This instructable will guide you to glow an LED using a touch sensor which means that the LED will glow when you touch on the probe of the sensor. The project uses the Mediatek linkit one connected to a touch sensor and an LED. As soon a touch is detected, the output goes high which […]
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How to make a shark puppet with blinking LED lights for its eyes! The two LED lights are going to turn on when the shark’s mouth is closed the first time, after the first time the lights come on, the LEDs are going to blink when the mouth is closed. Step 1: Preparation Things you
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First, you need to know that a lightstrip is a bunch of LEDs daisychained together. The three contacts are +5v, GND and DI (data in, AKA DIN). If you are using the same lightstrip, you can solder just 3 wires… Now on to building Step 1: Tinning Your Contacts Before soldering anything, you need to
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The ESP8266-01 only has a limited number of I/O pins (only 4). Fortunately these pins can be used for I2C communication, allowing us to add a hoist of other chips.I wanted to add an RTC to the ESP8266-01 and for testing purposes I did not want to always have to go to an ESP8266 generated
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What is Intel® Quark™ microcontroller D2000? The Intel® Quark™ microcontroller D2000, is a low power, battery-operated, 32-bit microcontroller with a more robust instruction set than other entry-level microcontrollers. The first x86-based Intel® Quark™ microcontroller, Intel® Quark™ microcontroller D2000 also increases input/output options over other entry-level microcontrollers. Within its small footprint, the Intel® Quark™ microcontroller D2000
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Many of you have been wondered by seeing the LCD Display at various places and would have given a little thought about how the things work behind such a real time display. Let’s clear such confusions and create a 6*8 LED display approximately similar to LCD display. There might be some variations in LCD display
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SmartLights is a simple way to automate your home lighting. Unlike Phillips Hue and other commercial devices, SmartLights is economical and easily customisable . The project requires some technical skill, but they are fairly simple and can be easily followed. Some of the Features of SmartLights — Alarms – you can set alarms and the lights
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Another basic Arduino project is waiting for you to build! This exciting project will allow you to create an awesome L.E.D Music Visualizer using few components such as a Microphone module, resistors, L.E.Ds, and Arduino. This project is perfect for those who really loves music. Everybody loves music (including me) so that’s why I made one for my own entertainment
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Particle Photon is a tiny micro controller, just about the size of an arduino nano. But the photon is designed for easy IoT prototyping, it supports OTA updates to its firmware. So all we have to do is get it connected to the internet and we could do all the programming wireless, the photon uses a
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Create your own Interactive LED Beer Pong Table! This instructable will guide you through all of the steps to in order to create a one-of-a-kind beer pong table complete with cup detecting RGB pods, automatic ball washers, a 32×12 ping pong ball LED grid, side LED rings for spectators and an RF interface to communicate
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