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Middle of the Night Bathroom Light

“Some of us experience the need to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. If you turn on a light, you may lose your night vision. White or blue light makes you lose the sleep hormone, Melatonin, making …

Nasa Control Panel for Kids

“I built this for my sister in law that runs a day care. She saw my lager one I built almost three years ago for a company maker faire and really liked it so I built this one for her …

nerfnet: Wireless Networking over nRF24L01 2.4GHz Radios

“I recently picked up a set of nRF 2.4GHz radio transceivers. These are low-cost radios with a SPI interface that allow exchanging 32 byte packets across a radio link that can run at up to 2MBit on-air data rates …

Petalinux Build, new app definition and Dynamic-Static IP

“Build a simple image and enable a Dynamic-Static IP via power up script (put aside Paw Patrol Zuma my son decided to place on the uZed). In the following blog I will cover a use case of defining a dynamic …

Plant translator

“Using Wio terminal and sensors. New inspiration I’ve been using some of my spare time to design boards, testing garden and weareable electronics and testing things I had in my lab, in order to slowly have fun again with …

Pyramid Levitator

“Pyramid Levitation System - How it works: The Pyramid Levitator uses two Piezo ultrasonic transmitting speakers pointing towards each other. The opposing beams of 40kHz sound waves create what’s called standing waves and pressure nodes. Small items will levitate at …

Raspberry Pi Streaming Video Loopback

“As part of spiffing my video presence for SquidWrench Zoom meetings, I put a knockoff RPi V1 camera into an Az-El mount, stuck it to a Raspberry Pi, installed the latest OS Formerly Known as Raspbian, did a little setup …

Project  RoboScan

RoboScan

“Parts You’ll need these items to build RoboScan: A digital camera with a macro lens: must be compatible with libgphoto2 with image capture and preview support. A Raspberry Pi: you may choose a Pi 4 if your camera supports …

Star Wars Droid Build

“This is a down and dirty Instructable to really let this community know about a fun project that I discovered some other Star Wars Junkies were building. I have a few SCI FI items in my movie room and once …

Using Two (x2) Micro:bits to Control an RC Car

“If you have two (x2) micro:bits, have you thought of using them for remotely controlling an RC car? You can control an RC car by using one micro:bit as the transmitter and another one as the receiver. When …