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Micro USB Power Splitter

ntewinkel — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 00:04:51 GMT

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

neuromodulator — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:02:11 GMT

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

archiela — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:48:00 GMT

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.

danielw — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 22:21:18 GMT

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

ipv1 — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:02:01 GMT

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

czmusg3jh56fh0jw&maa — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 13:04:00 GMT

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

nick11235 — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 07:29:53 GMT

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!

ntewinkel — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:24:00 GMT

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

costantinorizzuti — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 18:06:00 GMT

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

ipv1 — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:11:00 GMT

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

ntewinkel — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 05:04:15 GMT

JackBox #6 : The Completed Article

dubbie — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:27:00 GMT

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

dubbie — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:15:38 GMT

The Connected Trees are Working!

ntewinkel — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 05:34:57 GMT

Motion Sensor Issues, continued

ntewinkel — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 23:39:41 GMT