Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
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...Tags: Seeed Studio, Thanksgiving
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving to all our USA friends from DangerousPrototypes!Tags: Thanksgiving, turkey
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
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...Tags: Halloween, LED, pcb
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
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...Tags: ghost detector, paranormal
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
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...Tags: National Geek Day
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
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.Tags: holiday, Women's day
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Monday, February 20th, 2012
"''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!Tags: President's day, Thomas Jefferson
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
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.Tags: New Year
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Monday, December 26th, 2011
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.Tags: Agloves
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Sunday, December 25th, 2011
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.Tags: Merry Christmas
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Stefano has completed work on a holiday project known as the DIY Santa Claus Singer with Flyport. It is built around an animated Santa Claus decoration with the control switch bypassed with an NPN transistor. The switch is controlled over the internet via the Arduino/ethernet shield combo which responds to...Tags: Flyport, OpenPicus
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Matt Richardson from MAKE presents his take on the traditional CHristmas tree email notifier utilizing the Arduino and the Ethernet Shield. He says: "On a set interval, the Arduino will connect to a PHP-enabled web server which will, in turn, check for new email. The PHP web server will return...Tags: christmas tree, Make
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
A simple example of a Christmas light project using store bought LED lights and components you probably have lying around the shop. Mark VandeWettering found a set of battery powered LED Christmas lights and decided to combine this this an ATtiny13 to make an MCU controlled lighting display. He explains:...Tags: ATtiny13. Christmas lights
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
CheerLights is an ioBridge Labs project that allows people's lights all across the world to synchronize, stay linked based on social networking trends. It's a way to connect physical things with social networking experiences and spread cheer at the same time. We are all connected. The Arduino is used to...Tags: CheerLights, christmas, ioBridge
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Happy Thanksgiving to all from DangerousPrototypes!Tags: Thanksgiving, turkey
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
ColorNode is a wireless Arduino-compatible microcontroller board designed to replace the stock controller board on GE Color Effects light strings. It's a project designed by digitalmisery and was inspired by deep darc's Hacking Christmas Lights project last year. The schematic and photos are available, and they promise to post the...Tags: Colornode, holiday lighting
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
Randofo published the details on this flamethrowing Jack-O'-Lantern on Instructables. This bad boy is designed for remote control via Squidbee RF modules so you can shoot a one-second burst of flame on command. (As randofo observes, you should be able to substitute any Arduino/XBee combo for the SquidBee.) This definitely...Tags: Halloween project
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Boris presents this project just in time for Halloween. It's a simple Halloween skull which employs an Arduino to read the level from sound sensors and controls a servo connected to the skull's mandible. You can see more project details and get the source code from the Open-Electronics website. Via...Tags: Halloween project
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Friday, October 29th, 2010
Hack a Day made a Jack-o-lantern that shows animations on a LED matrix. Mike shows you how to design and run a multiplexed display with an AVR. Then he guts a pumpkin and installs 70 LEDs with power tools. Gourds, LEDs, and power tools, what's not to love? We're big...Tags: jack-o-lantern, LED Matrix
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQvesYe2ed8[/embed] Piotr got a hackable Christmas card PCB on free PCB Sunday, and made this time-lapse video of his build. Excellent use of tweezers, a key tool for surface mount soldering.Tags: build, Christmas card, holiday, time-lapse
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