This is a DIY variable resistor I created as an interface for live performance– like a stomp box. I designed it as a project my audio students could build with materials we already have in the classroom. The result is a variable resistor that can be triggered with just a little pressure from hands or feet. …
I was always impressed by the Daft Punk Coffee Table. Being able to light up a bunch of LEDs and flash them in patterns has so many applications. It was one of the reasons why I bought an Arduino seeing how it could control a matrix of LED lights.This is my attempt at building the Daft …
Daft Punk LED Matrix Breakout Board using Arduino Read More »
What if making an Arduino, or wiring up an Arduino was as easy as printing one out? In this tutorial we printed our own Arduino Pro Mini board using a pen plotter and the Electroninks Circuit Scribe (a rollerball pen with highly conductive ink). Within 15 minutes we printed the board, placed components down with …
Paperduino 2.0 with Circuit Scribe – Paper Arduino Read More »
Throwies are great. They have a minimal parts count – 2 or 3 depending on whether you use a magnet – and produce a great effect. They are very cheap and easy but not highly efficient: 1) They are on all the time, so on average they waste half of their energy shining during the day. …
Throwduino Basic – Light-Sensing Flashing Throwie using Arduino Read More »
Last March, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino registered a new limited company in London, and booked a booth at CES, the consumer electronics trade show, taking place 10 months later. She had no team, and only a dated prototype product that she had designed back in 2005. “I thought what’s the biggest kick in the ass that I …
I have an Arduino Uno connected to two IR transmitters and respective receivers. Basically, when one of the receivers detects a beam break, I have a strand of LEDs display a pattern. This all works in principle, but the problem is that when the IR transmitters and receivers are connected to the Arduino, the LEDs …
Arduino IR Transmitter & Receiver w/ LEDs Flickering Issue Read More »
In this project, we will go over how to build an arduino LED flasher circuit. We will use a standard arduino board, doesn’t matter which, and connect it so that it flashes an LED a certain amounts of times on and off repeatedly to create an LED flasher circuit. An arduino is a self-contained microcontroller. …
In this article we are going to take a detailed look at how to build the driving circuit for the 8x8x8 LED cube. In other words we are going to design and analyze the circuit which translates the signals coming from the Arduino to appropriate currents passing through each of the LEDs, so that the desired animations …
Building an 8x8x8 LED Cube – The Driving Circuit using Arduino Read More »
So, I have always wanted a nice lamp by the side of my bed, Something simple with out any buttons. Of course this would mean it had to be wireless. I also wanted to use it from my bed but not getting out of my bed to turn it off. So it had to be remote controlled, …
Introduction You’ve started modifying sketches, and played a bit with the onboard LED (or if you have an NG, an LED you added). The next step is to start adding onto the hardware component of the Arduino. We will do this by adding a solderless breadboard to our setup, connecting up new parts with wire. Say hello …
