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Proximity Based Lighting

“Have lights react when something gets close. Useful or spooky? You decide. I stumble out to my cafe area (originally designed to be a dining area, I’m sure) first thing each morning to make coffee. As I step up …

An Emergency-Stop Circuit for a Mobile Robot

“So you’ve built a robot. Let’s say that it’s your second one. Typically, we buy a complete one as a kit, for instance, maybe a Smart Video Car from Sunfounder. We had fun building it, rolling it …

IOT123 - I2C Heartbeat Brick

“The IOT123 BRICKS are DIY modular units that can be mashed up with other IOT123 BRICKS, to add functionality to a node or wearable. They are based on the inch square, double-sided protoboards with interconnected through holes. A number of …

Soldering Iron Controller for Hakko T12 Tips on Arduino

“How to build your own soldering iron controller for amazing Hakko T12 tips. Story First, there was an idea When I was surfing the Internet for interesting projects, the handmade soldering station project touched me very much. The project, at …

Wallace the Autonomous Talking Robot Valet

“The lofty goal (for me, anyway) was to make a mobile autonomous robot that could sense its surroundings, learn the layout of the home, respond to verbal instructions, and recognize/identify images. And more as time goes on. Also included …

Scanlime-in-Progress Indicator (aka YouTube Live Indicator)

“Never miss your favourite YouTube channel going live again with this Particle Photon-based indicator. I’m a big fan of the scanlime-in-progress live streams Micah Elizabeth Scott (Scanlime) does under the watchful eye of Tuco the cat. Micah’s streams …

32 Shades of Grey

“Portable NTSC test pattern generator This project implements a low cost portable NTSC video pattern generator for testing monochrome video systems regarding gain and resolution. The circuit provides a video output with voltage and impedance according with the RS-170 …

IOT123 - I2C 2Ch Relay Brick

“The IOT123 BRICKS are DIY modular units that can be mashed up with other IOT123 BRICKS, to add functionality to a node or wearable. They are based on the inch square, double-sided protoboards with interconnected through holes. A number of …

IOT123 - I2C Ky019 Brick

“The IOT123 BRICKS are DIY modular units that can be mashed up with other IOT123 BRICKS, to add functionality to a node or wearable. They are based on the inch square, double-sided protoboards with interconnected through holes. A number of …

ParticleSwitch

“Battery life has become a key competing feature between mobiles, laptops, wearable devices, etc. Over charging a battery leads to an effect called the “battery-effect”, where due to charging a devices battery past it’s power limit leads to decrease …