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Leds Hacks |
 | DIY New Year's Eve LED Ball
With the New Year rapidly approaching, learn how to build this LED New Year's ball to add some unique and superb decor to your party. It uses six high power RGB LED arrays, six LED controllers, and an Arduino.
The ball itself is bade from about... |
 | Build a Glossy Black Word Clock with Arduino
For a unique addition to your living space, the word clock is a novel new way to tell the time. The inspiration for this black and sleek clock comes the previously mentioned DIY Arduino Word Clock. Yes, it's more difficult to discern what time... |
 | Iron Man Repulsor: Blue Laser Project
The Iron Man repulsor light laser shoots a beam of crisp, blue laser light directly out from your palm. We've seen some similar Iron Man projects which recreate the rupulsor effect when Iron Man lifts his arm pulls back his hand.
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 | Stunning Illuminated POV LED Clock
Persistence of Vision (POV) flashes LEDs at certain moments as it spins, thus creating the "clock" above. The PCB blades are spun around using a PC cooling fan to creat this POV clock. The animation effect is thanks to illuminated LEDs which are... |
 | DIY Night Vision Monacle with IR LEDs
Using cheap Infrared LEDs and a cheap camera, you can build this handheld night vision monacle. Start with a viewfinder from an old camcorder, add some IR LEDs, and that's the basis of this simple project. You can also setup the night vision... |
 | Fallout 3 "Nuka-Cola" Vending Machine Replica
Nuka-Cola is the number 1 beverage in the post-nuclear world of the game Fallout 3. The Nuka-Cola vending machine is similar to steampunk, but adds a unique aspect of design. Starting with an old Vendo96 vending machine, the builded added... |
 | Illuminated LED Air Quality Check Balloons
Students from Carnegie Mellon University have taken the idea of an LED floatie further with an air quality sensor. The DIY air-sniffing balloon project can be built fairly easily and on the cheap. All it takes is a bit of circuitry skill.
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 | Incredible DIY Daft Punk Helmet Project
We've covered some downright superb daft punk projects in the past, but this helmet is one of the best so far. It took 17 long months to build and was documented fairly well in the project's build notes. The video below is a great walkthrough of... |
 | DIY Iron Man Repulsing Beam
While this Iron Man Repulsing Beam may not pack the power of the real arc-generator-powered awesomeness, it does pack quite a punch with a 330 Watt LED array capable of creating blinding flashes of ultra bright white light. Using a Xenon tube... |
 | Giant LED Matrix Controlled via the Web
What do you get when you combine five LED enthusiats, a free weekend, an Arduino and hundreds of LEDs? The LED wall, which is a massive pegboard (size - 53" x 31") fitted with a matrix of 350 LEDs. The matrix of LEDs can be controlled by... |
