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Making the threat of radiation visible with lightmapping

Even three decades after the Chernobyl disaster and five years after the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, each of the surrounding communities are still impacted by dangerous radiation levels. However, since the source of the problem is invisible, the relative risks remain difficult to communicate. As a result, the motivation and urgency to help those affected continue […]

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Visualizing “data visualization” with Leds and bubbles

“Data transparency” is a project by Jiayu Liu, a designer and media artist, interested in physical data visualisation and interactive code. The installation runs on Arduino Mega: when the microphone senses a person’s blow, it transforms it in a Led animation and then activates the bubble machine for 8 seconds. The project is not aiming […]

Boards:Mega
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Now you can 3d print lego- compatible LED bricks

The 3d printing tutorial Kristoffer, our 3d specialist, prepared this week is not part of the ongoing LEGO power functions compatible series but makes you still play around modding the famous bricks to add some cool light effects. If you follow the 8 easy steps you’ll be able to print bricks with Arduino Materia 101 that can include […]

Boards:Materia 101
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Experiencing the solar flux with an interactive installation

Dmitry Morozov shared with us a new interactive installation called  Solarman at the Polytech Museum in Moscow. 2014 and It’s a work he created with Julia Borovaya and Edward Rakhmanov using 64 ultra bright LEDs, 12-channel sound system and 8 electrical nerve stimulation electrodes controlled by Arduino Mega :

Boards:Mega
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Pimp your ikea lamp into a customized death star

Ikea hacks are well widespread in the maker movement and David Bliss, founder at Nurun, did a great job transforming the Death Star inspired PS 2014 Pendant Lamp into something more dynamic. The lamp was pimped up with an Arduino Uno and Arduino Motor Shield, NeoPixel LEDs and other components you can see in the illustration.

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Teach kids how colors are made with the color machine

The Color Machine (La macchina dei colori, in Italian language) is a tool to teach children about the use and the operation of RGB color coding, which is used in all digital devices (TVs, smartphones, computers, etc.). It was created with Arduino Mega by an italian duo composed by Fabio Ghidini and Stefano Guerrini: Using 3 knobs you can […]

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Muzzley and Intel Galileo LED strip demo

Muzzley provides libraries for the most popular languages and platforms and in this project allows you to control a led strip with a mobile device (iOS and Android) using an Intel Galileo Board:

Boards:Arduino Certified
Categories:ArduinoGalileo

Bicolor Square Heart/Valentines Necklace #ArduinoMicroMonday

  Bicolor square heart/valentines necklace is a project made with Arduino Micro by Dr_Speed who shared some photos and code  on the Adafruit Forums! heart_bmp[] = { B01101100, B11111110, B11111110, B11111110, B11111110, B01111100, B00111000, B00010000}, I use a micro, but just about anything will do. There’s some Sugru on there to keep the sharp bits from catching on […]

Boards:Micro
Categories:Arduino

An Arduino-controlled RGB lamp

On his blog, Miguel presents one of his latest projects: This project shows the operation of an RGB lamp using a digital LED strip. After activating the bluetooth connection, the user can open the GUI on the PC to control the lamp. The program shows a hue palette divided into 30 rods, one for each LED of […]

Categories:BluetoothCommunityDecorationeHomeEnviromentLamp(s)LED(s)Wireless

Arduino Led Alarm Clock

  This is an original way to hack a dvd-player and integrate it with an allarm-clock. Well, building up a new Digital Alarm Clock with Arduino is the real project, the integration with the DVD-Player is the Hack. Thanks [razrbhr] to send us your project. Arduino led clock driven directly using an Arduino Mega 2560 […]

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