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Thanks Secret Santa! (and also Arduino)

2022-02-08T07:49:00Z

Secret Santa sent me a set of security bits. I also was fortunate enough to get one of the Arduino Limited Edition Uno Minis for placing an Arduino in my Robot Santa project... Thanks Element14 and Arduino!(read more)

Holiday Special 20: The Learning Stone

2021-01-14T05:54:00Z

Another Element 14 Project submission Time! Around the various Holidays I enjoy creating little projects that match the theme of that specific Holiday, Spooky around Halloween, Spring/Life around Easter, Hearts/Candy/Love around Valentines, Star Wa...(read more)

Musical Card With Gyro Control LED's

2021-01-13T19:45:12Z

Holiday Special 20Enter Your Holiday Project for a chance to win a tool kit bundle, shopping cart, and gifts to give to other members!Submit an Entry Submit an Entry Back to homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll www.youtub...(read more)

Victoria's secret: A nervous Elf can lose his head

2021-01-11T05:31:00Z

Nothing is more fun and jovial than a happy Christmas Elf sitting on a gift, waving to you...except watching him lose his head when you catch him being naughty. The story: The naughty Elves like to peek inside very personal Christmas gifts. ...(read more)

Dog Shaped Arduinos. What could go wrong?

2021-01-10T19:34:00Z

"What brings you joy" Well, certainly, I'd say dogs, since they're one of my favorite species. In specific, corgis. You gotta admit, they have great smiles. Oh no I published it. *smacks my head* Oh wel...(read more)

Light up to your groove

2021-01-08T00:52:46Z

Hello, It's actually my first time joining a contest here in Element14, let alone doing blogging as well. So the title sounds like a disco thing but here me out. I plan to submit a project that gamifies your moves in a way that can bring a...(read more)

A QT Py Christmas - Failed to play audio from external Flash memory

2021-01-04T00:15:32Z

This will be my final post for the Holiday Special 20 project. I was able to accomplish much of what I had planned, but failed to get the Christmas music to play from the external flash memory on the QT Py. I'll use this post to describe ...(read more)

A QT Py Christmas - Accessing external Flash memory

2020-12-26T21:52:14Z

In the previous post (links at bottom), I had used my Xiao Expansion board to play Christmas music stored on the SD card using the SamdAudio player. I don't have an SD card on my QT Py ornament, but I did add a 2MB GD25Q16 external SPI flash chi...(read more)

A QT Py Christmas - add Sound

2020-12-25T23:39:56Z

For the final element of my QT Py Christmas ornament, I'd like to add the ability to play some Christmas music. The SAMD21 has a single DAC output that I'll use to generate tones, but I'll also need to add an audio amplifier to drive a speaker a...(read more)

A Lego Christmas game

2020-12-23T14:39:00Z

A project idea (and some dead ends) If there's one thing that my kids associate with Christmas, it's Lego! More so than turkey, mince pies or a tree - it's often all about Lego. They tend to get at least some Lego as a present and they're currently ...(read more)

A Contribution to the Holiday Cheer

2020-12-23T12:09:40Z

I know what I was doing a few years ago (2014 I think) as I was reminded by Facebook. See below. Here is Santa riding in on my mobile robot at the Raspberry Jam I organised, possibly Christmas 2014, distributing sweets to any passing young...(read more)

Make My Own World

2020-12-18T08:45:11Z

My File Is To Large(read more)

A QT Py Christmas - add Cap Sense Buttons

2020-12-14T01:16:23Z

The SAMD21 processor that is used on the QT Py has a built in Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) that can detect touch on external capacitive sensors. The PTC has a mutual-capacitance mode to sense touch on an x-y matrix and a self-capacitance m...(read more)

My Analog Synthesizer Adventure

2020-12-11T17:30:42Z

Having an interest in music and liking synthesizer music I thought it would be fun to create an analog version. My primary experience has been with digital designs and robotic controllers, but very little analog work. While there are many softw...(read more)

IoT based Smart Farming System(Hydroponics)

2020-12-10T10:50:23Z

I am an Electronics engineering student from India as my country is one of the largest agricultural country in the world so I want to make technology for farmers for advanced farming. For this I used ESP8266 WiFi module,...(read more)