In this project, I built a night light with exact parameters of my own liking using simple components. I wanted the light to come ON when I detect the ambient light to be an exact value customized for my room, stay ON exactly as long as I want, and/or blink as I wish. Additionally, I […]
Month: April 2021
Arduino: Photoresistor and Servo motor working together to indicate light
This fun project is to visually and mechanically indicate day/night or light/dimness around with the help of a photoresistor that reads the light values. And that’s connected to a motor (a servo) which has an arm/arrow connected to it and it moves to certain positions depending on the light sensed by the photoresistor. Lastly, the […]
Arduino: Building a music tempo controller with simple components
In this project, I built a simple system where we can play a tune/music through a speaker (sound/tone is of our choice) and while it’s playing, we can control the tempo in real time. For the speaker, I used an inexpensive passive buzzer hooked up to a 10K resistance potentiometer. I insert a turning knob […]
Conversation over phone that you can “feeeeel”!
I can see some form of this being actually quite useful and popular even as a novelty. Change the form factor (to less clunky) that can be added to most phone, add horizontal motion for the feelers. I can imagine some people making creative uses for the tongue add-on.
Arduino: Building your own dimmer at home
This mini-project is to get a lamp to dim or brighten on command. In this case, we’ll hook up a regular LED to a potentiometer module, which when turned clockwise will increase the brightness of the LED lamp, or dim it (and all the way to “off”) when turned counter-clockwise. This is exactly how the […]
Arduino: LED color fade project
Here’s a straight-forward circuit with a LED light that’s controlled by my code downloaded to an Arduino controller’s chip running the “light show”. It starts with red color of LED set to max RGB(255,0,0)…then slowly dims the red as green value is increased incrementally to max. Then green is dimmed while blue is increased incrementally […]