Okay, last time I made a computer controlled party light in 90 seconds but I ran into some problems. The party light was an experiment and I needed something that would be more realistic for this labor day weekend.
Something that has isolation to protect against electrical su ...
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Today, I was thinking about how I can turn a household bulb into a party light by connecting an embedded computer for my next party in my garage.
We will use a SSR (solid state relay) relays to enable common AC household light…
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Here’s how to make a touch screen sprinkler system for your lawn and garden w/ some parts from Home Depot and touch screen controller from Comfile.
Yes I did goto Home Depot, but they did not have a touch screen sprinkler system yet…
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Today I was trying to make the G-meter and was thinking that I needed a stopwatch. Well since I don’t carry watches and I didn’t want to buy a stopwatch, I figured I could just make one with some of the extra study board and seven segment displays I have laying arou ...
Here’s a DIY on how to make a G-meter for you car and measure how many Gs your car can handle.
We will use an accelerometer chip from Dimension Engineering and CUBLOC CB220 module from Comfile to cut down our hardware development to near a minute.
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Okay today I was thinking and figured, why don’t I just put a touch-screen slotmachine in my car?
I am stuck in traffic 2 hours a day.
So that’s 2 x 5 days x 12 months = 120 hours a year.
“I can gamble while I am waiting at the stop light,” I figured.
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Here’s a DIY on how to make an alarm system in 3 minutes. We will use a loud buzzer and some magnetic switchs from Radio Shack to create a simple yet effective alarm system. We will throw in a LCD, keypad so we can alarm the alarm system using a 4-digit code and be able to ...
Do u want to add a Stepper Motor for your app?
Today we will use a R208 Microstep Driver from RMS Technologies and a NEMA-17 Stepper Motor from AutomationDirect.com.
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Do u need a Bar-code scanner for your app?
Today we will try to use a Metrologic Voyager Bar-code scanner to scan a coke bottle, Jagermeister bottle, CT1721 Start Kit Bard code label, and yes, UPS tracking number.
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Do u need a digital compass for your app? Here we go, let’s put interface a digital compass w/ CUBLOC CB280.
We will use a CUBLOC CB280 module and CMPS03 Digital Compass module from Devantech to create a simple 0 to 360 degree compass.
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