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Etch a Selfie

“Motivation I’m planning to build my own home automation system with an ESP32 as the main microprocessor. So I was looking for a fun project to test it’s capabilities and to get to know it’s good and …

Smart Battery Charger Multiplexer with Smart Display

“Use a smart battery charger on up to 6 batteries - wave your hand to turn display on and check charging. Living in the North East if you have an older car or a boat, or lawn mower or other vehicle …

Motion Control Slider for Time Lapse Rail

“This instructable explains how to motorize a time lapse rail using a step motor driven by an Arduino. We will mainly focus on the Motion Controller that drives the step motor assuming you already have a rail you want to …

3D printed mower build

“Sit back, relax and let the robot do the work. At the same time the grass becomes thick and lush due to the constant mowing. No more grass cuttings - sounds to good to be true….. and by the way you …

DIY Turntable With Custom Control

“Hello, In this instruction, I will show you how I created a fully automated rotating platform from an IKEA Lazy Susan Kitchen Turntable. My goal was to build a device which can be controlled manually (with buttons), or automatically (by …

Variable Power Supply (Buck Converter)

“A power supply is an essential device when you are working with electronics. If you want to know how much power your circuit is consuming, you will need to take voltage and current measurements and then multiply them to get …

DIY Auto-Start Rechargeable Aquarium Air Pump

“Battery powered Aquarium Air Pumps are common and can be easily bought from Local Fish Stores. But the downside to such pumps are that you need to replace the batteries each time they run out, or recharge the batteries with …

Arduino-Based Shower Radio

“I have a music in my shower cabin again! Story Few years ago I bought a chinese shower cabin which has installed the TR028 control system with radio. Unfortunately one nice day I found this system competely dead. Nobody could …

LED Eclipse With Touch Sensors and MIDI

“The LED eclipse is an interactive instrument with LEDs, capacitive touch sensors, and a MIDI output all controlled with an Arduino Uno. You can program the device in many different ways. Across all the applications, the idea is pretty much …

Calibrating My Servos

“All my servos are a little bit different to each other - I’ve built a rig to measure what PWM values turn my servos to a specific angle. In a previous post on Hackster, I wrote about how I’ve …