Category: Hobby
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A house made of sweets
There’s a video produced by Tasty from several years ago featuring making gingerbread houses. I watch it every year because I enjoy their videos and the Christmas music makes my heart happy. After a mixed-success of making my own last year, I decided to attempt a family-activity of making confectionary constructions.
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Christmas Lights Snowflake Prop!
A few years back as I was starting to build out my Holiday light setup, I remember watching a video where the host said “3D printing is what really takes this hobby to the next level.” Up until last Christmas, I didn’t really have a 3D printer that I could rely upon, and I had…
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The Macintosh SAO
I attended the 2024 Hackaday Supercon conference this year. I wanted to take something special to share. So I made a little electronics badge that acts a little like an Original Macintosh.
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Christmas Countdown!
Sometime in 2016 I came up with an idea for a project: A Christmas ornament that counted the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds until Christmas. But I wanted it to be nerdy and interesting, and something that I hadn’t seen anywhere else. So I started working on an ornament that would count down…
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Weekend Project – Ghost Message!
Many years ago, I thought it’d be a fun idea to have an RGB panel that would display game sprites on demand, connected to the internet, so people could display a sprite on demand. Just a sort of fun thing to have on my desk. One evening last week, I decided that I wanted to…
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Programming AVRs using a USBasp on a Mac
I loaned out my trusty USBTinyISP to a friend a while back and it was easier to go find an alternative than to coordinate schedules. So I bought a USBasp – another type of open source programmer for AVRs. I ran into an number of problems getting it to work because there is so much…
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Early Morning Project: RasPi Zero Roomba
I can’t sleep. Instead of sleeping, I’m hacking robots. Last year during my winter holiday I wired up a Raspberry Pi to my Roomba, to drive it around and such. More recently I got a Raspberry Pi Zero and wanted to do the same thing.
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Programming an nRF52 on a Mac
Several months ago, I went to promotional conference for a microcontroller on a whim. I’d heard about it the night before, and after some investigation I found out I could get a free development board out of it. Did somebody say free??? Yeah, that’s me. So I got the board and promptly did nothing with…
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Weekend Project: Wireless outlet control
I mentioned briefly in my post about controlling LEDs with my Amazon Echo that I have some wireless outlet switches that I wanted to control. At the time I didn’t have a transmitter that could switch them on, and it didn’t really want to crack open the remote and mess with it. Weeks later, the transmitter that I’d ordered arrived.…
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Weekend Project: Amazon Echo LED Control
As I mentioned last week, I got an Amazon Echo for Christmas. The first time I heard about it I thought “Meh, I already have a phone that does that”. Then I heard people raving about it on Podcasts and thought “hmm..” Then I heard the thing that really got me excited: The Echo has…