Plant Growth Accelerated Tremendously with LEDs

Plants compared side-by-side, with LED-illuminated plants growing way more than the sunlight-illuminated plants

[GreatScott!] was bummed to see his greenhouse be empty and lifeless in winter. So, he set out to take the greenhouse home with him. Well, at least, a small part …read more Continue reading Plant Growth Accelerated Tremendously with LEDs

Giant CNC Partners With Powerful Laser Diode

The laser module shown cutting shapes out of a piece of cardboard that's lying on the CNC's work surface

[Jeshua Lacock] from 3DTOPO owns a large-format CNC (4’x8′, or 1.2×2.4 m), that he strongly feels is lacking laser-cutting capabilities. The frame is there, and a 150 W CO2 laser …read more Continue reading Giant CNC Partners With Powerful Laser Diode

Pianolizer Helps Your Musical Projects Distinguish Notes

Stanislaw playing notes on his MIDI keyboard, with the LEDs on the LED strip lighting up right above the note he's playing, driven by the Raspberry Pi that runs a script based on the Pianolizer toolkit

[Stanislaw Pusep] has gifted us with the Pianolizer project – an easy-to-use toolkit for music exploration and visualization, an audio spectrum analyzer helping you turn sounds into piano notes. You …read more Continue reading Pianolizer Helps Your Musical Projects Distinguish Notes

Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less

In today’s “predictable things that happened before and definitely will happen again”, Insteon, a smart home company boasting the Insteon ecosystem of devices built around their proprietary communication standards, has …read more Continue reading Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less