Category Archives: tech

This night’s creation is a pitching machine to fling pieces of foam. This was accomplished by using the flywheel and small motor from an old tape deck. The main issues were that the wooden holes became elongated, which caused the … Continue reading →

I’ve always wanted to try replicating this experiment, but I’ve never had a laser or the patience at the same time. I was frustrated with myself for not being able to adequately explain why its not possible to make a … Continue reading →

Happy Valentine’s day! I came home from the store last night and promptly fell asleep, so I am officially running about 12 hours behind now. Anyway, these two little creatures blink when you put them in each others arms.

I re-purposed the display I made earlier to act as a snake game. It’s not perfect but it’s a good start. Code is after the break. Photos here.

Todays project is another little experiment in different ways to interact with the Arduino. It was inspired by a project I saw a while ago, which consisted of these blocks that you could bang on, that then remembered that beat … Continue reading →

I thought this would be pretty fun; by reading the voltage from the center pin of the the servo’s potentiometer, it can be used as an input as well as an output device. Basically, you get a bunch of extra … Continue reading →

I was really tired last night so I worked on some smaller things and cleaned off one of my tables. I also wrote a little script to convert images so that they can be displayed on my LED array, however … Continue reading →