Background A birthday present I made for someone. 🥳 Ingredients Custom firmware containing the FastLED library, compiled using the Arduino platform: https://github.com/ufanders/flyingSeaTurtle Automaton model made by amaochan on Thingiverse: Flying Sea Turtle Base model edits, made in Autodesk Fusion 360:… Continue Reading
A multi-person, multi-color, completely absurd totem we created for Electric Forest 2019. What it’s made of Custom firmware programmed in C and compiled by the Arduino IDE Plush frog LED party lights ESP32 device Motor controllers Speaker driver Speaker (similar,… Continue Reading
What it is A big button that lights up an LED strip to catch my attention when I’m wearing noise-cancelling headphones and in a zone. What it’s made of Firmware written in C, compiled by the Arduino IDE Arduino Pro… Continue Reading
This is a full 4,096 color 8×8 LED matrix based wristwatch with software-driven 4-bit PWM for each channel at 60 full PWM sweeps per second. Background I wanted to see how much performance I could squeeze out of the then-newly… Continue Reading
An artsy night-light that glows with the phases of a Puerto Rican sunset. Background For a few summer months I managed to trick a beautiful blonde dancer into hanging out with me for a while. In my bewilderment I made a night-light… Continue Reading
An oversized scanned-matrix display using 10mm LEDs. Background When Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart announced the Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear, my politically zealous brother wanted to add some flair to the party. We devised a satirical protest sign… Continue Reading
Sometimes you just need a wristwatch, and sometimes you come across a bunch of super-sweet retro LED displays pulled from calculators of yore. I mean, what else am I going to do with my time? Background Back in late 2009… Continue Reading