Adafruit Monochrome 128×32 OLED graphic display
I recently got my hands on the Adafruit Monochrome 128x32 OLED graphic display for my next project. This is a 128x32 OLED B+W graphics chip and it's tiny! Don't let its size fool you however. Being an OLED display, text/graphics contrasts well against the black background. My initial intent for this display was to use it to provide information to you GPS Red Light Camera project. It's job would be to provide key information such…
Review – AVAGO – ASMT-LW60 – LED Fibre Optic Strip
I'd say that LEDs have been one of the fastest spreading new technologies in the last 10 years. Consider now that most cars are being manufactured with LED lighting for all the turn/marker/brake/DRL lights. They have even made an impact with home lighting - even though people are being gouged with inflated pricing (IMHO) from places like Home Depot, Rona, Lowes This will change as LEDs become Just wish I had invested in those…
Review – OPTEK – Warm White LED Strip
Lately, I've been toying around with different LED strips for my projects. I've had the chance to use a variety of LED strips (both RGB, and single colour types). They come in many flavours - water proof, 3m-backed, silcone encased, sealed, non-sealed, exposed etc. All have their advantages / disadvantages. (more…)
Review – Optek LED Strip
After completing my Juke footwell / glove box LED mod, I decided that the footwell LEDs just were not bright enough. I came across these Optek 3 LED white lights from Newark that have just the right white light and luminosity. These LED bars are built tough. The LEDs appear to be set in a hardened liquid plastic. Wires run in one end and out the other - it seems that these strips were…
Nissan Juke – Footwell & Glove Box LED Lightning
Next on the block - adding LEDs to the foot wells and glove box. (Prev mods: LED Tails and Rear Passenger LED mods) This mod can be especially useful this time of year up here on the 49th parallel since we are pretty much in darkness @ 5PM during November. All to often I drop something down near my feet and have to go looking for it. The light that casts from the map lights…
Nissan Juke – Interior LED Illumination – Rear Passenger Light
I just finished adding LEDs to the tail lights, and now its time to move on to the interior. For those of you who have a Juke, you can sympathize with me on this - the Juke is a great vehicle, but it is lacking in some very basic necessities ( armrest, removable cup holders, a rear passenger light!). This has been further compounded by the fact that I have 2 children in child seats…
Nissan Juke – Custom LED Tail Lights
I'm a sucker for not conforming to status quo when it comes to my This includes my new Nissan (2012) Juke. In this mod, I added a set of LED light strips to the tail lights with a twist - I wanted to also monitor and react to braking to enhance the effect. I decided to go with an ATTiny85 using the Arduino core. It only needed 1 input from the 12V brake power and…
Dual LED Desk Light Controller – Arduino
I've been involved in microcontrollers for some time - but of the LEGO Mindstorms flavour (and BASIC Stamp to a lesser extent). Lately, I've jumped on the Arduino bandwagon. I've always had the natural nack to fix pretty much anything that has batteries or a plug running out of it. As the Arduino revolution has picked up dramatically over the past few years, so to has my desire to do DIY projects around the house.…
Pulito – Featuring DFlex
Over the summer we installed hardwood flooring - which needs constant sweeping and cleaning . What to What to Well, most of us would just sweep it, right? Some of us might even go buy a Roomba. But, then again, some of us build something to do it for them. Why? Because we Pulito (Italian for 'clean') is simply put, a sweeper robot. Much like a Swiffer and Roomba combined. The intent was…
Pulito – Beacon (Version 1) Internals
OLD Version Details: (see new version here): The following is a picture of the charging beacon. Although it looks quite plain from the outside, it is what is inside that resulted in this being a 5 month build (well that and things like kids! :-) ) From the top there is a cutout for the LCD. The purpose of the LCD is to display the change from 1200 to 600 Hz. The gray axle on…