How-To: Floral Pixel Brooch
Our old friend Becky Stern over at adafruit shared this tutorial for making color-changing LEDs that you can pin onto your clothes and wear as a brooch.
Our old friend Becky Stern over at adafruit shared this tutorial for making color-changing LEDs that you can pin onto your clothes and wear as a brooch.
Two of The LED Artist’s fantastic kits, the USB Blinky and Color Night Joule Thief, are now available in the Maker Shed! Both of these kits are fantastic for learning how to solder, since they exclusively use through-hole components.
This recent post at Hack a Day, about Utah-based Adaptive Computing’s 163 LED All Spark Cube, spurred an interesting comment thread about the current world record for voxel count in 3D displays using a spatial grid of LEDs. Of course, once you start talking world records, questions start coming up fast: Do monochrome systems count? What about arrangements that are not cubes? Should hobbyist builds be in a separate category from commercial products? Right now, the title holder seems to be…
Tangible Lights is a childrens’ building set made from cylindrical pieces that light up and change colors when you stack them together. Each block is embedded with an LED powered by a coin cell that can produce 160 hours of playing time, and embedded magnets make them snap together easily.
Little Big Lamp has been updated to take advantage of modern LED technology.
Build an optical guitar using a common LM386 audio amp chip.
Inspired by Mitchell Silva’s Globars, our friend Becky at Adafruit created a DIY version of his illuminated bicycle handlebars.