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Category Archives: Electronics
Quadrupedal Robot Dog by Lingkang Zhan
A small quadrupedal robot dog. Lingkang Zhang’s blog has excellent documentation (mainly videos) describing different features of the [...]
Splitflap by Scott Bezek
This is a cool, step-by-step walkthrough on how to build and create your own Split flap display. These displays are tileable (i.e. can be st [...]
LEET Modular Synth
LEET is Johan Von Konow’s modular affordable synth you can build yourself. It consists of several MIDI devices that can be used together o [...]
Circuito.io
www.circuito.io is a useful prototyping tool for electronic schematics. Use this to get an idea of how you might wire up your projects. [...]
ESP32-CAM QR Code Scanner
This project combines two separate projects to get a system that acts as a WiFi Access point and web server to display QR codes scanned with [...]
Air-Switch Laser Cutting project
I had to make a box to hold a switch we were installing on to the laser cutter that would turn the compressed air on and off. So it seemed a [...]
Creating custom monochrome graphics for micro-controller screens
Arduino code Converting images into byte arrays for mono-colour screens with microcontrollers. Best suited for static splash screens or basi [...]
Kinetic Light Art
I got to extend my skills by building some flyByWire artworks for an Art Festival in Queenstown. To create my first Kinetic Art work I had t [...]
Rear computer Light Display Project
This project was started to address the unattractive back of the PC in the tech office that is one of the first sights to greet guests to th [...]
E-Bike Lighting system WIP
Work in progress! This is a long term project of mine for my E-Bike a lighting system with headlight, taillight, indicators, alert system/ho [...]
Electronics Basics
This brief tutorial gives some tips for working with electronic circuits and covers some common issues beginners can have. [...]
Solar powered WiFi weather station with Google sheets upload
This project uses spare solar panels and an ESP-01 DHT11 module to gather weather data and upload it to a google spreadsheet. [...]
Creating professional pinout diagrams
This is a great tutorial from Adafruit showing how to create professional pinout/wiring diagrams with free vector software Inkscape. It coul [...]
Brilliant Smart WiFi plug
These smart plugs are a readily available, low-cost, and non-invasive home automation solution. Some models also have power monitoring. [...]
Raspberry Pi & Touchscreens
Testing Raspberry Pi with touchscreens. [...]
DIY Arduino Robot Arm with Smartphone Control
Hey peeps, Steve here 😀 Here’s a side project I’m working on in the Design FabLab to learn how to use mechanical electronics, [...]
Circuit Mockups: TinkerCAD, Fritzing and Circuito
Overview Designers need to communicate their designs to others. They need to be able to document their work so they can refer to it later or [...]
Building a tilt control bluetooth car with processing and arduino
Remote Control Car Overview: This project makes use of an Arduino, a car chassis, a bluetooth module, and an android phone to make a Remote [...]
RFID and Arduino
This is a basic access control project to read and use the unique IDs of RFID cards including the University of Auckland ID cards. It uses a [...]
Interfacing Arduino and sensors with Unity
Overview For this project, we attempted to interface hardware sensors with Unity to manipulate virtual objects and give feedback to hardware [...]
Arduino Radar scanner
This uses Arduino and hardware to feed data into Processing for the graphical user interface. [...]