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Micro USB Power Splitter

2019-02-09T00:04:51Z

You might recall my issues with power when it came to powering a motion sensor with a Wemos, from the xmas challenge: Connected Christmas Trees So I've created a little splitter for the power-in part to make it easy to grab the power straight fr...(read more)

Caustic XMAS

2019-01-15T15:02:11Z

Merry Boxes & LEDsEnter Your Project for a chance to win a Maker Tool Kit, an Oscilloscope Grand Prize for the project that brings the Most Joy to the Heart, and Gift to Gives!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly The...(read more)

Christmas Magic aka Advent Calendar on stereoids

2019-01-15T05:48:00Z

1. Introduction In this post I want to describe a Christmas Magic Advent Calendar project I have been working on recently (with some awesome help from the family). This project is best described as my take/dream on Advent Calendar. I think we all k...(read more)

Automatic christmas bell ringers.

2019-01-14T22:21:18Z

Holiday Lights and Music Festival With Love and Cheer: Python and Wrapping Presents/Code/Applications

2019-01-14T19:02:01Z

The Raspberry Pi 3 comes with BLE which can be used in a number of ways. The finished project at Holiday Lights and Music Festival With Love and Cheer uses BLE connected LED Lights and though a number of other things could be connected as well. ...(read more)

Probably the best possible Christmas lights

2019-01-13T13:04:00Z

During Christmas 2016 I stared in awe at a neighbour's fabulous Christmas light display. They had moving trains, characters, music, it was amazing. There was an ice cream van. I resolved that next year we would build a display to rival theirs....(read more)

Arduino for Holiday - Christmas Tree Lights

2019-01-13T07:29:53Z

I wanted to make it as a proof of concept that we can have not just boring lights that are given by the monochrome LEDs and in the same position in the Christmas tree we can have as many colors as we want.for more details enter the link belowhttps://...(read more)

Connected Christmas Trees - Finished!

2019-01-12T22:24:00Z

And now... time to unveil the finished project! www.youtube.com/watch The last step was to hide the electronics from the trees in a semi-festive manner. Using the little paper box imitations of Altoids tins that I created in my ...(read more)

Albero di(Gi) Natale

2019-01-12T18:06:00Z

Albero di(Gi) Natale is my first project made using Arduino. "Albero di Natale" means Christmas Tree in Italian. So the name has been created by the combination between "Albero digitale" and "Albero di Natale" and can be write down in both forms: Al...(read more)

Holiday Lights and Music Festival With Love and Cheer

2019-01-12T12:11:00Z

Video The Python Server Working Dollar stuff BBC Micro bit remotes Working Model Construction (on a budget) The code Conclusion Christmas is a very special time of year for me and my family. Every year, we celebrate the holidays by ma...(read more)

Merry Boxes - A Project Within a Project

2019-01-11T05:04:15Z

JackBox #6 : The Completed Article

2019-01-09T17:27:00Z

Having completed adding the sound in my last Blog I decided to improve the LED part a little bit. I took three of the LEDs white wooden snowflakes shapes and fixed them to the front and sides of the box. Rather than just these three LEDS on and off I...(read more)

JackBox # 5 : Adding Some Festive Sound

2019-01-08T18:15:38Z

The Connected Trees are Working!

2019-01-08T05:34:57Z

Motion Sensor Issues, continued

2019-01-05T23:39:41Z