Author: xbdvj

This hulking monument to illumination is [DJJules’s] 6-foot-long ultimate Larson Scanner. If you’re scratching your head in confusion, the Larson Scanner is the ever-popular scrolling LEDs seen on KITT (the car) from Knight Rider as well as on Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978), named after the creator of the series. [DJJules’s] iteration consists of sixteen 10W LEDs, each […]

From the great minds behind the NodeMCU Lua interpreter for the ESP8266 comes a proper dev board for the WiFi platform of 2015. They are calling it, the NodeMCU-devkit, and it’s a reasonable, cheap, and breadboardable breakout board for the ESP8266. The version of ESP8266 used in this project is the ESP-12, the newer, fancier […]

For some reason this project makes us think of the Light Cycles in Tron. You know, the bike forms around the rider after they grab onto the wand that makes up its controls? certainly you’re not going to see a car form out of thin air, but this driving controller let you grab onto nothing to […]

[Mostafa] was a bit tired as well as had a damaged DVD player sitting around, so he made a decision to take it apart to see what made the machine’s LCD panel tick. when he popped it open, he found it wasn’t an LCD panel at all, it was a VFD. The seven section screen […]

As if slinging around 40 watts of potentially tattoo-removing or retina-singeing laser beams wasn’t anxiety-inducing enough, now comes a new, scary acronym – LCAGs, or “laser-generated airborne contaminants.” With something that scary floating around your shop, it might be a good idea to build a souped-up laser cutter exhaust fan to save your lungs. We […]

spend enough time taking a look at home automation setups, and you’ll rapidly find there are two competing philosophies. The first wants to put an Arduino on every light socket, with everything connected by low-cost eBay radio modules. The second home automation viewpoint requires astonishingly expensive hardware to speak with other expensive modules. The Arduino […]