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Leds & Light Hacks |
 | Fantastic Liquor Bottle Illumination using El Wire
This is a cool mod we found whereby liquor bottles are illuminated by electroluminescent wire (El wire). As you can see from the picture above, the whisky and liquor bottles look absolutely stunning. Below is a video of a bottle of Smirnoff... |
 | Voice to Text LED Message Board
Learn how to and shows you how to link an LED sign to your Google Voice account which can physically show you your voicemails through an array of LEDs. The video below walks you through a quick demonstration of how the LED message board... |
 | DIY Professional Closet Photography Studio
Even taking simple photos for items we're tying to sell on eBay can be tricky. Most of us want to have a certain degree of professionalism to our photos that say something out us. You have to have a fancy, expensive setup, right? Nope: Learn... |
 | Make a DIY Arduino Word Clock
Find out how to build your own 'Word Clock' using the power of Arduino. It's definitely unique and eye-catching clock which literally tells you the time unlike your standard digital clock.
The instructions are really easy to understand and well... |
 | Geo-Location Game "Urban Defender" using Arduino
By using an Arduino, GPS, and an accelerometer, this group put together the "Urban Defender" - A hyper-local geolocation based game which allows users to "claim" various districts of a city by throwing the ball against a wall to claim the... |
 | LED "Graffiti" using LED Throwies
With all the exceptional LED projects we've featured, it's amazing we haven't published this one yet. Take some basic LED throwies (a magnet, an LED, and a battery) and place them into a stencil. Then, place the stencil on a pole and you... |
 | DIY Halloween: When Pumpkins meet Circuitry
No honorable hacker or modder can be satisfied with a simple candle inside of a pumpkin. How boring! Us proud nerds step up and create unique, appealing, and downright stunning pumpkins complete with lasers, LEDs, robotics, motion sensors,... |
 | GhostBusters DIY Halloween Costume (Arduino Powered)
For your DIY Halloween costume this year, Learn how to make your own Ghostbusters Proton Pack equipt with red and green lasers (above). There is a full tutorial on how to build your own along with a detailed photogallery of the proton... |
 | DIY Football Hero Using the Arduino
We've seen plenty of guitar hero projects and even a laser harp hero, but now we have a football hero (Soccer for us Americans). Made for the music industry, the director pulled together a team of DIYers and football players to make the game a... |
 | DIY Blu-Ray 300mw Laser Raygun
We're plenty familiar with the famous phasers of Star Trek, set to stun or kill and now you can build your own blue laser phaser gun. Taking the shell from a toy laser gun, this modder user two blu-ray laser diodes. Although blu-ray lasers... |
