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5th February 2011

555 Araneae Junkboxius

Junkbox electrical component blinking 555/LED spider sculpture project.

4 comments.

16th January 2011

Ring Oscillator Blinkenlights

A bit of fun with LEDs, transistors and capacitors.

18th December 2010

TRON Backpack

Electroluminescent trimmed backpack inspired by TRON.

5 comments.

23rd October 2010

Larson Scanner

Simple blinkenlight project to Cylonify my workstation PC.

5 comments.

4th January 2010

Rope Light Controller Failure

Arcing fault destroys the Rope Light controller.

Parent article: Rope Light Christmas Star.

6 comments.

28th December 2009

4-channel PWM Tree Emulator

A web-based emulator for the 240 LED Christmas Tree project.

Parent article: 240 LED Animated Christmas Tree.

2 comments.

25th December 2009

240 LED Animated Christmas Tree

A simple 4 channel, PMW-controlled, 240 LED Christmas Tree.

Contains 1 sub-article.

23rd December 2009

Rope Light Christmas Star

A large Christmas Star for my balcony made using a length of rope light and some timber dowelling.

Contains 1 sub-article.

20th December 2009

19 LED Animated Christmas Star

A charlieplexed 19 LED animated Christmas star for my Christmas tree.

4 comments.

13th December 2009

Charlieplexed 16 LED Animated Christmas Tree

A proof-of-concept test bed for a range of animated electronic Christmas decorations.

2 comments.

5th January 2009

Dekatron Emulator

A solid-state emulation of the infamous "dekatron spinner" implemented using a 10-stage discrete ring counter.

14th February 2003

Neon Flasher

A super simple inverter that will flash a neon brightly, powered by as little as a single 1.2 Volt rechargeable cell.

1 comment.