Happy New Year! Thank you for reading the blog and being part of our community in 2012! We’re looking forward to more open hardware projects, more how-tos, more videos, more free PCBs, and more hacking in 2013.
Category Archives: Holiday
Numato Lab’s New Year’s giveaway
Numatu Lab is starting a New Year’s giveaway. Commenting on their Facebook post guaranties you a random gift from their store. Three randomly chosen winners will get a Elbert Spartan 3A FPGA Development Board. Sharing some of our joy with our readers, we are doing a new year mega give away. We are inviting everyone […]
Holiday greetings; Media: assorted molds and fungus
Holiday greetings grown in a petri dish. Trees and snowman are also very nice. Via Making Electronics Thingies in Amsterdam mailing list.
Support is available on Christmas
I2C giving you the Christmas blues? Need help upgrading your new Bus Pirate or Logic Sniffer? Support is available on Christmas, just give us a shout in the forum. Happy holidays from everyone at Dangerous Prototypes!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all. May you find many PCBs and other electronics wizardry under your tree or pole. Remember, support is available on Christmas. Just give us a shout in the forum.
Twelve Pi’s of Christmas R-Pi charity auction
The Raspberry Pi crew is in the midst of a charity auction event dubbed the Twelve Pi’s of Christmas. The R-Pi crew explains: Last year, we auctioned the very first Raspberry Pi Model Bs to come off the line to raise money for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We’re doing the same this year, but instead […]
Xmas tree with sound-controlled LED animations
Sound controlled LED light show for your Xmas tree. An STM32 microcontroller takes instructions from a PC via Bluetooth and animates the LEDs. This is my Christmas tree, it has over 400 lights (exactly 404) that are all individually controlled by an STM32 microcontroller. The computer plays the music and processes the sync track for […]
Jingle bells playing Christmas tree
Here’s a fun project in the Christmas spirit. It’s a “Jingle bells” playing card, with the specific notes being signaled via LEDs as they are being played. We have 9 control lines for the LEDs and 1 line for the speaker signal. We want the device to start playing if a push button is pressed […]
Christmas Tree O’Digital Logic
Chris from PyroElectro writes about his holiday project. “It’s an all-digital-hardware LED Christmas tree we’re calling the Christmas Tree O’Digital Logic. The tree itself is composed of 64 LEDs built into a spiral sitting on a piece of protoboard. Underneath, the controller uses shift registers and a 555 timer to create two modes of display: […]
Pololu Black Friday sale
Ryan from Pololu informs us about their biggest Black Friday sale: Pololu Robotics and Electronics is having its biggest Black Friday sale yet, starting this Thursday. You can get up to $30 off your entire order in addition to saving up to 60% on dozens of selected products, including the Pololu 3pi Robot, our new Zumo […]
Happy Thanksgiving from Seeed Studio
Happy Thanksgiving from Seeed Studio! Thanksgiving is just around the corner. We would LOVE to thank our families and friends for always standing by our sides. And we would LOVE to take this opportunity to give our special thanks to our dear customers, distributors, cooperated designers, to show our gratitude to the Open Hardware Community. […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to all our USA friends from DangerousPrototypes!
Flickering pumpkin LED designed in KiCAD
Add some LED goodness to this year’s Halloween pumpkins. This flickering LED design on a pumpkin shaped PCB was drawn up in KiCAD. Grab the design files from the low voltage labs site. It’s a simple schematic with just a switch, resistor, battery holder and 10mm LED. But makes for a nice easy project to […]
Easy to build spirit detector
Halloween is just a few weeks away so why not be prepared with your own easy to build spirit detector! The simple circuit described in this post by fritsl from Let’s Make Robots uses only three BC517 transistors and three resistors connected to an LED, antenna and 6-volt power source to build a device capable […]
May 25: National Geek Day
It’s National Geek Day / Geek Pride Day! According to Wikipedia, “Geek Pride Day is an initiative to promote geek culture, celebrated on 25 May. The date was chosen as to commemorate the release of the first Star Wars film, A New Hope on 25 May 1977 (a/k/a Star Wars Day), but shares the same […]
International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day. Our community can only benefit from diversity and the involvement of anyone who wears the label engineer, hacker, or maker. Ada Lovelace, Adafruit’s namesake, is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer.
A President in favor of open source
“”He who receives an idea from me receives it without lessening me, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me.”” – Thomas Jefferson Happy President’s Day!
Happy New Year 2012 from Dangerous Prototypes
Happy New Year! Thank you for reading the blog and being part of our community in 2011. We’re looking forward to more open hardware projects, more how-tos, more videos, more free PCBs, and more hacking in 2012.
Christmas 2011 geek gifts. What did you get?
What geek gifts did you get? We liked these gloves that work on capacitive touch screens like iPods, phones, etc. Silver threads in the fabric stimulate the screen. Now we don’t have to take off our gloves to reply in the forum.
Merry Christmas!
Santa’s got some help delivering these toys! Merry Christmas to All! Remember, support is available on Christmas. Just give us a shout in the forum.