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Make an automatic plant light using ATTiny26 Microcontroller

This light helps your plants grow. I got the idea from the Garduino, but nothing is taken from it. The schematic and the program are mine. This plant light gives your plants 4 additional hours of light per day. When it gets dark, it turns on and after 4 hours of darkness, the light turns

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Ghetto Pixels – Building an open source BlinkM Using ATTiny45 Microcontroller

Unless you’ve been living under a digital rock for the last few years, or just simply aren’t interested in flashing lights, you’ll already know about the awesomeness that is the BlinkM from ThingM. It’s a very small PCB featuring a high power LED that responds very easily and cleanly to commands you give it. Devices like BlinkM’s

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Using ATMega328 Microcontroller Custom Tron Disc Mod

In this Instructable, I cover modding the store-bought Deluxe Identity Disc to an upgraded version with 64 leds, controlled by an AVR MCU. The upgraded version is costume-ready and would be an excellent addition to your Tron costume – it’ll also look great on your desk/dresser/etc. My 7 year old daughter watched Tron:Legacy with me

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Starry Ceiling for Kids Bedroom Using AT90S8538 microcontroller

When my little girl was born I wanted to make her a special night light for in her room. I made her a ceiling light with twinkling stars. It is made up of a piece of custom wood with 100 LEDs mounted in it. An AVR AT90S8538 micro controller runs a bascom program that produces

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