In this project, we’ll turn a MAKE MintDuino microcontroller and a Mintronics Survival Pack into a replica of retro electronic memory games like Simon and the Tandy Pocket Repeat game...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Electronics, Arduino | No Comments
Switching plug-in appliances from your computer or microcontroller isn’t difficult in theory, but doing it without turning your home into a potential deathtrap can be tricky. The safer way is...
Posted by Andrew Wedgbury
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By John Baichtal and Adam Wolf Do you remember those classic video game arcades filled with rattling quarters, 8-bit songs, and flashing lights? You can reclaim that excitement in your...
Posted by John Baichtal
Categories: Electronics, Arduino, Fun & Games | 2 Comments
A garage door opener openly displayed inside your car can be an incentive to thieves. Documents from the glove compartment are likely to reveal your home address, and with the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan
Categories: Fun & Games, Home | No Comments
The BeatBearing is an exciting and intuitive way to make music. Move the balls on a grid, and you change the beat. Music sequencing couldn’t be simpler. Like countless other...
Posted by Peter Bennett
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It might have been Robots of Saturn that first got my young brain thinking about building a mechanical man. In that obscure 1962 sci-fi adventure novel, Dig Allen and his...
Posted by Gordon McComb
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Robotics | No Comments
Anyone who’s shivered in the dark at a scary movie or laughed at the unintentional cheese-ball of a bad sci-fi (paging Ed Wood) knows the eerie sounds of the theremin....
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Music | 11 Comments
Jim Chen designed an excellent electronic "Whack-a-Mole" game using 555 timers, LEDs, and bent-diode touch sensors, that you can build on a solderless breadboard; for a full explanation, check out...
Posted by Steve Hobley
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | No Comments
Back in the 1970s, my friend Wayne Gillis and I used to do light shows at science fiction conventions. We had the usual panoply of overhead, slide, and custom-made projectors,...
Posted by Mike Gould
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RC hobby servomotors were just made for hacking. What’s not obvious is how much you can hack them — with a few tricks, you can use a servo to control...
Posted by Windell Oskay
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Motorize a phenakistoscope, a 19th-century parlor novelty that preceded motion pictures, and keep its frames synched to an LED strobe by using a sensor and an Arduino microcontroller. Invented in...
Posted by Dan Rasmussen
Categories: Arduino, Electronics | No Comments
Only you know how to make this nifty magic gadget light up.
Posted by Jeff Tregre
Categories: Fun & Games, Electronics | No Comments
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