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LED DIY - How to Make a Cool LED Dot-Matrix Display!

by max on May 27th, 2009
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Here’s a really cool DIY that shows you how to make a cool LED dot-matrix display. I’ve seen plenty of these in the past but they seemed to always be in style. This is a simple HOW-TO make your own personalised LED Dot-Matrix display. I will be adding the complete program with an explaination to light the LEDs with. It’s also rather hackable, you can change it to suit ...

The Pharox LED Bulbs!

by max on April 8th, 2009
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Yey, we finally have LED bulbs from Pharox that greatly increases the efficiency of light bulbs while lasting 50 times longer. I have to say these LEDs are very handy for projects too while they don’t really product enough heat to hurt you even when you touch them. Cool stuff. The Pharox LED bulb produces a warm glow equivalent to that of a 40Watt incandescent bulb, but uses o ...

Garden DIY - How to Make LED Grow Lights for your Plants!

by max on February 22nd, 2009
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Hopefully, you won’t be using this LED grow light to grow your illegal plants (or maybe legal depending on where you are and what licenses you have), but here’s a great way to keep your plants healthy full of artificial LED light by making LED grow lights! Specialized grow lights that closely mimic the sun’s rays are a better solution, but you can get the same effect with ...

DIY LED Heart Circuit Kit!

by max on February 18th, 2009
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If you have been looking for an easy kit to make an electronic heart, you can refer to my heart DIY or you can get one of these really cool DIY LED Heart Circuit kits. The LED Flashing Sweetheart Kit contains a circuit board, 28 LEDs and various diodes and resistors you solder together (with your own two hands) to create a lovely romantic knick knack. via sleeprevolution ...

DIY Arduino Rotating LED Persistance Of Vision(POV) Display!

by max on November 6th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a really cool DIY that involves an Arduino microcontroller module, LEDs, and a motor to spin the freak out of the POV display. I really enjoy this except I can’t understand the language on the ...

Home Improvement DIY - How to Make LED Chandelier for lighting up ...

by max on November 4th, 2008

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In case you haven’t noticed, eco-friendly and green people have been trying to replace traditional energy-robbing halogen bulbs with bunch of low-energy, low-cost LEDs. Which is a great thing for safety, energy, and also creative DIYs such as this one that shows you how to make LED chandelier for low-energy, high-style kitchen. I wanted to experiment with a lot of LED;s on AC ma ...

Halloween DIY - How to Make an LED Pumpkin with Arduino!

by max on October 28th, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Yey, here’s another cool LED Pumpkin you can make, sorta different from the one I made couple years ago but this one, you can use Arduino to make it. The Arduino is programmed to pulse the eye LEDs until the victim, I mean trick-or-treater, presses the big red button. At that point the bright w ...

Pyro DIY - Fireworks Ignition Control System using Parallax SX48!

by max on September 27th, 2008
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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. At the heart of my firework ignition system is an SX48 running at 50 MHz. I was able to make full use of the SX’s 36 IO pins. Thirty lines ...

Philips shows off their Ambient Lighting and Ambilight TV product ...

by max on September 22nd, 2008
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For one, I know Philips was working on color-changing LEDs and lightbulbs that are easy to install while providing high power. On top of that, they introduced Ambilight TVs where the background lights would match with what you see on TV. Lastly but not least, I did hear of CitizenM hotels in Amsterdam, supposed to be all design and damn great. It seems that Philips is partnering up wit ...

DIY Nintendo Toaster works Perfectly!

by max on September 11th, 2008
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Fully Functional NES inside toaster Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool DIY Nintendo Toaster that encloses the whole Nintendo inside itself. What I like most about this project is the toaster pop-out function works for the NES cartridges while the toaster LED turns on if the game is on. I had an awful lot of people ...