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Custom Brake Light Controller Expands your Trailer’s Capabilities
Here’s an interesting technical problem of which I wasn’t really aware. Those of you that regularly tow a trailer, though are probably quite familiar with this, the issue of braking and trying to use...
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Control a VGA Monitor with Your Arduino
Arduino boards are great for making lights blink or controlling motors, but if you want to show output from it on a monitor, this task can be tricky. To make things less tricky, the NovaVGA Arduino...
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Expand Raspberry Pi IO Capabilities with the DAAC-Hat
The Raspberry Pi computer has certainly been a huge step in the maker/hacker/hobby electronics world with some very impressive capabilities. One thing it doesn’t have, however, is a way to directly...
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Add Bluetooth Audio and USB power to Your Car with This Kit
Your phone, more than likely, can transmit audio over Bluetooth. Many cars can receive these types of signals, but some can’t. You could use something that goes into your line-in jack[1] that has to...
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Ready-Made Guts for Your Next Animatronic Head
If you’d like to build an animatronic head — and hey, who doesn’t? — you could start from scratch, figuring out how to move the eyes and mouth. Or you could simply buy the internals from Commonwealth...
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USB Breakout Boards and Power Supplies
Micro USB to 3.3V and 5V by Arthurguy.Co.Uk linked below. When you’re making an electronics project, you need power for it. In some cases, this can just mean attaching a mini USB plug to your...
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Vertically Mounted Arduino-Compatible PCB
So you’d like to make a project involving a microcontroller. Many of us, myself included, would probably consider an Arduino of some type. Attach it to your project’s breadboard and be done with it....
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Nano Dot Matrix Display is Very, Very Small
It’s said in engineering — and it probably applies elsewhere — that you can get something with two out of these three things: fast, cheap, or good. Though I’ll have to assume that you can get one of...
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“Exotic” USB Breakouts on Tindie
miniPCIe breakout As outlined in a previous post, if you just need signal and voltage broken out from a USB connection, there are several options available here on Tindie. On the other hand, there are...
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AllPixel Universal LED Controller
If you’re working on a project that requires RGB LEDs, you may immediately think of NeoPixels from Adafruit — a flashy name for products using WS2812 parts. Although they certainly work well, and are...
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Very Accurate Incubator Controller with Bluetooth App
For most of us, the only temperature we really care about is how hot the environment is around us. For better or worse, this means spending much of our time inside temperature controlled bubbles known...
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Indoor Location with Localino
If you’d like to know where you are in the outside world, then a GPS receiver is probably what you think of, and likely a good choice. On the other hand, these receivers generally don’t work as...
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Shotgun Resistant Drone Frame
If you fly quadcopters—or what are commonly, but perhaps somewhat incorrectly—referred to as “drones,” there’s an extemely good chance you’ve also crashed quadcopters. Personally, I’ve crashed tiny...
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Enhance Rotational Control with the Mocodor
So you have a robotics application where you need a motor that can continuously rotate. One good option that still allows you some speed control is to modify a conventional servo into what’s commonly...
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Beautiful “Frosty” LED Wall Clock
As a consumer, you have many choices for what to put on your wall. You could go with a poster, painting, or college diploma, but if you want something that shows off your discerning taste to the wold,...
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NeoPix Arcade Kit
The Circuit Playground from Adafruit is certainly an interesting little board. It comes in the shape of a disk, can be programmed with the Arduino IDE. In addition to other features, it can produce...
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SIS-2 Universal Remote Receiver
When you think of a “universal remote,” you generally picture an infrared (IR) emitter that can be setup to control your TV, AV receiver, and any other number of devices that work using IR signals. On...
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Raspberry Pi Display Cabinet
According to Raspberry Pi’s description of their official touchscreen, it “gives users the ability to create all-in-one, integrated projects such as tablets, infotainment systems and embedded...
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Get Notifications About Blog Activity via the IoT WordPress Light
So you have a website that’s popular enough to receive comments, pingbacks, or other interesting interactions, but you’d rather not check your site (or emails) compulsively. If that sounds like you,...
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An Awesome Looking V-Tail Multicopter Platform
If a normal quadcopter looks cool, one with a V-Tail configuration is even better. Or as this quadcopter’s Tindie listing puts it, the “V-Tail design increases yaw authority (and looks awesome).” Yaw,...
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