Schlagwort: leds
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This nature-inspired display reacts to ambient sounds
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all need ways to calm down and relax, and few things are as effective as nature itself. Taking inspiration from organic patterns and smooth, flowing waves, dzeng on Instructables has built an LED wall light that responds in real-time to the sounds within a room. The project started out as a 2D vector graphic that…
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Light up the holiday season with a new Plug and Make Kit tutorial!
Reading Time: 2 minutesLooking for a fun and creative way to brighten up the holiday season? With the Arduino Plug and Make Kit, you can build an interactive LED light installation that reacts when someone walks by – perfect for spreading cheer and adding a high-tech twist to your decorations. This project is easy to make,…
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Thriller-inspired, LED-lit jacket comes just in time for Halloween
Reading Time: 2 minutesMichael Jackon’s Thriller music video was arguably the best known of his entire career. It contains many horror themes, a delightful and memorable choreographed dance, and an iconic red jacket designed by Deborah Nadoolman. The video’s horror references make it a Halloween favorite, which is why Louise Katzovitz’s LED-lit reimagining of the Thriller jacket is appropriate…
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Art class stinks! Learn with smell in art class using this olfactory display
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Maria Nikoli, Interaction Designer, MSc., Malmö University Smelling is crucial to our everyday living. But how well do we really understand the role that smells play in our day-to-day? Ask someone who temporarily lost their sense of smell because of COVID-19. They’ll probably tell you about how incredibly boring eating became all…
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Minecraft controls this LED array
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 12th, 2022 A common question asked by new makers is “what is the difference between a microcontroller development board and a single-board computer?” Or, in more common terms, “what is the difference between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi?” There are many technical differences, but people are really…
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PocketView is an LED display that shows info through clothes and other fabrics
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 16th, 2021 When receiving a notification on your phone, it can be a tedious process to take the device out of a pocket, unlock the screen, and then read the message. In order to make viewing simple information much faster, University of Waterloo researchers developed a small pocketable…
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Old dining table converted into the ultimate poker table using Arduino and LEDs
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — September 29th, 2021 Poker is a fun game to play with a group of friends or as part of a league, and manually having to keep track of turns by passing a dealer chip around can get tiresome… quickly. Redditor tatey13 had the idea to build a custom poker…
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This lamp consists of 122 LED-lit domes on a sphere, controllable over Bluetooth
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 11th, 2021 There are already countless projects that utilize individually addressable RGB LED strips in some way or another, except most of them lack a “wow” factor. This is one problem that Philipp Niedermayer’s Sphere2 Lamp does not suffer from, as it is a giant sphere comprised of 122 smaller domes…
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Pomodor-glow! Improve your study session with this colorful countdown timer
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 28th, 2021 Studying without getting distracted can pose a significant challenge to students, which is why having small productivity hacks could be beneficial. Alexandra Charland — who goes by alch_emist on Instructables — wanted to try out the popular Pomodoro technique, which involves working for 25 minutes uninterrupted…
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This shield brings a tic-tac-toe game to your Arduino Mega, complete with an AI opponent
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 22nd, 2021 Tic-tac-toe is a nearly perfect time-wasting game as it’s quick to play, easy to learn, and has a very small set of rules, which makes it ideal for implementation on a microcontroller. Michael Klements wanted to take it a step further and add a simple AI…
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PIR sensors automatically light up workbench zones
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — May 21st, 2021 Jeremy Cook recently constructed a workbench out of wood and plastic supports, and after several iterations, he’s enhanced it with LEDs to selectively shine light where he’s working. Initially, this meant a simple strip of 12V non-addressable lighting that turned on and off. He then…
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Bringing Snake to your coffee table
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 21st, 2021 Snake is a classic game — more a genre of games — that dates all the way back to 1976 with the release of the Blockade arcade game. Many consoles and devices have received variations of Snake, putting it in the same league as Tetris and block breakers. Now Ty and Gig…
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Play Simon and the piano on this glowing geodesic dome
Reading Time: < 1 minutePlay Simon and the piano on this glowing geodesic dome Arduino Team — February 18th, 2021 Geodesic domes, approximately spherical structures made from an arrangement of triangular faces, are fascinating in and of themselves. Add light and sound, as was done here by students at the University of Málaga in Spain, and you…
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Turn your staircase into a flaircase with this LED system
Reading Time: 2 minutesTurn your staircase into a flaircase with this LED system Arduino Team — January 22nd, 2021 If you live in a house with stairs and have to traipse up and down at night, it’s best to have some sort of light that guides you. Although a cell phone can work just fine,…
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This 3D-printed UFO lamp will leave you amoosed!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis 3D-printed UFO lamp will leave you amoosed! Arduino Team — January 11th, 2021 As we all know, when aliens descend from outer space, they often beam bovine up for testing and observation. While you might not have the privilege of seeing this process in action, “OneldMONstr” has created the next best thing:…
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NASA control panel lights up kids’ imaginations
Reading Time: 2 minutesNASA control panel lights up kids’ imaginations Arduino Team — December 17th, 2020 As a gift for his sister-in-law who runs a daycare, “r570sv” built a NASA-inspired control panel for the kids there to use. She had enjoyed seeing an earlier – and perhaps less kid-friendly – version that he made, so this…
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Living Pixels is a light frame that comes alive when you leave
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiving Pixels is a light frame that comes alive when you leave Arduino Team — December 15th, 2020 As smart devices become more ingrained in our everyday lives, it’s perhaps only natural that we start to think of them as living things. What if such gadgets actually did have personalities and emotions…
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These side glow fiber optic panels make beautiful wall decor
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThese side glow fiber optic panels make beautiful wall decor Arduino Team — December 9th, 2020 Side glow fiber optics – unlike their cousins that efficiently transmit light from one point to another – emit a glow along the length of each strand when light is applied. This creates a beautiful…
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10 most popular modules and sensors for the Arduino UNO all on one board
Reading Time: 2 minutes10 most popular modules and sensors for the Arduino UNO all on one board Arduino Team — December 1st, 2020 Getting started with electronics and sensing the world around you is now easier than ever with the new all-in-one Arduino Sensor Kit from Arduino, in partnership with Seeed. The 10 most popular…
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These cornhole boards react to your bean bag tosses
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThese cornhole boards react to your bean bag tosses Arduino Team — November 25th, 2020 The lawn game of cornhole has seen a surge in popularity over the last couple of decades. But if you’ve ever thought about raising its cool factor, then YouTuber Hardware Unknown has just what you’ve been waiting…
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An old-school “neon” sign made with LEDs
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn old-school “neon” sign made with LEDs Arduino Team — November 5th, 2020 Can you make an Arduino-controlled neon sign? While certainly possible, such a setup would involve working with rather high voltages, and the skill to shape glass tubing. As an easier alternative, Max Danilin (who also goes by “gabbapeople”) created an…
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This LED coffee table reacts to whatever’s on top
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis LED coffee table reacts to whatever’s on top Arduino Team — October 16th, 2020 The YouTube team “Ty and Gig Builds” recently decided to make their coffee table a little more interesting, adding a chain of 96 addressable LEDs underneath its clear surface. This would have been neat enough by itself, but…
