A single chip drives 20 LED’s and creates amazing colors. Thanks go to Alden Hart for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18. View the PDF of this project. And then subscribe to MAKE magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
When you connect an odd number of digital logic inverters in a ring, you’ll get a Ring Oscillator – one of the simplest types. This configuration has no stable state, so the 1s and 0s chase each other around the ring, creating oscillations. Normally this isn’t easy to visualize, but Make Flickr Pool contributor ellindsey000 […]
How do you go about determining what level of resistance you need and when you should or need to use resistors?
Here’s a fun looking project by Eli Skipp of Pumping Station One. Taking a departure from the permanency of traditional soft circuit crafting, he designed this customizable fabric light bright.
Humberto writes in to point us at this handy use of the Google Voice transcription feature. In his Voice2LED Project, Josh converted a simple LED sign into a voice-activated one by connecting it up to his phone number.
Wish you had a skylight, but don’t have the ability to cut a hole in your roof? MAKE subscriber Chris did to, and wrote in to share his solution to the problem: a pv+led-based ‘fake’ skylight.
Tired of traditional, controllable musical instruments? Wish you could have a giant collection of crickets? Then you will certainly enjoy this autonomous sound installation by artist Jesse Stiles.
