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Leds & Light Hacks |
 | Website Visitor Blinker
I already wrote my first Arduino program. It's really simple but fun :) What it does is that every time somebody visits my website, a LED light blinks once in my room, and I get a warm feeling of a visitor ;) You can test it by opening a new... |
 | DIY Led Light Door Project
Learn how to use a router tool and design custom LED Light glass art. Make a door with a glowing image hand etched into the... |
 | Valentines Fiber Optic LED Rose Project
Using a few LEDs and fiber optics, I made this dead sexy, illuminated fiber optic rose. A downright awesome Valentines Day present. She'll love it!
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 | Make a USB Color Changing Light
Everybody needs a little color in their life! This color changer mixes light from high-power LEDs to create more than 16 million colors. A smooth auto-fader cycles the colors, or you can hook it up to a USB port and control it from your computer. A... |
 | LED Floaties - Illuminated Balloon Decor
Take an LED, strap a battery to it, shove it into a balloon, fill it with helium, and there you have it - a downright awesome decoration for any party. Then, when the party is over (and you don't mind sparing a few LEDs and batteries) let them fly... |
 | Build Your Own PC Ambient Light: "Ambilight"
Some of the best do it yourself projects are the ones that give you the functionality of an expensive commercial product, on the cheap. Such is the case with the MoMoLight "Movie Mood Light" Ambilight Mod, which lets you endow your laptop or PC... |
 | How to: Draw With Light
Using a slow shutter speed, you can actually draw using light, allowing you to see your creations come to life. Learn to create colored LED... |
 | Multiple Layer Engraving and LED Animation Metku Mods sent us their Multiple Layer Engraving tutorial. It demonstrates how to use several layers of engraved acrylic, plus a few LEDs and timers to create the awesome effect shown in the video above. Basically, one layer has "intel" engraved... |
 | Make a Darth Maul Light Saber
Anyone that has seen Star Wars knows Darth Maul. He was different, he had a light saber that had a blade on each end. He didn't say much but you knew he was trouble. With this guide you too can be the evil, silent, double sabered one.
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 | RGB Ambilight LED Controller
This is my homemade RGB LED controller. It is connected to the PC which lets me either change the color by hand, or the color changes to the music, or its like ambilight, the LEDs have the main color of my screen. Unfortunately the colors are not... |
