You know when it comes to New Years and Independence Day, you always get to see some really exotic, beautiful fireworks. Well, all those fireworks are nowdays controlled by an ignition control system but here’s how to make one for yourself.
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Here’s a cool DIY showing you how to make a force sensitive resistor for about $6-$20.
It’s a great way to build something that needs to sense “force” of something such as your hand strength, leg strength, etc…etc… In other words, you could ...
Here’s an interesting solar tree that collects energy during the day and emits pulses of lights at night.
Collects and stores solar energy during the day, emits controlled pulses of light at night. Pulse frequency: 0.2Hz
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Here’s an interesting AVR tri-color LED controller.
The new project based in AVR microcontrollers Its an “Habitat Mirror Hack” with RGB Leds (superflux). Its the Peggy Muppe ...
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This is a great project for your school final project.
Human Interfacing Device is key area in modern electronics era. Gesture recognition can be well introduced in modern day computers to pl ...
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One of our long-time readers and a winner of a free Green Laser, Brian Gaut from Schwippy, has made a new website explaining how to make the Emergency Party Button and transform your livingroo ...
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Remember I did a G-Force Meter couple years ago? Here’s another cool DIY G-Force meter. The only difference it that it uses 7-segment display and a PIC18F series microcontroller.
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Wow, this has to be one of the cooler DIY robots I’ve seen in a long time. Basically, it plays drums. Not real drums, but it plays your household stuff like vases as drums. Beautifully done, we give it an A+ for the creators. (Btw, we are not selling the blog for $1000 ...
Check out the Atmel AVR temperature controller hack, although I made a better one last year that can be controlled via ethernet, the case looks awesome!
Wine doesn’t like subzero temperatures, and during wintertime, my “winecellar” got pretty cold.
There was ...
Check out the Part 3 of “HOWTO make sounds with Ardunio” and learn to play melody.
Bit-Banging Sound
To bit-bang sound we toggle an output pin at the desired frequency. To play a musical note, we need to use specific frequencies and play the sound for a specific amou ...
