A Nifty Tool For Counting Neopixels
Picture it. You’ve got a big roll of NeoPixels, but you have no idea how many are actually on the tape. Or you need to count how many WS2812B LEDs …read more Continue reading A Nifty Tool For Counting Neopixels
Category Archives: Neopixels
Math You Can Wear: Fibonacci Spiral LED Badge
Fibonacci numbers are seen in the natural structures of various plants, such as the florets in sunflower heads, areoles on cacti stems, and scales in pine cones. [HackerBox] has developed …read more Continue reading Math You Can Wear: Fibonacci Spiral LED Badge
Be The Star Of The Evening With This Light Up Prom Dress
[Kellechu] went full parent beast mode by creating a prom dress for her daughter. This incredible build is a tour-de-force of DIY crafting, combining sewing, electronics, 3D printing and programming. …read more Continue reading Be The Star Of The Evening With This Light Up Prom Dress
Tree of Life Branches Out with a Twist
In the middle of 2020, [charlie] challenged himself to conceive of and finish one project every month for the next twelve. Here we are a year later with [charlie]’s last …read more Continue reading Tree of Life Branches Out with a Twist
One Giant Button to Mute Them All
The second round of this year’s Hackaday Prize is coming to a close, and we asked you to come up with ways of refreshing work-from-home life. Well here’s one we …read more Continue reading One Giant Button to Mute Them All
Linear Pong Loses a Dimension but Remains Challenging
When Pong hit the scene in the early 70s, there was something about the simplicity of the 2D monochrome tennis game that made it engaging enough that enthusiastic proto-gamers shorted-out machines by stuffing their coin boxes to overflowing. But even …read more
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Smart Power Delivery For Long LED Strips
Addressable LED strips, most commonly using the WS2812B, have revolutionized the pursuit of the glowiest and flashiest of builds. No longer does a maker have to compromise on full RGB color or number of LEDs due to the limitations of their chosen microcontroller, or fuss around with multiplexing schemes. However, …read more
Weather Note Tells You What You Need To Know, And No More
Smartphones are portals to an overwhelming torrent of information. Yes, they’re a great way to find out the time, your bus schedule, and the weather, but they’re also full of buzzers and bells going off every three minutes to remind you that your uncle has reposted a photo of the …read more
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Electronic Connect Four Has No Pieces to Lose
Recreating classic games in software is a great way to get better at coding or learn to code in the first place. If you do it in hardware though, you’ll gain a lot more than coding skills. Just ask [Kelly] and [Jack] did, when they built this Arduino-based electronic Connect …read more
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The Three Shell Mystery Finally Solved!
While we certainly acknowledge the valuable contributions of the open hardware community that help to mitigate the coronavirus crisis, we are also looking forward to the days when people start going back to building other things than 3D-printed face shields, pandemic trackers, and automatic soap dispensers. However, this handwash timer …read more