Difficulty Level = 6 [What’s this?] This is a mood lamp I build using 16 LEDs of different colors and small glass vials. The square bottoms of the vials look a lot like glass block, and the glass diffuses and scatters the light in beautiful ways. The software...
Difficulty Level = 8 [What’s this?] UPDATE: Check out the new robotics platform project! I built a wireless robotics platform from a cheap R/C car, an Arduino with XBee shield, small microswitch sensors, and a Processing program running on a remote computer to...
I’m happy to finally announce my new product, the EZ-Expander shield. After several months of hard work of sourcing parts, designing the PCB, and setting up a store, my first product is now available for purchase in the nootropic design store! For all the...
Difficulty Level = 4 [What’s this?] This is an amusing project inspired by flashing blue and red lights on police cars, ambulances, etc. This is a perf board Arduino with 5 blue and 5 red LEDs, and the Arduino code lights them up in a pattern similar to police...
Difficulty Level = 6 [What’s this?] After tearing down an old CD player, I was inspired by the CD laser scanning assembly to build a door lock for my subterranean lab. The assembly has two motors: one for turning the CD (I’m not using this one) and one for...
Difficulty Level = 5 [What’s this?] UPDATE: I have re-done this project using simple 434MHz RF transmitter/receiver devices. Check out the new project!. UPDATE: Also see this project for an easy way to display a temperature reading: Digit Shield Temperature...
