In Italy, during this pandemic period, Decrees of the President of the Council of Ministers (DPCM) are very frequent and the restrictions vary from region to region. Each region will have a color assigned under these restrictions and the variations of each decree will make the various colors impossible to remember. Colors of Italy is…
With this project you can customize your Computer station with DIY ambient lights, using a LED strip controlled by any ESP8266 based board. The color of the strip will be controllable from a smartphone and, like a home automation device, automations can be set to change color at certain times of the day or after…
[Lewis] of [DIY Machines] was always on the lookout for that perfect something to hang above the couch. After spending a lot of time fruitlessly searching, he designed and built this awesome shelving unit with recessed lighting that doubles as a huge 7-segment clock. The clock part works as you probably expect — an Elegoo…
The Angstrom Tuneable LED Light Source combines 12 channels into a single LED light and is powered via a 5V 60W supply, giving it plenty of room to power what’s onboard, and even more LEDs could theoretically be added if so desired. Cooling is provided by a pair of heatsinks. “Angstrom is a 12 channel…
If you like electronic music, you must know Daft Punk’s glowing electronic helmets. Now, thanks to this Electronoobs tutorial, you can make a very good and affordable replica for around $20 and 30 hours of print time. This is a very simple project that uses the Adafruid library to control a RGB adressable LED strip that…
Olimex has recently launched eduArdu, an open source hardware Arduino compatible board specifically designed for education with plenty of buttons, LEDs, and sensors, as well as tutorials and samples source code to help young and older aspiring makers get started with Arduino programming. An ATMega32U4 AVR microcontroller provides the computing muscle, just like it does…
The Shy Machine is a motion activated, sound reactive, environmentally adaptive and arduino-powered kinetic light sculpture. When it detects motion via a PIR sensor, the shell-like robot takes a reading of the ambient sound level using an internal microphone. If things are sufficiently quiet, it opens up using a stepper motor and lead screw, revealing…
Light painting: there’s something that never gets old about waving lights around in a long exposure photo. Whilst most light paintings are single shots, some artists painstakingly create frame-by-frame animations. This is pretty hard to do when moving a light around by hand: it’s mostly guesswork, as it’s difficult to see the results of your…
EveLab 1.0 is an advanced breakout board designed for the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO. It was initially born as a circuit trainer for the University of Guelph students to wire projects with the Pi, so it looks perfect for an educational environment or for learning new skills. The developer has now started selling the hardware, and…
Youtuber Bob Clagett is a huge fan of 80’s toys and movies. Inspired by Transformers he decided to realize his dream: build his own life-sized Optimus Prime ion blaster. Now, after hours of 3D printing and finishing, he finally has something worthy of that universe. Inside, sound and lighting effects are controlled by an Arduino, which…
This small project is composed of a small pin hosting all the necessary components, namely, a battery, a switch, and two RGB LEDs. Once the switch is closed, LEDs turn on cyclically starting with red, and then lilac, violet, blue, green, yellow and restarting with red light again. The question is that,…
“In this project I will show you how I combined a couple steel pieces with an Arduino, an APA102 LED Strip and a Hall effect sensor in order to create a POV (persistence of vision) RGB LED Globe. WIth it you can create all kinds of spherical pictures or even letters which is a definite…
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