3D Printed Microcontroller Dice Roller
This is a just-for-fun project I did in the Digilent MakerSpace. Usually whenever I play board games I use a dice-rolling smartphone app since dice are so easy to lose. I thought I would try making my...
View ArticleThe perfect Remote, Programmable, Controller for interactive LED strips
Since when white light emitting high brightness LED are available, the handover from traditional lighting bulbs to the solid-state lighting has become irreversible: LEDs have an efficiency (expressed...
View ArticleElectronic Heart (Flashing LEDs) – Mother’s Day Project
Mother’s Day was approaching, and I am getting my 8 year old son started with electronics. So why not combine the two? In the next few pages we’ll show you the project we did – a blinking heart with...
View ArticleTrippy RGB Color Mixing NightLight
Project is based on A Trippy Crystal Nightlight by Charles Platt in Make magazine volume 25, see URL below for additional details. A fun and simple project to get started with PICAXE microcontrollers....
View ArticleMädchen Machen Technik using pic-microcontroller
The “Mädchen Machen Technik” workshop is designed to give high school students an introduction to microcontrollers. The students will build a flashing light pattern and/or a counter-timer. In the...
View Article2-Channel IR Relay Controller for PIC10F200
Description This project is a 2 channel infrared (IR) remote controlled relay driver with power saving. It works with 12-bit SIRC IR signals as used by Sony remote controls. The controller also...
View Articlemake your own wearable LED display using pic-microcontroller
jump to a section:supplies about LED arrays design construction customizing/programming washing and wearing troubleshooting and FAQ **NOTE** As of Fall 2007, skip the ugly microcontroller programming...
View Article7 Segment LED display with PIC controller and Flowcode V5
First of all, if you have any questions, feel free to comment! I’d be more than happy to answer your question as good as possible!! Materials used : – PIC 18F452 Microcontroller ( any PIC...
View ArticleExpanding the number of I/O lines using Microchip MCP23008 using pic...
A microcontroller comes with a limited number of general purpose input and output (GPIO) ports. However, some applications may require more ports than are available on the microcontroller. In such a...
View ArticleConnecting multiple tact switches on a single input pin of a microcontroller
Normally one tact switch requires one digital input pin of a microcontroller. Some designs implement keypad style multiplexing to get multiple switches on fewer inputs. However, there exist other...
View ArticleMikroElektronika’s “Ready for PIC” board talks to “Processing” using pic...
“Ready for PIC“ is one of MikroElektronika‘s compact prototyping boards for 28 and 40 pin PIC microcontrollers. The board comes with PIC16F887 microcontroller which is preprogrammed with an UART...
View ArticleThe ChromoDisk
When I saw the Aurora LED 9×18 Instructable, I was inspired. However, it’s built on the PIC microcontroller while I am most familiar with the AVR microcontrollers. Plus, I already have the...
View ArticleLucid Dream/Dream Recall Machine using infrared.
This is my first instructable, so I hope everything is clear and hoping you find it interesting, and would appreciate any feedback, so here I go. I am sill testing this device with other people, but...
View ArticleAurora 9×18 RGB LED art
*** Check out my blog for updated version of this project and more! *** My obsession of LEDs has led me to this. Aurora 9×18 is a thing of beauty (if I can say so myself) – has 162 RGB-LEDs in a...
View ArticleArduino controlled light dimmer
WARNING: Some people try to build this with an optocoupler with zerocrossing coz ‘that is better’ right? Some are even told in electronics shops it is better to use such an optocoupler. WRONG. This...
View ArticleComputer Controlled Star
In this instructable I am going to show you how to build a Star with 64 LEDs. The Star operates by itself but the operation mode can be changed when connecting it to a computer via a serial (RS232)...
View ArticleHow to Create an Eye Catching Display (LED Style)
This is not as much an instructable as a record of how I made a school project. While repeating exactly what I did will probably not help y ou, this project can be modified to make almost any display...
View ArticleRemote Control mood light[/jar]
I wanted to play around with something IR remote-controlled, so I decided to make a remote-control mood light. There were two parts to the project: making the remote and making the light. For the...
View ArticleInteractive LED Beer Pong Table 2.0 (BPT X5)
The nice thing about building one of these tables from a kit is that the more difficult parts of the project have been completed (Electronic Design, PCBs made, etc.) but more importantly, you can fully...
View ArticleMirror “Tube”– LED Optical illusion
One day, looking for interesting schemes with light effects to construct, came across this wonderful effect. Quite liked the idea but did not know how to accomplish is, until one day found the way....
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