Baby Busy Board 2.0 - Icons, PROGMEM and One LED panel
Last year we celebrated my daughter's first birthday, and as a present I've built her a busy-board and described all the build up on this post. »
Real VR Shooter and the Geekcon Re-use
Last week I once again participated in the great Geekcon event. If you haven't heard of it, Geekcon is an one weekend event where people come »
Designing and fabricating a giant 7-segment display with Fritzing and JLCPCB.com
This is the hardware part of my odyssey to design and build a large 4-digit, 7-segment display, running on an Arduino Nano. It's a great case-study »
Measuring Speed of Rotation with an Arduino, a LED, and an LDR (Light Dependent Resistor)
A couple of days ago I watched a YouTube video where a guy pointed a device at a spinning disk. The disk's rotation speed was displayed »
Automated Light for Better Sleeping Habits, Or: My Baby is a Great Excuse for Playing With My Gadgets
It has been quite a long time since I have written a post on this blog. The main reason is the free time I have, or »
Creating a fantastic portable sound & light show on Raspberry Pi Zero
Last summer a relative showed me his Tesla Model X do its impressive Sound & Light show. If you've never seen it, click here. I decided »
Kitchen Roll & Silicon Chips - Easy-to-build 8-Digit LED Clock
My addiction to clocks started a few years back when I got it into my head that I wanted to build a mechanical timepiece. I spent »
Light Your Menorah (Hanukiyya) or Christmas Tree Remotely from your Phone
A word of warning Before I begin, a word to this blog's regular readers. This post will likely be read by people with little background in »
Pinning down an unlabelled 8 x 8 LED Matrix
A couple of months ago, during a visit to foreign shores, I picked up an 8x8 LED matrix. What caught my eye was that it was »
Failed - Hacking RGB IR Lamp
Not all of my projects succeed. Lately I've been working on several different projects which I hope will be documented soon, but last night I've tried »