Collaborate Disseminate
With all those e-paper based projects doing the rounds these days, including in our Low Power Challenge, you’d almost forget that monochrome LCDs were the original ultra-low-power display. Without them, …read more Continue reading Low Power Challenge: LCD Solar Creatures Live on Sunlight, Sleep at Night
It might not seem too impressive these days, but when microcontrollers with hardware USB support were more expensive and rare, the VUSB library was often used to create USB devices …read more Continue reading ATtiny85 Automates Your Smartphone
As [Phil Greenland] explains in the first part of his excellent write-up, the lithium battery used to keep the real-time clock (RTC) going on the Macintosh SE/30 has a nasty …read more Continue reading Swap the Clock Chip on the Mac SE/30 with an ATTiny85
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade, right? What about when life hands you annoyingly intrusive work-from-home policies that require you to physically stay at your computer even though …read more Continue reading Mouse Whisperer Keeps You Working, Even When You Need a Break
Should a clock be round? Depends on the style of clock, we suppose. After all, we wouldn’t expect to see a digital clock with a round readout just for fun. …read more Continue reading Circular Binary Clock Uses the Power to Tell Time
For those that haven’t heard, ultrasonic levitation is a process by which two or more ultrasonic transducers are set opposite to each other and excited in such a way as …read more Continue reading Mini Ultrasonic Levitation Kit is an Exercise in Sound Minimalist Design
Halloween is coming fast and what better way to add to your Halloween ornamentation than [Wagiminator]’s cute NeoCandle tea light simulator. [Wagiminator] has modified a 3D printed ghost along with …read more Continue reading A Cold Light To Warm Your Heart
Age, we’re told, is just a number, but that number seems to be the ever-increasing count of injuries of a ridiculous nature. Where once the younger version of us could …read more Continue reading Sleep Posture Monitor Warns You Away from Dangerous Positions
[Gili Yankovitch] has always wanted some kind of macro keypad for all those boss-slaying combos he keeps up the sleeve of his wizard robe while playing WoW. Seventeen years later, …read more Continue reading a Customizable Macropad to Make Anyone’s Tail Wag
[Görg Pflug] wrote in with his really nice graphics library. It’s got multiple layers, two text consoles, greyscale, internal halftoning, and sprites. It can pull off a number of classic …read more Continue reading Mindblowing Graphics from an ATtiny85