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Leds & Light Hacks |
 | DIY Fiber Optic Fabric using RGB LEDs
By weaving fiber optic strands as if they were yarn, this team of DIYers created a fiber optic "fabric" of sorts which features a few dozen RGB LEDs and reacts to the outside world via Twitter. Currently, they're raising funds to launch a company... |
 | Incredible Fallout 3 Replica Plasma Rifle
We've seen our fair share of replica guns from Portal, District 9, you name it. This one, however, is the best we've seen thus far. The detail and creativeness of the author is absolutely stunning on this A3-21 Plasma Rifle from Fallout 3. ... |
 | Color Changing EL Wire Hour Glass
This EL wire (electroluminescent) hour glass is actually a fairly simple build. It's built around a three foot long tube with two wooden rounds attached at either end. Then, a motor is added to one end to spin the EL wire around the tube to... |
 | 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... |
 | Build Your Own Multi-Touch Surface
We've covered a fair amount of multitouch projects by now, and here's another great method of building your own. It's actually far more simple than you'd think as we showed in our 5 minute, dirt cheap multitouch example a few years back. Far... |
 | Custom Magic 8 Ball features internal OLED Screen
Remember those Magic 8 balls growing up and how the stupid bubbles and purple liquid always got in the way of reading the prediciton? With a bit of electronic modding, it display custom messages by replacing the normal message die with an OLED... |
 | DIY Epic Workstation using simple Ambient Lighting
If our previous look at the absolutely incredible Mac-tacular workstation didn't inspire you, this will. As you can see in the photos above and below, this DIY audio mixer built a fantastic workstation filled with ambient lighting and custom... |
