I love Tabasco and always though that their cute little miniature bottles could be the basis for a great specialty lamp. I was very happy to find that a 3mm LED fits perfectly in the bottle opening of the miniature bottles. By designing a custom circuit board I was...
Difficulty Level = 7 [What’s this?] I built a remote-controlled robotics platform using a 4WD mobile platform, an Arduino (Seeeduino Mega), an Adafruit motor shield, and two XBee radios for communication. There are also some super-bright white LEDs on the front...
Difficulty Level = 10 [What’s this?] I bought this awesome RGB LED matrix panel from Adafruit and really wanted to see if I could make it display video from an Android phone. It was somewhat difficult, but by using my Android phone, the OpenCV computer vision...
I recently got a chipKIT Uno32 prototyping platform from Newark so I could take it for a spin. Newark is the US distribution arm of Farnell and they carry both the chipKIT Uno32 and the chipKIT Max32. The chipKIT boards are manufactured by Diligent and claim...
The Defusable Clock kit is NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE! This may look like a dangerous device, but it’s really just an ordinary alarm clock — with a twist. I thought it would be fun to build an alarm clock that looks just like the type of bomb that...
Difficulty Level = 8 [What’s this?] One of the coolest things you can do with the nootropic design Video Experimenter shield for Arduino is decode the closed caption data embedded in NTSC (North American) television broadcasts. I figured out how to do this and...
