worth it. “Conclusion: I highly recommend anyone else considering this just let
If you have ever wondered how one of those RGB LED light bulbs work have a look at the article that chr has put together. By monitoring the IR LED of the remote he was able to snif the IR remote codes for the functions. Once he knew the IR codes he used an Arduino to run through all of the byte sequences but unfortunately there were no easter
Julian Ilett demonstrates his Arduino Solar Charge Controller. He has mounted all of his Arduino modules to a piece of wood to keep everything nice and neat. “High efficiency values (96% – 97%) are achievable when the buck converter is stepping down from 18v to 12v. With a 72-cell panel and the converter stepping 35v down to 12v, the efficiency drops to around 88%.”
Do you have a boat and are looking for the next toy? I think this Flying hovercraft might be high on the list, just imagine not needing to drive your trailer down the dock to unload your craft, just drive it down the ramp. If there is some pesky land and trees in the way from one water way to the next just launch and fly over. If these
If you want to fly an RC plane but don’t think getting used to flying with a standard RC remote this glove control system might be a build that could help you fly. It has some interesting features that help to make flying the plane more intuitive such as simply tilting your hand from side to side to bank the plane instead of moving a joystick. “The Spatial Hand
