Collaborate Disseminate
[Charlyn] wanted to highlight their friends beautiful mug collection, so the Glowy Coaster was born. The coaster is made up of six layers of laser cut acrylic. The top and …read more Continue reading Your Mug Will Like This Glowy Coaster
[Maarten Pennings] shares a word clock project – but not the regular kind. For a start, this clock is a shining demonstration of hobbyist-available 3D printing technologies, with embedded light …read more Continue reading An Impeccably Documented Word Clock In Dutch
Everyone loves LED matrices, and even if you can’t find what you like commercially, it’s pretty easy to make just what you want. Need it big? No problem; just order …read more Continue reading Big LED Matrix Becomes Tiny LED Matrix Thanks to Fiber Optics
Often, financial motivation results in people writing great educational material for hackers. Such is absolutely the case with this extensive documentation blog post on addressable LEDs by [DeRun]. This article …read more Continue reading Teaching You Everything You Might Have Missed About Addressable LEDs
Addressable LEDs are wonderful things, with products like Neopixels making it easy to create all kinds of vibrant, blinking glowables. However, for those without a lot of electronics experience, using …read more Continue reading Tutorial Teaches You To Use Neopixels With Micropython
One of the problems with a classic Turing machine is the tape must be infinitely long. [Mark’s] Turing Ring still doesn’t have an infinite tape, but it does make it …read more Continue reading Turing Ring is Compact
We can still remember when the WS2812 LED first came into ourconsciousness, way back in the mists of time. The timing diagrams in the datasheet-of-questionable-veracity made it sound quite tricky, …read more Continue reading WS2182s on a 6502
We’ve been seeing a lot of metaclocks lately — a digital clock whose display is formed by the sweeping hands of an array of individual analog clocks. They can look …read more Continue reading Parts Shortage Forces Creativity for this Recursive Clock of Clocks
The vast majority of us are satisfied with a standard, base ten display for representing time. Fewer of us like to be a bit old-fashioned and use a dial with …read more Continue reading A Perfect Clock For Any Hacker’s Ohm
Putting the last piece of a project together and finally finishing it up is a satisfying feeling. When the last piece of a puzzle like that is a literal puzzle, …read more Continue reading Jigsaw Puzzle Lights Up With Each Piece