In my last post I looked at using a servo motor with an Arduino and a couple of LED lights to indicate when it would rotate clockwise vs. counter-clockwise. In that post we were using a simple servo motor that had 180 degrees of rotation. We were using the write()…
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I was playing around today with my Arduino, running the tutorial for controlling a servo motor. I decided to make it a little more interesting by adding a couple of LEDs. The tutorial uses PWM (pulse width modulation) to control the rotation of the servo motor. It starts at the…
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I tried my hand at soldering a headphones jack recently and had difficulty with the soldering part of the process. Actually, it was only soldering so I had trouble with the ENTIRE process. It was only after I had made a rather horrendous connection that I realized I had not…
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If you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve either played with Legos or you’ve watched your children play with them. In my case, both are true. What’s not to love about taking a box of parts and creating something new and exciting? Something that nobody in the world has ever…
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My daughter asked me yesterday to pierce the ears of her “My Little Pony”. Her ears were pierced about three months ago and I guess she had earrings on her mind. My first response was something like “Sorry honey but we don’t have earrings for your pony.” She immediately offered…
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We have two sets of Sylvania headphones that we purchased for a trip to Belarus to visit my wife’s family. They were intended for the kids to watch their DVD player while on the plane. The headphones worked fine but were not enough by a long shot. By the time…
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One of the first sites I found when becoming interested in electronics, robotics, and otherwise “making” things was www.ladyada.net, the website/blog of Limor Fried, otherwise known as Lady Ada. She has a number of projects that she has designed and developed into kits, the Minty Boost being one of them.…
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I wanted to make something useful that used LEDs without having to program an Arduino or anything like that. The idea I came up with was to add LEDs to artificial flowers and make it decorative by putting them in a clear vase filled with clear/opaque glass marbles. The addition…
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