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ESP8266 Coaster Keeps Your Drink Warm

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Abe Connelly

Looking for the perfect winter desk accessory? [Wq] has created a beautiful coaster made out of PCBs  that can keep your drink warm with an internal heater. (Chinese). An ESP8266 …read more Continue reading ESP8266 Coaster Keeps Your Drink Warm→

Posted in coaster, ESP8266, mqtt, pcb art, PCB Hacks, PCB Heater

Don’t Lose Your Cool With This Fridge Buzzer

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Abe Connelly
A composite picture with a 3D printed cylinder with a magnet at one end held in a 3D printed housing ring on the left composite picture and a fridge buzzer board with buzzer, CR2032 battery, MCP430 microcontroller and hall effect sensor slid into a 3D printed base on the right part of the composite picture

[CarrotIndustries] wanted to add an audible warning for when the refrigerator door was left open. The result is a fridge buzzer that attaches to the inside of a fridge door …read more Continue reading Don’t Lose Your Cool With This Fridge Buzzer→

Posted in 3d Printer hacks, alarm, buzzer, door sensor, fridge, hall effect sensor, home hacks, msp430 | Tagged Refrigerator

Ring in the New Year With This Cute Cat Doorbell

Posted on January 16, 2023 by Abe Connelly

What better way to ring in the new year than with [iSax Laboratories]’ charming little project that replaces a doorbell with a Maneki-Neko cat figurine to ring a physical bell? …read more Continue reading Ring in the New Year With This Cute Cat Doorbell→

Posted in 9G servo, Arduboy Nano, cute, doorbell, home hacks, maneki-neko, Neko

Get Pumped for This Miniature Gym

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Abe Connelly
3d printed tiny gym in a box with mirror and led strip lighting

[Duncan McIntyre] lives in the UK but participated in a secret Santa gift exchange for his Dutch friends’ Sinterklaas celebration. In traditional maker fashion, [Duncan] went overboard and created a …read more Continue reading Get Pumped for This Miniature Gym→

Posted in 3d Printer hacks, arduino, Arduino Hacks, atmega328p, desktop toy, led strip, miniature, mp3, peak detector

IO Connected Radio Alarm Clock

Posted on December 20, 2022 by Abe Connelly
Two hands holding a 3d printed alarm clock with an LCD display, snooze button and knob on top

[CoreWeaver] creates an alarm clock that includes features one might expect in such a project, including an FM radio, snooze button inputs and a display, but goes beyond the basic …read more Continue reading IO Connected Radio Alarm Clock→

Posted in alarm clock, AM/FM, atmega328, atmega328p, clock hacks, DS1307 RTC, i2c, TEA5767

Laser-Cutting A Flurry of Generative Snowflakes

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Abe Connelly
A persons handing holding a pile of generative, laser cut snowflake ornaments

It’s the holiday season, and what better way to celebrate than to carve out some generative snowflakes on your laser cutter? [Bleeptrack] has developed a web-based tool that creates generative …read more Continue reading Laser-Cutting A Flurry of Generative Snowflakes→

Posted in generative art, javascript, laser cutter, laser hacks, ornament, snowflake, Web App, web-application | Tagged Art

Ply Your Craft With Tubular Origami

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Abe Connelly

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have just published a paper on creating modular tubular origami machines which they call “Kinegami”, a portmanteau of “kinematic” and “origami”. The idea behind …read more Continue reading Ply Your Craft With Tubular Origami→

Posted in laser origami, papercraft, prototyping, robots hacks | Tagged kirigami, Origami

A Weather Station For Whether It Rains or Shines

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Abe Connelly
An esp32 weather station with 3d printed anemometer, rain gauge and wind vane mounted on an aluminum frame sitting in an overgrown lawn

[Giovanni Aggiustatutto] creates a DIY weather station to measure rain fall, wind direction, humidity and temperature. [Giovanni] has been working on various parts of the weather station, including the rain …read more Continue reading A Weather Station For Whether It Rains or Shines→

Posted in 3d Printer hacks, anemometer, BMP180, dht22, ESP32, rain gauge, wind vane | Tagged Weather

Blackout Logger Keeps Track of Power Outages

Posted on November 27, 2022 by Abe Connelly
A two picture montage of the blackout logger, the left picture being the front e-ink display of the data logger in a black case and the second picture of the back of the data logger, with the raspberry pi pico show attached to an e-ink display, both sitting on a wooden table.

[Dmytro Panin] lives in Kyiv, Ukraine where there have been rolling blackouts to stabilize the power grid. To help keep track of when the blackouts might happen, be they planned …read more Continue reading Blackout Logger Keeps Track of Power Outages→

Posted in data logger, DS3231, DS3231 RTC, eink, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Pico, rtc

LEDs Put New Spin on a Sonic The Hedgehog Costume

Posted on November 26, 2022 by Abe Connelly
A two picture montage of a boy wearing a sonic the hedgehog costume with LEDs in them. The left picture is at night with the boy wearing sunglasses and a face mask with the sonic costume head piece lit up. The right picture is during the day with the boy wearing a face mask, holding a plastic pu mpkin bucket for candy and wearing a lit up sonic the hedgehog costume in the front yard of a house.

[Wentworthm] couldn’t say no to his son’s plea for a Sonic the Hedgehog costume for Halloween but also couldn’t resist sprucing it up with LEDs either. The end result is …read more Continue reading LEDs Put New Spin on a Sonic The Hedgehog Costume→

Posted in Arduino Hacks, arduino nano, costume, Halloween, led hacks, sonic, ws2812b

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