NIXIEs and Accelerometers

Four Nixies

It's been a while since I've posted anything, so I'll drop a quick update. Hopefully by the end of the coming week I'll have finished on my current great big time-consuming project and will be able to write that up.

I've been playing with a ...

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Macro Goodness

Macro lenses are great fun for electronics:

Arduino / ATMega168 Voltage Regulator Up Close Dirty Hack Capacitors Soldering Precision Resistors

I've also nearly finished the current big, time consuming project that's been stopping me from working on anything else - so expect a big post on it some time soon!

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LED Fireflies in a Jar

LED Fireflies in a Jar

I've been trying to make electronic fireflies for ages now, and most of my previous attempts involved RGB LEDs, and one of them per ATtiny13 with code to flash a random colour now and again. This was always going to be a pretty expensive method, but after seeing http ...

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PCBs from Golden Phoenix arrive

PCBs from Golden Phoenix

I guess my new project has officially started! The PCBs I ordered from Golden Phoenix arrived today, a day short of two weeks from when I placed the order.

They've turned out really nicely, and I especially like the black soldermask. I plan to reflow solder the components on ...

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Nixie Tubes: Lit up at last!

Nixies At Last

I know I got them months and months ago, but I've only just had time to actually do anything besides work. While I do have a big project coming up (but not really at the point where I can write about it), I did finally make the PCB for ...

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Nixie Tubes Arrived!

Nixie Tubes

The twelve nixie tubes (and corresponding driver ICs) I ordered two weeks ago arrived today from http://tubes-store.com in Russia. They were beautifully packaged in two layers of foam and a cardboard box from some kind of kid's milk in Russia. All the tubes are intact and in ...

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Night Nerf

LED Nerf

I'm off to Mongolia for a month in only five days, and one of the toys I'll be bringing is a Nerf Vertex, basically you throw it and it whistles as it moves and you can catch it and all that fun stuff.

It does have one problem ...

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Robot 1 Prototype

Robot One Prototype One

This is my first prototype robot. A friend and I got together and he taped stuff to cardboard while I connected wires up and then we wrote a basic program and the prototype drove!

This version literally just drives forward until the ultrasonic sensor detects an obstacle, then it turns ...

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Final Lightbar Controller

I've finished the lightbar controller!

Lightbar Visualiser

This device analyses the music it picks up via the electret microphone, then flashes the LEDs in time to the music. It's encased in the box SparkFun sent me the microphones in, since the box was just begging to be used as a ...

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