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Tabasco Bottle LED Mood Lamp

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...

Displaying Android Phone Video on an RGB LED Matrix

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...

chipKIT Uno32 Review: Arduino Compatible?

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...

Defusable Clock

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...

Visualizing TV Dialog Using Closed Caption Data

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...