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How to Make a DIY Raised Planter Box

“Planter boxes are a classic Springtime project and we’ve always wanted to design and build one in our own style. At the time of writing this, Jaimie is 8 months pregnant with our second child…which makes gardening…difficult …

Mesmerizing Ferrofluid-Display: Silently Controlled by Electromagnets

“Disclaimer: This Instructable will not provide a straight forward way to build a big ferrofluid-display like our “Fetch”. That project is so big and expensive that anyone who want to build something similar will almost certainly have different design requirements …

Mesmerizing Magnetic Wall Clock

“Mechanical clocks have always fascinated me. The way all of the internal gears, springs, and escapements work together to result in a constant reliable timepiece has always seemed out of reach for my limited skill set. Thankfully modern electronics and …

Sand Art Display

“A Japanese zen garden built into a glass-covered picture frame. Imagine a Japanese zen garden built into a glass-covered picture frame. Below the frame are electronics and robotics, creating geometric patterns and images in the sand. The effect is enchanting …

Giant LED Board

“A DIY home-made giant 10 x 10 LED board, it’s bright, colourful and cool. I have been excited about LEDs for a long time and decided that I would create some sort of LED matrix or board. I bought …

Glixie… A glow in the dark Nixie

“A Nixie tube style display with an array of 7 LED’s. Creating a 5x7 character matrix. I really like Nixie clocks (who doesn’t?) but I wanted to create my own. And because I don’t want to tinker …

How to Build a Giant Hidden Shelf Edge Clock

“We had a large space on part of our living room wall for which we could never find the right ‘thing’ to hang on it. After trying for several years we decided to make something of our own. This turned …

Arduino Vocal Effects Box

“This Arduino-powered vocal effects box pitch shifts and distorts incoming audio signals to produce a wide variety of vocal effects. This project is my first experiment with real-time digital signal processing using Arduino. It samples an incoming microphone signal at …

Game of Life Coffee Table

“As I told you in my article “The Beauty of Math - Conway’s Game of Life Art” I was thinking it would be nice to make a piece of furniture, in this case a small coffee table, that it would …

Wooden LED Gaming Display Powered by Raspberry Pi Zero

“This project realizes a 20x10 pixel WS2812 based LED display with a size of 78x35 cm which can be easily installed in the living room to play retro games. The first version of this matrix was built in 2016 and …