SquareWare by Ray’s Hobby offers the same general format as a Lilypad or Flora but uses a PIC microcontroller: An open-source microcontroller board designed specially for wearable electronics projects. It’s...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday November 30th, 2012 7:30 AM
Categories: Open Source Hardware, Electronics | No Comments
Being wet weather season, this ambient weather forecasting umbrella stand hack from Simone Marra illustrates just how easy it is to integrate a networked controller with your project. Utilizing a...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Wednesday November 14th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 11 Comments
Do you like your rainbow of flavor to be sorted by discrete wavelength? If so, then you'll appreciate Brian Egenriether's Skittles Sorting Machine 2. Using an IR LED and phototransistor...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Monday November 5th, 2012 2:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Food & Beverage | 4 Comments
Here’s another interesting physical computing platform; the PIC-based Create USB Interface. The original design was made by Dan Overholt as a bridge between computer and world for musical and artistic...
Posted by Shawn Wallace | Monday June 4th, 2012 10:02 AM
Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment
Our friend Raphael Abrams from NYC Resistor needs to track the hours he works as a freelancer but none of the solutions out there work very well for him. He...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday February 11th, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 3 Comments
Here's a neat LED analouge clock that simulates the hands of a traditional clock using rows of LEDs.
Posted by Matt Mets | Monday September 13th, 2010 1:22 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Electronics, Furniture | No Comments
Let's Make Robots user Rob "renkku" Re is getting some pretty good results from his sound-activated camera flash system, called the Picture-Axe.
Posted by Matt Mets | Wednesday August 11th, 2010 7:10 AM
Categories: Electronics, Photography & Video | No Comments
Alan Parekh of Hacked Gadgets made this really nice looking gear clock using a PIC microcontroller, a scavenged stepper motor, and a bunch of wooden gears that he cut out...
Posted by Matt Mets | Wednesday October 21st, 2009 12:56 PM
Categories: Craft, Electronics, General, Workshop | 5 Comments
Ben wrote in to share his latest labor of love, a homebrew VoIP-capable web server running on a... wait a minute, on a PIC?
Posted by Matt Mets | Monday October 5th, 2009 2:45 PM
Categories: Electronics | 6 Comments
MAKE subscriber Brian writes in to point out MemAxe, a Simon-like game made with an 8-pin PicAxe microcontroller.
Posted by Matt Mets | Wednesday September 30th, 2009 1:00 PM
Categories: Electronics | No Comments
Anonymous writes - I was real interested in music theory and how to computationally create something aurally pleasing. Though the square waves may not be aurally pleasing (for most), I...
Posted by Collin Cunningham | Monday May 5th, 2008 5:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Music | 1 Comment
Here is a great way to spy on people survey your surroundings. With Bluetooth integration, it is completely wireless and is controlled by a video game controller. The camera movement...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Friday March 7th, 2008 5:48 PM
Categories: Electronics, Robotics | 1 Comment
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