January 4, 2007
DIY - Make your own self-powered mini-flashlight
Here’s a cool self-recharging mini-flashlight you can make yourself if you are still on vacation. Come to think of it, we are going to have to build self-powered POVs soon… Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, flashlight, Hack, Ha ... More
January 2, 2007
DIY - LED lighting Guide
Here’s a cool LED HOWTO guide including how to power LEDs using DC or AC. LED lights are extremely efficient compared to standard incandescent lighting. No other lighting source outputs as many lumens per watt. They are particularly efficient at producing a single color of light. Other light sources have to produce the entire spectrum and ... More
December 30, 2006
DIY - Simple LED HOWTO
Here’s a simple LED HOWTO using LEDs and some batteries for those of you interested in LEDs and want a class-101 on it. via Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, HOWTO, LED, led-howto, make, makezine, ... More
December 28, 2006
DIY HACK - “Propeller Clock” Mechanically Scanned LED Clock
Cool propeller clock you can make! How this clock works: A motor spins the “propeller”, and a small microprocessor keeps track of time and changes the pattern on seven LEDs with exact timing to simulate a 7 by 30 array of LEDs. It is an illusion, but it works nicely. If you want to build this clock, you will need a few things, includi ... More
December 8, 2006
Hackaday - Binary Clock HACK
cool hack…!@! [Walter] sent in his version of a PIC binary clock. It’s a nice alternative If you don’t want one that runs off TTL logic, This one runs on a PIC 16F628 (Microchip is great for samples) and displays hours in 5 bits and minutes in 6. His blog also features a decent looking programmer, and he shows off his version of ... More
November 7, 2006
Supplier - High Intensity LEDs
sunled In search of high intesity LEDs for my new POV project, I have come up on this site, which has a good source of high intesity LEDs randing from color-changing to even rainbow LEDs. Here’s some other cool high intensity sites: high intensity LEDs from Jameco high intesity bar lights extremeled has bunch of cool LED fiber rods! bar_l ... More
November 5, 2006
DIY HACK - Hacking the Infoglobe
Huh, here’s a good way of hacking your infoglobe to do more such as interfacing to it and making new messages. I guess you can get it on ebay for pretty cheap. Maybe he can figure out how to hack this cool message LED too. via make Blog, brookstone, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, ebay, Entertainment, Enterta ... More
November 3, 2006
Coin Battery powers one LED!
Here’s a cool 1.5V battery made from coins that powers an LED! Great science experiment for kids and techy people like us. via make 1.5V, battery, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, LED, magic, magic, Zedomax ... More
October 29, 2006
LED changing Mouse
Cool mouse that changes colors. Why not spruce up your desktop with the Optical USB MultiColor Mouse MI-2330 from Trust? This mouse comes with a top layer made from rubber, with an LED lining which is capable of switching between any 7 colors for a constantly different look. The MI-2330 makes for an affordable gift as it costs a mere $15, and alt ... More
October 28, 2006
LED T-shirt
View This Video on You Tube Cool LED T-shirt! Apparently these were recently featured on Ellen, but since we don’t frequent that show, this is the first video we’ve seen on the T-Qualizer. Running off a pair of AA batteries, the T-Qualizer is perfect for dark places, so people can better find you to kick your ass for wearing a T-Quali ... More
October 25, 2006
Zedomax DIY 116- Halloween HOWTO make a talking pumpkin basket!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode My girlfriend asked me she wanted a cool halloween basket for her house on halloween, so I made her a halloween backet with some parts that I had lying around. I figured I could use the voice module that I bought at Radio Shack for like 10 bucks a couple month ... More
October 22, 2006
DIY Circuit - Color Sensing circuit with minimal components
Here’s a cool circuit for color sensing using minimal circuit components… Colour sensor is an interesting project for hobbyists. The cir- cuit can sense eight colours, i.e. blue, green and red (primary colours); magenta, yellow and cyan (secondary colours); and black and white. When a primary coloured light ray falls on the system, ... More
October 8, 2006
DIY - Cool LEDs
Cool Blue LEDs that you can make. I decided to make my own dot matrix display because they look cool, and none can be found in blue, which is the best colour, so I decided, may as well make it myself. via make Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, LED, make, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, Zedomax ... More
October 4, 2006
Simmons LED Project - LED for buildings…
Kinda cool project using giagantic LEDs for a building! A giant 2-story-high LED display was constructed using amazingly powerful Luxeon LEDs in a 6×6 grid of windows at the architecturally renowned Simmons Hall undergraduate dormitory at MIT. It’s a fairly simple circuit design that anyone can do with a decent amount of patience to wi ... More
September 12, 2006
Color changing LEDs for your next floor in your living room
Yes finally got an idea for my next party, floor controlled LEDs! “Our flagship product, the Disco Dance Floor Controller Board is capable of controlling up to 192 LEDs (with 4-bit intensity control) and 64 binary switches via a USB interface. Using the included source code, a refresh rate of 17 frames per second is easily achieved. With som ... More
September 11, 2006
Color changing LED from buring man
My artist friend from college used to tell me about burning man, it’s a event held in the middle of the desert basically w/ bunch of regular people, crazy people, and people w/ lots of creative ideas… Anyways, Make has some interesting color changing LEDs which are kinda cool… Yes, one day i gotta go here w/ my party lights… ... More
September 10, 2006
LED Wallpaper: Rave at Grandma’s
Here’s a nice LED wallpaper your new house, it seems like people are not making full advantage of all the available technology out there. I wish they had this at clubs… “This month he unveiled LED wallpaper at Spazio Krizia 2006 in Milan. Remember how in the ’80’s everybody was sticking digital clocks in old inventi ... More
September 7, 2006
LED show T-shirt from Philips
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Yes, check out this LED show T-shirt from Philips. Consumer, Consumer, LED, led-show, philips, phillip, show ... More
