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Bring Back Your Old Apple Mouse With A Wireless Heart Transplant!
Remember when mice were a new and awesome invention? Then a few years later we …
Monitor Network System Status With Traffic Lights & A Raspberry Pi
Many network administrators or systems operators who use the open-source OP5 network and application services …
Reginald – The surveillance robot controlled via the Internet
In what can be considered a fascinating, multi-function robot that can be controlled via the …
Make Your Own Temperature-Sensing Mushroom Light
For something completely different, the folks at the PsychicOrigami blog have modified an interesting lamp, …
Play retro LCD games using a PC and an Arduino board
If you grew up in the early 1980s, you would probably be familiar with the …
Create a “pet curfew” with an automated pet door
There is a saying “dogs have masters, but cats have staff”. However, with the automated …
A tribute to seven-segment numeric displays
We see them countless times during the day, in clocks, car dashboards, video games, timers, …
The lock you unlock with a knock!
This project forms one of the most inventive door-locking systems we’ve ever seen. Created by …
Arduino Prototyping & Open-Source Electronics
This article provides a general overview of the world of Arduino & open source electronics. …