Greetings. This month, I developed another game as a web application (HTML5) that employs auto-scaling, sound, and responsiveness on all platforms that support a browser. That means, PC, tablets, smartphones, etc. You can use touch or mouse as inputs. It’s based on the simple and classic game concept where you get to pick an “odd […]
Tag: STEM
Ig Nobel Prize Winners: 2021
The winners of the 2021 Ig Nobel Prize are announced today. One of them caught my attention, which happens to be in the Economics category by Pavlo Blavatskyy for for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption. Very interesting indeed and although it made me […]
Free custom icon based on my original painting: Oscar
In this post, I’m sharing an icon based off one of my original canvas paintings of Oscar fish. A snapshot of the painting is below (shown in smaller size than original): The original canvas is not for sale, however, a high-resolution, full-size digitized version is available as a NFT only on this official NFT exchange […]
Potential Sculpture Designs
Here’s a quick scratch pad note about a couple of shapes (one is hyperbolic paraboloid and another one has no name…will have to come up with an artificial one!)…playing with the equations a+b+c=bc and a+b+c=abc Their shapes are mesmerizing to me and in addition to them being artistic, cool, I also see practical uses of […]
Safe disposal of 6-pack rings killers
The six-pack yokes or rings are a set of connected plastic rings that are used in multi-packs of beverage and beer cans in the USA. These are discarded carelessly by most Americans and even though you might put them in recycle cans (if your city has the facility like mine does), they somehow end up […]
Creating your own light show
With programmable LED strands, strips, and rings, it’s not only satisfying and fun but also a solid learning experience for any enthusiasts. Besides, who can ever get enough of tinkering with LEDs? In this project, I connect a 24 pixel ring LED module to an Arduino board, then wrote some light effects functions in the […]
Arduino: Build a custom nightlight
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]