IKEA’s Figgjo, is designed to be a mirror, but with a little ‘electronic can becomes fascinating light equipped wall clock. It’s a round mirror, from which twelve evenly spaced rays and this makes it perfect for a clock base. The twelve rays with small round mirrors will be our hours, while the circumference of…
In this post we present the design of a scale that connects to the Internet and automatically sends weight info on a Google Document. The project is composed of Arduino Uno board Wi-Fi shield additional shield that we used to manage data collection and I/O with a clear and comfortable and clear LCD display Velleman scale…
There is a new project for halloween. This is a small modification to a lamp with tunnel effect commercialized by Velleman. There are different types and colors of this lamps, we chose this one because is very simple to find. The model that we modified uses 18 LEDs (red blue and green) and two fake…
[iframe_loader src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/jtB6e36J7w4?hl=it&fs=1″ height=”349″ width=”425″ ] We create a lamp controlled by SMS using a GSM shield, a RGB shield and a Arduino UNO. Due to the simplicity of these boards, simply plug one over the other and connect a strip led to have a lighting effect. Then sending normal text messages from any…
A Thanks to Chris Anderson, Massimo Banzi, Dale Dougherty and the MAKERS of the new Industrial Revolution. On March 9 in the Acquario Romano we heard testimonies of people, reality and Italian companies that have never stopped believing in innovation. We like the stories of those who invest in their future without fear and looking to new technologies. Just as we love the old craftsmen who know how to reinvent traditions. We know that it takes courage to get involved. World Wide Rome has shown us that there are opportunities to do…
In january I had the opportunity to visit the CES 2012. I found a lot of very interesting electronics products, but a lot of them are too consumer. I think that the 40% was dedicated to cellular cover, headphone and other commercial devices. A other 40% regarding smartphone, LED TV, computer and similar. I went…
Very few components, plexiglass and a CNC are the ingredients to make wonderful brilliant figures to decorate the Christmas tree or our house this Christmas and New Year. Let’s see how to do it. With the LED is possible to do things that with the traditional sources of artificial light was not allowed, like signs…
I love IKEA and her low cost products. Last week I found this STRÅLA lamp. The cost is $4.99, so I bought it. Lighting the lamp I saw that it ‘s very pretty but also … too soft… So I thought to modify the LED and add a RGB led. With simple modify you can obtain a dinamic…
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