Over the past two years I've been working on my largest and most complicated electronics project yet. My work on the project has ebbed and flowed, but it's mostly finished. So I thought I'd start writing up some notes on it.
The initial inspiration was seeing Jeff Faust's Arduino controlled …
Here are a couple of the other ATtiny projects I've worked on. Only now just writing them up. They are both pretty simple.
The first was an Iron Man style "ARC reactor" (the circle light in his chest) that I made to go with my son's (shop bought) Iron Man …
After acquiring some aida and a set of fairly cheap embroidery silks, I decided to try my hand at cross-stitch. As with a lot of craft related activities cross-stitch and embroidery are having a resurgence. The fact that cross-stitch is essentially the first form of pixel-art makes it perfect for …
In what is threatening to become a tradition, I made a Christmas ornament again this year. Last year I just made simple tree ornaments using sculpey and fimo.
This year things got a bit more involved, as I decided to make a musical model of the Robot Santa from Futurama …
Back in 2006 the new Battlestar Galactica series was going strong (and was still rather good). So it was almost inevitable (in hindsight) that someone would make a Cylon pumpkin for Halloween. That pumpkin was featured in a Halloween copy of Make magazine I bought and then held on to …
About a year ago I started on a project to make a temperature controlled nightlight. I was inspired by seeing these lovely LED lamps styled as mushrooms growing out of pieces of wood. Those mushrooms were made out of glass, which was somewhat beyond my skills. However I then saw …
As mentioned in the previous post about my arduino doorbell I wanted to get the doorbell and my Chumby talking.
As the Chumby runs Linux, is on the network and is able to run a recent version of Python (2.6) it seemed like it would be pretty easy to …
After a first couple of small Arduino projects I felt the need to make something a bit more useful and permanent.
I had seen Roo Reynolds talking about hacking his doorbell to get it onto Twitter and as our doorbell is a bit rubbish I thought this seemed like a …