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A wind turbine remote control is born
Apr 4th
Taking a break from revision this evening to play with Arduino for a while, all in preparation for Blowing Nowhere. Blowing Nowhere is the new name for our remote-controlled wind turbine POV project, that we're taking to the Nowhere festival. In a nutshell, we're making a 1.5m diameter wind turbine, that will power arrays of LEDs on ...
SuperHappyDevClub
Feb 28th
An excellent evening spent tonight with the SuperHappyDevClub guys - the local Cambridge hackspace. Going along (cookies at the ready) gave me the impetus I needed to get started on a phenomena I've wanted to play with for a very long time - persistence of vision, or POV. Armed with my Arduino microcontroller and ten ...
Brainwave Goggles
Dec 30th
Synopsis: A pair of goggles, with LED bulbs mounted on the inside of the lenses, pointing at your closed eyelids. The LEDs are controlled by a micro-controller to flash in a sequence of specifically defined frequencies, to take the user from full-consciousness, down into deep sleep and back to consciousness again in 15 minutes. When ...
LED Circus Equipment
Dec 23rd
Synopsis: Creation of two LED 'glowstaffs': long clear hand-held tubes housing 40 multicolour LEDs. Using a micro-controller and a USB connection, it is possible to program a sequence of colours into the staff, to change during spinning. This was a great project for me - rekindling my old love of staff spinning, and fuelling my new ...
The Big Tea’se Fire Sculptures
Dec 5th
Creation and programming of an Arduino micro-controller circuit, to command 4 propane flame-effects via power transistors and solenoids. Automatic firing sequences created and manual control via a user-interface of pressable antique cutlery.