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The Make Contest

Hello and welcome to my entry for MAKE’s Raspberry Pi Design Contest! I’ve spent the past week working hard on building a ceiling lamp with a ring of LED’s below it. I call it the Cloud Lamp, and...

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The Ambilight-Clone

It’s not just consumers that have to keep up with the Joneses, DIY’ers can succumb to envy, too. It seems like everyone is building those awesome Ambilight clones! Here’s mine :) * For anyone wondering...

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An ATTiny85 Home Automation IR Device

Problem: You’ve bought yourself a nice home-automation solution like MicasaVerde or WeMo, but supplying power to your TV only powers it up and puts it in suspend mode. Solution: Some TV’s are smart...

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A safer but still cool water-scarecrow

Problem Racoons are a recurring theme now, on this blog. However, this time it’s more more sinister. They’re not knocking over garbage, they’re defecating in a pool. It was really gross. The last time...

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The Trackball Mouse Trap

Problem: I’m a left handed trackball user, but I’d like a mouse wheel and middle button. The cool ones are all right handed. I’ve been using the Logitech Trackman model for probably 15 years or more....

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The Meeting Light

My work schedule can get pretty crazy! Really crazy… I thought it might be cool to come up with a way to communicate to that to folks I work with. I built a little wifi connected RGB LED that will...

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OpenJSCAD radial wire organizers

STL Files Clip Example 2Clip Example 1 Color: Render: flat smooth wire Capture: image Download STL OpenJSCAD is a programmatic way of creating 3D objects with two advantages over my preferred method,...

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A Window drawing Chalk-Bot

Makelangelo is a polar-graph based drawing device that use flat CNC-cut construction techniques to pull a gondola-like pen holder around a surface to draw pictures. Designing my own version was a fun...

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Four button, bluetooth, Remote mobile phone control

I devised, designed and built a gadget that you can clip to your pocket, a bag, or a jacket that lets you push a few buttons to control your mobile phone, as well as the mobile software/app to...

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Mousetrap v2.0

STL Files mousetrap2-3 Color: Render: flat smooth wire Capture: image Download STL A couple years ago I built a stand for my trackball mouse to add a scroll-wheel and middle-mouse button. It was...

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The auto-watering garden

*please note the update at the bottom of this story if you plan to make your own garden. I thought that growing your own vegetables might be a fun way to get fresh veggies. Come to find out though,...

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The IR Shield

The primary component of my media center is an HTPC with boxee on it. One neat feature of boxee is that you can use a web or android based remote to control it, which I do. The problem though, is that...

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