How to Create an Animatronic Dragon Model
ROOAAARR!! Before you learn how to train your dragon, you need to first obtain a dragon, and there’s no better way than to make it yourself! This guide will explain the steps I took to create a scale...
View ArticleArduino Text I/O for Real World Applications
Quick Start This tutorial will take you through the steps you can use to successfully process Real World text I/OYou should avoid using any Serial methods in your loop() code and any code it calls....
View ArticleMake a Digital Photo Album by ESP32
Last week I made an electronic photo album that I could place on my work desk to show some photos. I can take a look at relaxing when I’m tired at work. Previously I have implemented the display of...
View ArticleGandalf’s Magic Staff
Who wouldn’t want Gandalf’s Magic Wizard Staff? Turns out Gandalf had various staffs and either lost, broke or upgraded them frequently! This provides us with multiple staff designs and there are...
View ArticleArduino Eye Strain Alarm
With the COVID quarantine moving life online, I now spend many hours looking at my computer screen. Whether I’m doing school virtually, connecting with friends and family, or working on projects, all...
View ArticleArduino Controlled Catapult
I recently had the idea to create a catapult, But not just any kind of catapult, an electronic catapult! I wanted something I could just sit it down hit some buttons and watch it do its thing without...
View ArticleInverter Aurora ABB (Power One) Web Monitor (WIM) With Esp8266
Autonomous centraline with an esp8266 that grab and store data from inverter and show charts and various data of production and can send notification email if there are some problems. It is a quite...
View ArticleWater Surface Lamp
This Instructable will show you how to make an atmosphere lamp that lights up just like making little waves on the water surface. It can be placed on your table, shelf, or bedside to create a...
View ArticleLiving Pixels – Imagine Technology Has Life
Seeing smart home products being more common in our lives, I’ve started to think about the relationship between people and these products. If one day, smart home products become an indispensable part...
View Article14band Graphical Equalizer
Here comes a simple Graphic Equalizer showing 14 audio bands from 60Hz up to 16kHz. It consist of a PCB based on MSGEQ7 and ESP dev board. Since a MSGEQ7 chip recognizes 7 bands only and an ESP dev...
View ArticleNeoPixel Ancient Oil Lamp
In this Instructable, we will describe how to turn a “retro” oil lamp into a NeoPixels based rechargeable lamp with colorful light effects. Supplies Arduino nano 12 bits NeoPixel ring Micro USB 5V 1A...
View ArticleCustomizable Keypad Matrix (Use It As Shortcuts for PC)
The of the shelf Keypad Matrix is great but they only come in numeric or alphanumeric types. If you want to make a Keypad Matrix whose keys are designed for your needs then this is the Instructable for...
View ArticleHalloween Animated Knights
About a week or so after Halloween last year (pre-COVID), I happened to be in Home Depot and back in a far corner bin were several Halloween items very heavily discounted. They were just trying to get...
View ArticleHalloween Pop-Up Prop
This was my first animated Halloween prop. I found this witch at the local hardware store. It was meant to hang up by a cord and if someone came close to it, an infrared sensor would trigger the prop....
View ArticleGRBL Based Coil Winder From Water Pipe
When I was working on the Toy Magnetic Levitation project with a solenoid coil, I thought to myself, why didn’t I make a coil winder. So I took my times to build a simple coil winder based on GRBL...
View ArticleLow Cost, Easy to Build and Use: Arduino Die Toss Simulator
In addition to gambling, dice (die – singular) are used in many board games, e.g., Backgammon, Monopoly, Yahtzee, Liar’s Dice, Dungeons & Dragons, Trouble, etc. Common dice are usually white with...
View Article“12 Thumbs” R/C LEGO Dragster
Impressed by these two LEGO® Dragster sets, a 250 pieces LEGO®TECHNIC Dragster 8847 (released in 1983) and a 391 pieces Top Fuel Racing 5533 (released in 1999). These two Dragsters inspired me to build...
View ArticleCheapest Plug & Play Room Automation Setup
Their are many people who are struggling to make projects that are needed for their daily needs. One of the major example is none other than room automation. Even though many of the room automation...
View ArticleIOS App for Adafruit Feather NRF52832
The Adafruit Feather nRF52832 has a BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) functionality that has a lot of potential to be used in many different projects. In this Instructable, I will be stepping through a...
View ArticleThe Next-Gen Deck
By Marcel’s Workshop I spend a lot of time on Genealogy with subscriptions to many services.To make it efficient I copy, paste and refresh pages often from one database to another.I use 3 monitors so I...
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