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Thanks Secret Santa! (and also Arduino)

fmilburn — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:49:00 GMT

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

jkutzsch — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 05:54:00 GMT

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

harjinagi — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:45:12 GMT

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

robogary — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:31:00 GMT

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?

hugohu — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:34:00 GMT

"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

alrms — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:52:46 GMT

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

ralphjy — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:15:32 GMT

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

ralphjy — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 21:52:14 GMT

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

ralphjy — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:39:56 GMT

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

Fred27 — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:39:00 GMT

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

dubbie — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:09:40 GMT

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

aawarakimoty0007 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 08:45:11 GMT

My File Is To Large(read more)

A QT Py Christmas - add Cap Sense Buttons

ralphjy — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 01:16:23 GMT

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

RoboticDeveloper — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:30:42 GMT

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)

invinciverm — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:50:23 GMT

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)