#LED
89 postsTetragonal Trapezohedron Retrospective
Retrospective of the Tetragonal Trapezohedron polyhedron lamp
Read postSeeed Xiao ESP32-C6 using Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 blink sketch
How to get a Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 board up and running with Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 and blink an LED.
Read postPCB Metro maps retrospective
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Read postDodecahedron PCB Retrospective
Retrospective of the dodecahedron polyhedron lamp
Read postDodecahedron PCB Design
PCB design of a pentagon plate of a dodecahedron lamp
Read postIdea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Read postIdea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Read postIdea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Read postIdea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Read postIdea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Read postIdea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Read postIdea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Read postIdea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Read postIdea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Read postIdea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Read postIdea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Read postIdea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Read postIdea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Read postIdea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Read postIdea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Read postIdea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Read postIdea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Read postIdea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Read postIdea 028 - Finite Future Clock
An A2 LED panel that shows a progress bar of how much of your life has passed and how much time is left.
Read postIdea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Read postIdea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Read postIdea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Read postIdea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Read postIdea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
Read postIdea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each of the 130 mammals in BC, with LED eyes and an SAO connector for an art show display.
Read postIdea 002 - Keyboard Flute
An electronic flute PCB the size of a ruler with hot-swappable keyboard switches, a MEMS mic for breath control, and an ESP32.
Read postJanuary 2020 brain dump
January 2020 brain dump: links on polyhedra, plotter art, LED lava lamps, capacitive touch PCBs, and tools for makers.
Read postPanels - Stained glass windows project
Walkthrough of every panel in the digital stained glass window series: beehive, mountains, stars, hexagon weave, heart, sun, and more.
Read postDigital stained glass workshop - Post mortem
Post mortem from the September 2019 digital stained glass workshop at Maker Labs: what worked, what broke, and what six attendees built.
Read postDigital stained glass workshop
A workshop at MakerLabs Vancouver where attendees design a 9x9 inch illuminated stained glass window with WS2811 LEDs and CNC-cut foam.
Read postESP8266 + Neopixel + FastLED - Workshop slides
Slides from the March 2019 ESP8266, NeoPixel, and FastLED workshop I taught at Maker Labs.
Read postFeb 2019 brain dump
February 2019 links on Arduino LED projects, an Etch A Sketch CNC, a zombie ESP8266 game, and James Clar's neon art.
Read postTrip to Shenzhen 2018
Two days at the Huaqiang Road markets in Shenzhen and the pile of LED strips, switches, and Pi cases I came back with.
Read postWood frames - Stained glass windows project
Building hexagonal baltic birch frames for the stained glass panels on the table saw, with a grooved channel holding the acrylic.
Read postPrograming - Stained glass windows project
Writing the firmware for the stained glass panels with FastLED on an ESP8266, using LED offset sets to drive randomised patterns.
Read postHardware - Stained glass windows project
Parts list for the stained glass windows: white acrylic, square WS2812B LEDs, a Wemos D1 mini, and a 5V 5A supply.
Read postTech Demo - Stained glass windows project
Tech demo notes for the stained glass windows: gluing acrylic, building cardstock dividers, and killing LED hotspots.
Read postInspiration - Stained glass windows project
Inspiration for the stained glass windows project, from Lumina Lab's Stoicheia dodecahedron to mandala work on Instagram.
Read postVancouver Maker Faire 2017
What I brought to Vancouver Maker Faire 2017: the LED Pillar rhythm game, laser kaleidoscope, fox mask, thunderstorm cloud, and more.
Read postNotes from May 2017
May 2017 links: ESP32 sniffers, a giant laser-cut Bulbasaur, an 8-bit computer from scratch, Big Poop Data, and the BLACK 2.0 paint.
Read postNotes from February 2017
February 2017 links: laser-cut art from 1000 Errors, paper beetle kits, Mongoose OS, the USB Killer V3, and the CIA cartography map drops.
Read postNotes from January 2017
January 2017 links: HexCells, the Universal Play Machine, makerjs for laser drawings, Mosquitto MQTT, and Node-RED home automation.
Read postNovember 2016 interesting link dump
November 2016 link dump: open source car control, ESP8266 MQTT LED controllers, the Maslow CNC, Boldport, and the poop emoji oral history.
Read postHalloween LED Fox Mask
A coroplast low-poly fox mask wired with NeoPixels and a WeMos D1 mini, with a brightness dial after Halloween blinded everyone.
Read postFixing a broken particle photon firmware in windows for the L3D Cube
How to recover an L3D Cube Particle Photon from the red SOS blink by reflashing firmware on Windows.
Read postDay 99 - VHS LED Wall
Pattern tests for the firefly room running on the VHS LED wall installation.
Read postDay 98 - Rainbow halloween hat
A Halloween hat in progress with NeoPixel LEDs driven by an Arduino.
Read postDay 96 - This is a not bomb
A sous vide PID temperature controller box with LEDs, seven-segment displays, and a relay. Not a bomb.
Read postDay 95 - IStandWithAhmed workshop
Source code for the IStandWithAhmed workshop, a binary count-up clock with a WS2811 strip and Arduino.
