Category Archives: Holiday

Holiday tunes from Attiny13 and SPI Flash

In clearing up the year-end mail, we noted this from Vinod sharing one of his recent hobby projects. “This is a holiday hardware hack creating WAV music player using a 512KB SPI Flash he cobbled from a damaged digital camera and the Attiny13 MCU. I implemented UART for song updating…. It is a hack with […]

Numato Mega New Year give away 2015 – Grab your surprise gift

Numato is hosting a ‘Mega New Year give away 2015‘.  Two random lucky winners will receive Waxwing Spartan 6 FPGA Development Board. Another five lucky winners will receive Mimas V2 Spartan 6 FPGA Development Board. And ten lucky winners will receive PIC18 Microcontroller Development Board.   Visit the contest info page for details. Again that time […]

Seeed Studio Pre-Christmas Sale — Save up to 50% OFF

Seeed’s Pre-Christmas promotion begins! The discount season will last from 10th to 24th Nov., amazing discount (up to 50%) is waiting for you. Get discount Pre-Christmas open hardware, discount Groves and Xadow wearable modules, discount Arduino Compatible Board and Shields ,discount Raspberry Pi and accessories, discount Flexible LED Trips and Rainbow Cube ,get what you […]

Hack your Valentine with HeartThrob

A geek love by Boris Landoni: Hack your Valentine with HeartThrob Today we present the perfect Valentine gadget: just shake it and it will turn on and crate incredible light animations. That will be cool for sure! We know that, as it’s Valentine’s Day, looking at the device described in this post you’ll be inclined to […]

Numato Mega New Year give away 2014 – Grab your surprise gift

Tom over at Numato writes,  “This year we are calling all electronics enthusiasts to join this event and grab their free gift. Gifts ranging from SMD adapters to FPGA boards. More details at www.numato.cc” This is the happiest time of the year for sure. Christmas is around the corner, New Year 2014 is fast approaching. And one […]

Digitstump’s Black Friday sale

Ihsan informs us of Digitstump’s Black Friday sale: We are pleased to announce that Digistump.com will be offering some amazing deals for Black Friday thru Cyber Monday – while we can’t compete with the big stores, because we don’t have 2-3x mark-up like they do, we hope these deals will help you buy engaging, educational, electronic gifts […]

Propeller Halloween pumpkin project

This project uses a Parallax Propeller Project board with microSD card attached, PIR sensor, LM386 Audio Amp, IRL520 FET and associated discrete components to make an animated Halloween prop. The PIR inside the pumpkin senses motion and when triggered it plays a WAV file from a microSD Card while flashing an internal light, causing an […]

Open source Halloween LED projects

Eric Thompson of Lowvoltagelabs. sends in these two Open Source Hardware projects for Halloween: I thought October might be a good time to share a couple Halloween related circuit boards that I have designed. Both of them were designed using KiCAD and I have released them as open source hardware so people can make their […]

Another geek love: Valentine’s Day flowers with LEDs

Want to make your loved ones feel extra special with your handmade Valentine’s Day flowers? Nowait shows you how to make inexpensive electronic flowers: Long story short, I get alot of stick for not buying flowers (I think they are a waste of money) so I decided that I was going to make some that would […]