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From Beeps to Toots: Reviving Pagers with Python and Mastodon
In a world that moves at the speed of a sent text, the evolution from pagers to smartphones reads like a thrilling chapter in the book of tech history. For those of us who’ve navigated this shift, pagers occupy a unique, and sometimes misunderstood, niche. Back in the day, carrying a pager, or beeper, could…
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Arduino Fake Candle
Here’s something I created out of boredom. I received a box of sensors which has the ultrasonic range sensor. I don’t have the code anymore but it could easily be recreated.
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readerboard
I was standing in line at the post office and they had one of those small LED message boards. It inspired me to create one of my own. What does this do? It displays the date and time. It will tell you the current weather. It will tell you the weather forecast. It will warn…
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Panel meter clock made from a Raspberry Pi
I know this has been done before with MSP430, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi but I thought I would make one too. The one thing I wanted to do differently with mine is have a sweep second hand instead of a step second hand. Parts List:Raspberry Pi Zero WH3V Panel MetersAdafruit 16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Driver Approach:The…
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Channel 3
Channel 3 is a recreation of the teletext service found on US cable systems in the 80s and 90s Code from probnot’s wpg-weatherchan and revised to work with US based weather.https://github.com/probnot/wpg-weatherchan Some period appropriate music from a production music site is added to complete the experience. It pulls news from RSS feed, weather from API,…
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Annoy Me! (offline)
I snagged a Ethernet shield for $4.00 from Radio Shack and wanted to use it right away. I found some tutorials online to control various devices and decided, just for fun, to make a project that will annoy the heck out of me. Head over to (offline) and see that you can control very bright…
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Binary clock using Arduino, DS3231 real time clock, and WS2811 Addressable LEDs
I started working on a binary clock project with the Arduino. I followed other tutorials but encountered two issues: One, the binary clock ran about 37 seconds fast because the lack of a RTCTwo, I couldn’t include a RTC because the LEDs took up all the available pins. I started working on a new binary…
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LED lighting effect using an Arduino and LEDs
Sorry for the poor video quality. Because of the flash rate and the way a CMOS senor works, it cannot record the true effect. This lightning effect uses addressable LEDs. The code generates a random number of flashes, a random brightness level for each flash, a random delay between flashes, and a random delay between…
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Arduino Strobe Light Effect with Proximity Sensor
In December, a friend approached me and asked if I could create a visual effect for him. The requirements are to flash a strobe light, activate only when someone is in front of the effect for a couple of seconds, and wait for the person to walk away before it can be activated again.
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Arduino WS2811 Pixel LED Christmas Tree Lights
I made some neat Christmas tree lights using an Arduino and WS2811 pixel LEDs. Random LEDs will twinkle white. After the LED flashes, it is set with either red, green, or blue until it is twinkled again. Check out the code after the break.
