Recently, I’ve been looking for floodlight replacement for my house because the old one was breaking and didn’t work all that well.
Well, I went to Home Depot and they had a bunch of them but they all cost like over $100 plus you needed to wire them directly to your home’s AC power.
After doing some more research with solar LED lights and other floodlights, I found this great little wireless LED floodlight
Here’s a cool implementation of Android smartphone controlling an RC car via WiFi. I know there’s a bunch of ways to use Arduino with Android but this is an example that there’s no limits to what you can do with an Android device and your brain.
The RC car (battery powered) is completely controlled by Flyport. The module manages Wi-Fi link to an Android Smartphone and it drives the servo motors (PWM signal). On the following video you see the Android phone internal accelerometers drive directly the RC Car.
In the near future, you should be able to control all of your house heating system and even hot water via a web interface. But for those of you who don’t want to wait for that, you can make your own like Nicholas did, a DIY web interface control system for your central heating and hot water made possible by a linux box and some relays.
POV or Persistence of Vision where you use flashing LED lights to display letters in motion, has always been a fun way to learn about LEDs and circuits. You might remember I invented the world’s first Golf club POV, which was capable of showing letters/images while you swing the golf club.
Well, there’s a DIY Doggy Style (literally doggy dog) POV someone has managed to put together with his furry little helper helping him in pitch darkness.
Mounting 5 LEDs on a moving o
Are you looking for a new webcam that can perhaps take full 1080P videos, talk to your friends on Skype in 720P HD, or perhaps just for adding some HD security camera?
Well, I just received the Logitech 1080P HD C910 webcam (for mainly taking videos of myself for my YouTube channel) but it’s a pretty good HD webcam if not the best one you can get right now for the money spent, under $100.
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Ever wondered what your daughter or son is doing upstairs in her/his bedroom? How do you know if they are actually doing homework or browsing online something they shouldn’t be?
Well, here’s a simple spy DIY wifi-sniffin’ photo frame you can make using a free linux program called Driftnet, which sniffs images being surfed via an open network. You could even use just a regular linux box too.
We are gonna be seeing a slew of great Android-controlled Arduino applications, these things are about to explode soon and here’s another great application showing control of a physical labyrinth/maze with a Nexus One Android smartphone:
Inspired by the ball maze at Google I/O 2011, I decided to go and raid my parents’ house for the ball maze I grew up with. When I found it the challenge was set: I had one night to develop the hardware and software to control the maze using my Google Nexus One, using only what I could find in my (sadly very small and limit
For those of you who want to upgrade to iOS5 today, you will need a developer account OR you can follow the directions here:
1. Download the iOS 5 IPSW file from the web (it’s easy and readily available. Just Google it and torrent it down). 2. Update your iPhone using iTunes. To do this, connect your iPhone to your computer, click on the Check for Update button with the Option (Mac) or Shift (PC) key pressed. Select the iOS 5 IPSW file from the place you downloaded it to. 3. Wait until it upgrades. A new activation screen will appear.
Activate iOS 5 1. Triple click the
