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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOpenJSCAD 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,...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleFour 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...
View ArticleMousetrap 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleThe 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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