LED Projects

Ultraviolet nightlight ingredients and setup (1)

Ultraviolet nightlight, ingredients and setup using Arduino

This simple instructable will show you how to make a nightlight out of a translucent container, a bottle of tonic water, an Arduino, and ultraviolet LEDs. If you’ve ever played with a black light, you’ve noticed that some substances glow brightly under these lights. In this case, we’ll be using tonic water because it contains …

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reprogramable (1)

Tiny Wearable LED kit – 12 PWM LEDs from a reprogramable ATtiny85 using Arduino

This instructable covers the assembly and use of a Tiny Wearable LED kit.  The kit is useable immediately but is desigend to be hackable and can be reprogrammed to your liking using an ISP programmer or Arduino board and the Arduino IDE. There are not too many tiny implementations of microcontrollers.  The Arduino lillypad is …

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Arduino Controlled RGB LED Dot Matrix Board (1)

Arduino Controlled RGB LED Dot Matrix Board

This project is a relatively straightforward and simple DIY music board. The Dot Matrix Board will allow any aged person to create their own music and beats. All you need to have is an understanding of Arduino and circuitry. Step 1: Gather Parts Needed [box color=”#985D00″ bg=”#FFF8CB” font=”verdana” fontsize=”14 ” radius=”20 ” border=”#985D12″ float=”right” head=”Major …

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LED digital message board (1)

PS/2/You: Go-anywhere, LED digital message board using Arduino microcontroller

Combine three inexpensive LED matrix display panels, an Ardweeny microcontroller and a standard PS/2 computer keyboard into your own go-anywhere, instantly updatable 768-pixel digital message board. The code can hold up to six lines of text with a maximum of 100 characters each. Pressing a key on the keyboard gets you to input mode. Use …

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Digispark RGB LED Fader (1)

Digispark RGB LED Fader Using Arduino

Forward: This instructable was originally posted at http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-LED-Fader-using-Digispark/ My students and I developed it into this exemplar, for which they received a very good mark. Viewing the following video may leave you with a sense of too much too fast. Please continue to read this Instructable which documents my students’ Tanner and Amanda’s culminating math project. …

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Geiger counter triggered LED decorations (1)

Geiger counter triggered LED decorations using arduino

Bored of blinky lights that blink in response to time? Make them blink with space instead! This instructable shows a quick method for connecting LED tree decorations to a Geiger counter via arduino, so that the lights blink between different strings each time radiation is detected. It’s nicer to think of this as “cosmic rays” than some of …

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LED Array (1)

Making 1×10 LED Array with Random Patterns using Arduino

This will teach you how to make a very simple 1×10 array of LEDs on a breadboard controlled by an Arduino Uno to make the LEDs blink and flash in 10 different patterns. Link to notebook for project:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YP4p11SbDNOnM7mDn-sRjJLnxGPj6o0DkrFZnznVMvk/edit Link to YouTube video of LEDs in action:  http://youtu.be/waaNSYbWn2Y Step 1: Insert LEDs into Breadboard Insert …

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