Category Archives: Microcontrollers

Laser cut wall lamp with ws2812b and arduino nano

Posted on October 28, 2015

5.6mm plywood cut using a 40w laser cutter. The ws2812b led strip is hooked up an an arduino nano using the neopixel library from adafruit : https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPixel . The program running in the video is one of the example sketches … Continue reading →

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Matchbox Car v2 (fail)

Posted on October 6, 2015

PCB and schematic: Pictures of the built board: This PCB is pretty rough around the edges, I made it a few weeks ago with the intention of etching it at home but then decided to give OSHpark a go just … Continue reading →

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Matchbox Car v1

Posted on August 10, 2015

This build consists of a tiny DC motors ripped from a pair of 9g servos, a h-bridge motor controller, an el-cheapo 8 bit pic and a 100mAh 3.7V LiPo battery. Circuit : (click schematic for pdf) Code: What’s coming next … Continue reading →

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sure electronics LED dot matrix HT1632c Energia example

Posted on May 27, 2015

This LED array has been sitting in my room for months now so I decided to hook it up to an msp430g2553 and get it displaying stuff. I bought it from ebay from a chinese supplier called sure electronics. The … Continue reading →

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