My early memories of being a maker
I figured it might be fun to talk about some of my earliest memories of being a maker. I think my current interest started with issue 40 of MagPi magazine in December 2015, famous...
Tagged: LEDs
My Halloween box isn’t four months late, it’s eight months early
Back in September 2016, inspired a bunch of cool looking projects I found on Instructables, along with access to a laser cutter, and some stock art, I decided to fully embrace this whole maker...
In the eye of the beholder
When we last left our handsome hero he was securing the perimeter using a PIR sensor and an Arduino. The rig was designed to raise an alarm via a piezo buzzer when the sensor...
What’s in the box?
A couple of months ago I got really excited when I saw that Adafruit had launched a curated box of products suitable for anyone that’s part of the maker scene. The AdaBox follows the...
Made some progress, finally!
This is a short post with a simple mission – to inform all (three) of you of my success in completing Project 3: LED Lighting. Following on from what I learned last week, I...
Learning from one’s mistakes
After a number of failures with the other projects I’ve worked on recently, I was looking forward to a success with Project 3: LED Lights. How hard can it be to wire up some...
You light up my heart
If you’ll indulge me for just a moment, I want to talk about something which isn’t related to zombies, but is about electronics and my attempts to get creative. With the failure of the...
Prime day was eventful, for all the wrong reasons
The 12th July was Prime Day, Amazon’s answer to the blue cross sale. This is relevant, as I was saving my money for this special day, planning to use it as an opportunity to...
