Build a power switch for the Amazon Echo that can be activated from a voice command.
Wherein I take a break from pushing pixels around to wire my biker scout trooper helmet for sound.
Here are some ideas and downloadable designs to get you inspired this Halloween season.
To paraphrase Mark Twain: I didn't have time to highlight one project, so I'm going to highlight three.
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Fantastic build! Would it be futile to ask for a rundown of your Borg costume some time?
Yeah, I remember the original “optical” mice. I really hated these things – to the point when the mechanical mouse on my Sparkstation…
Hello, I am wondering if you needed to mount the ‘neon light’ onto a backboard like the real ones or whether it really is sturdy enough to…
I wish things were as simple as shown in the above diagrams. But they are not - far from it. If you connect any kind of arduino directly to…
Shawn, here is an example of “worst dimmer ever.” I’ll take your…
Interesting….I didn’t know that. I would have thought they all used potentiometers!
Thanks! Sad that we missed it by a week! I do remember those old mice….I was always having to clean out the ball cavity. I didn’t have an…
The N64 controller’s analog stick used rotary encoders instead of potentiometers… The PlayStation 1 “dualshock” controllers used…
Forgot to mention another place rotary encoders are/were found: those of us who remember “mechanical” mice, they had one quadrature detector…
