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Leds & Light Hacks |
 | Model Porsche LED Case Mod
Built in a 1/6th scale RC 1997 911 Twin Turbo Porsche, painted in color shifting car paint. After gutting the RC innards, inside I placed the motherboard of the computer. Then, I pimped it out, added cathodes underneath, LEDs, and water cooling.... |
 | Simple LED Keyboard Illumination
Tired of straining your eyes, trying to see your non-illuminated keyboard at night While most of the people who read this can type blind, for some special characters the lack of light can get irritating. Hack your keyboard so that when you tap... |
 | Solar Powered LED Projector
Here's a simple, yet awesomely creative weekend project for you. Take a cheapo solar powered garden lamp and take it apart. Solder a high brightness LED to the exposed leads, attach a transparency, and you've built an evil "graffiti" robot of... |
 | The Emergency Party Button
Don't miss out famous DIY Home Automation Tutorial.
If we had a category for awesomeness, this would be in it. Basically, it's this big red button that wirelessly controls a laser show, fog machine, LED sign, closes the curtains, dims the lights,... |
 | Make LEDs Thump to the Beat of your Music
Don't Miss: How to Display Audio As Light - LEDs to Music
This would definitely be an awesome addition to any party. Using an output from your computer or speakers, you can hook up a few LEDs, and they'll pulsate to the beat of your music. You... |
 | Make an LED Gmail Notifier
Using an Arduino, you can program any device to turn on, illuminate, spin, fly, whatever you want when you receive an email. In this tutorial, the author used an LED Cube with an embedded RBG color cycle. If you don't happen to have a glowing... |
 | Make a Tengu - An LED Face that Reacts to Music
Learn to make a Tengu, an LED Face which reacts to music of the environment around it. The tutorial will take you through the entire process from breadboard to PCB (Printed Circuit Board). Overall, it's a pretty simple project to follow and costs... |
 | Fun with Polyurethane - Transparent Molds
Mixing two types of Clear Flex 95 (liquid rubber), you can encase your USB Drive, LEDs, pet rock, circuit board, and more in a fully transparent mold. This tutorial shows you how to (as well as how not to) mix the perfect concoction of liquid... |
 | Make your own Iron Man Arc Reactor The orginal arc reactor
The DIY arc reactor
We've all drooled over the wicked gadgets in the new Iron Man film and it was only a matter of time before someone came up a DIY arc reactor. We've found two great tutorials to lead you on your quest... |
 | DIY Glowing Iron Man Mask
Yesterday, we showed you how to make your own Iron Man arc reactor which fits on your chest.� Today, we'll show you how to make your own Iron Man mask.� The eyes glow as shown in the movie. Together with the arc reactor, this is... |
