Year: 2008

LED hard drive clock

Ian Smith created this supremely cool clock from an old hard drive, some tri-color LEDs and a PIC microcontroller. It works using a simple persistence of vision technique. The disk platter has a narrow slit cut in it and the LEDs are all positioned behind the spinning platter, causing light to shine out through the […]

Introducing the latest Arduino board

Introducing the latest Arduino board

The latest Arduino in the family is the Arduino Duemilanove (which means “2009”) and includes 14 digital input/output pins of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs, 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal, USB connection, power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. The main difference between this and the last version, […]