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Tweet your shoes to change colour

“”Tweet my boots to make them change colour”. This was a brilliant way to get out of making small talk when networking at conferences. I hacked my LED boots so anyone anywhere could change the colour by tweeting them. I …

Ultra-secure Programmable Lockbox

“Our final project for ECE 4760: Digital Systems Design Using Microcontrollers is an ultra-secure programmable lockbox. The box can be unlocked using a keypad, three tunable knobs, a ‘knocking’ pattern (through a piezo electric sensor), and a fingerprint sensor. The …

USB controlled SPÖKA night light

“This is an IKEA SPÖKA light. It is a small night light resembling a little ghost. Originally powered by an internal rechargable battery, the light is controlled by a single button. When pressing that button it starts cycling through various …

A Christmas tree, PCB ornament

“It is soon Christmas and I am facing the very same, yearly recurring problem: What gifts to buy! I generally prefer gifts to have a personal touch and was always fascinated by some personalized keychains I would receive from my …

Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes

“I wrote a program to clean up scans of handwritten notes while simultaneously reducing file size. Some of my classes don’t have an assigned textbook. For these, I like to appoint weekly ‘student scribes’ to share their lecture notes …

IR controlled Christmas Tree

“It all started with this Instructables : Intructables Christmas Tree . So I decided to make it in the FabLab in my town (Strasbourg, France) (http://www.av-lab.net/). The frame is cool, but I wanted more. So I decided to add …

WordClock with Two 8x8 Character Faces

“A word clock with two interchangeable 8x8 face designs, an RGB LED matrix, laser cut bamboo dovetailed enclosure and mirror acrylic faces. “

5 DOF Robotic Arm Kit With Code

“In this tutorial, we will create a robotic arm that will be controlled by a keyboard. This can be used to demonstrate a cool project to friends or something that can be used as part of a bigger project. The …

A amazing kitchen Hack │ Upgrading a vegetable chopper manual to automatic

“This time I bring something which you all go through in day to day life. yes a manual vegetable chopper. your or you mom those who use chopper got very frustrated by operating it manually so what i did, joint …

A Conscious Coupling of Magnetic and Electric Materials

“Scientists have successfully paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room temperatures, an achievement that could open doors to ultra low-power microprocessors, storage devices and next-generation electronics. The …