[Kalle Hyvönen] just finished building his own aquarium lights. He used four powerful soft-white LEDs, mounting them on a pair of heat sinks to keep things cool. Now he could have just connected them ...

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Anyone interested in creating interactive objects can “play” with Arduino! Described ...

This Arduino lights dimmer project is based on Doug Hitchcock’s comment: “I need to have a lamp dimmer that can “cascade” from one lamp to the next (up to 4 lamps). Basically, when you close a switch, ...

I had this idea of building my own bicycle lighting system totally personalized, the lights would have the exact lighting pattern I wanted and the shape I decide. That's why I started to build this ...

With the holiday season fast approaching it might be time to invest in a new set of fairy lights to decorate your home or office. But why settle for boring off-the-shelf lights when you could be using ...

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. An LED ornament for the Christmas tree can be built in any manner of simple, easy implementations. You certainly don’t need an ...

This week I will outline a project for Halloween that uses the Arduino and a light to create a glowing effect inside a pumpkin. I use artificial pumpkins for projects like this so I can reuse them in ...

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Riding a bicycle at night is a bit dangerous, but electronics blogger Jenna DeBoisblanc shows off how to build a system that includes turn signals, a strobe light, speedometer, and brake lights to ...

It is a simple cheap development system, including microcontroller hardware, for developing processor-based control systems. I have never used such a thing, for my imagination ends at BASIC and ...