Read postDay 93 - Burning man belt
A NeoPixel LED belt built for Burning Man that cycles through colour patterns.
Read postDay 81 - Voronoi tower
A 20 by 10 inch laser-cut prototype of a voronoi pylon lantern, aiming for a 7-foot final version.
Read postDay 79 - 3D printed horn
A glow-in-the-dark 3D printed unicorn horn for Burning Man, with colour-changing LEDs to be added later.
Read postDay 53 - Testing LED strips
Testing WS2812b LED strips driven by Arduino Pro Minis in prep for BITF.
Read postDay 45 - LED strip test
A short test video of an LED strip running animations for the Pocket Universe dome.
Read postDay 44 - LEDs and Electronics installed in button panel
Wired LEDs and sound electronics into the button panel, with the Raspberry Pi triggering 50+ effects at once.
Read postDay 43 - Installing leds in the Hexagon star panel
Installed the LED strips behind the hexagon star panel from day 27, animations start tomorrow.
Read postDay 42 - All pixel build day
Built the AllPixel LED driver kit from Maniacal Labs to drive all the LEDs on the Pocket Universe dome.
Read postDay 39 - Inside of the dome
Inside the Pocket Universe dome: 3200 WS2810 LEDs across 10 networked Arduinos, with sound and buttons still to wire.
Read postDay 26 - L3D cube build
Built the L3D Cube kit, a small 8x8x8 RGB LED cube with a diffuser dome that is fun to play with.
Read postDay 20 - LEDs working Untztrument trellis midi kit
The Adafruit Untztrument trellis kit from day 4 with its LEDs and brain finally wired up and playing.
Read postDay 15 - Arcade button panel
A test-cut Pocket Universe panel with arcade-button holes, half to be swapped for matching LEDs.
Read postDay 14 - Test polyhedron
A paper trapezohedron test for a planned set of twelve laser-cut wooden lantern shapes lit with LEDs.
Read postDay 4 - Untztrument trellis midi kit
Adafruit Untztrument trellis MIDI kit built in a laser-cut acrylic case for wireless dome lighting control.
Read postDay 3 - Arcade button midi controller
An Arduino Leonardo wired to laser-cut arcade buttons as a MIDI controller for the Pocket Universe dome lighting.
Read postDay 2 - 20x hexagon
Twenty laser-cut hexagons taped together around a single light source, made on the VHS laser as a light study.
Read postA blue star sign
A glowing backlit star sign cut from coroplast with 12 RGB LEDs behind it.
Read postGetting started with your Raspberry PI
Step-by-step Raspberry Pi starter notes: NOOBS, SSH, AdaFruit WebIDE, and a Python blink script on the GPIO pins.
Read postGetting started with Raspberry PI - Wednesday Sep 11th, 2013 @VHS
Intro to Raspberry Pi night at VHS: install the OS, SSH in, blink an LED from Python using the GPIO pins.
Read postRaspberry PI and the GPIO pins
Setting up a Raspberry Pi headless, wiring the GPIO pins to an LED and a magnetic door switch, and pushing readings to COSM.
Read postVancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011
Notes from Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011: sign posts, a spin-art box, the milk jug dragon, and the Mondo Spider.
Read postLED light bulb suit.
Bookmark of an LED light bulb suit to recreate for Burning Man.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Status update and mechanical issues
Twelve days before Maker Faire the 6-foot POV ring bent under stress, so the build shrank to a bicycle rim.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - LED test 3
A second RGB LED test with 2-pin screw terminals between each OctoBrite CYANEA board, much more reliable.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - LED test
Video of five OctoBrite CYANEA boards wire-wrapped in series and driven by an Arduino off a PC power supply.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Software
Software progress on the POV globe with a frame buffer class, bluetooth serial loading, and an ADXL345 accelerometer.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Research other peoples projects.
Research notes on other POV display projects that influenced the RGB LED globe build.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Parts shopping
Parts haul for the RGB LED POV globe: 100 Piranha LEDs, sample TLC5947 drivers from TI, an OctoBrite board, and a junkyard AC motor.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Research LED
Picking the right through-hole common-anode RGB LED for the POV globe, comparing prices across Adafruit, SparkFun, and Alibaba.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Research
Research notes for a 64 RGB LED persistence-of-vision globe big enough to stand inside, with shift registers and motor planning.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-16 - 2007-05-22
Weekly del.icio.us dump: oscilloscope art, a homebrew lava lamp, an ice-bulb instructable, and a pile of dice game writeups.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-02
Weekly del.icio.us dump on guitar stompboxes, an RGB mood lamp, ferrofluid Morpho Towers, Game of Life, and the Translink bus-stop hack.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 03/28/2007
Weekly del.icio.us dump covering a Van de Graaff generator, an LED sequence learner, GPS loggers, password crackers, and more.
Read postMark Jenkins - Plastic babies
Mark Jenkins makes cheap plastic babies from plastic wrap and clear tape, with ideas for turning them into LED-lit sculptures.
Read postA mini hydroelectric damn that runs a LED inside your shower head.
A forum project to put a tiny water-driven turbine inside a shower head so it powers an LED while you shower.
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