Creating Light Animations and Mini LED Displays with Raspberry Pi Pico
This article shows how to drive a large WS2812B LED ring with a Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico 2, creating festive light effects and even using the ring as a low-resolution display.
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Arduino-Based Retro Handheld Console
TeleBall is a DIY Arduino based retro handheld game console that lets you play BreakOut in single-player mode using one device and Tennis for Two in multi-player mode using two devices communicating via radio. TeleBall is pretty retro and very minimalistic: it features an 8×8 pixel LED matrix display, a paddle as game controller and…
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DIY a Raspberry Pi Zero Powered Chess Challenger
This Raspberry Pi Zero powered retro themed Chess Challenger, is an open source hardware design capable of running an up to date open source chess engine, Stockfish. The original game was devised by Fidelity Electronics, and took the form of a chess set with what appeared to be a calculator of some sort built into…
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DIY Your Star Wars Mouse Droid With Hidden Display
Differently from the small black droids that you have seen in the Star Wars saga, the mouse droid by Potent Printables acts as a sort of physical messaging app. It’s able to travel to the correct location, then pop open to unveil a scrolling LED sign. An Arduino Uno along with an Adafruit Motor Shield are used for control,…
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Arduino Ultrasonic Fluid Level Meter
If you need to monitor the fluid level in a large diameter well, a tank, or an open container, for only €70 you can build your own Ultrasonic fluid level monitoring system. One day, my brother and I talked about how our grandfather used to measure the water level manually in order to keep track…
