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Earlier this year while attending a FabNow Conferance in Ft. Worth I came across a few exibits with Neo Pixel Rings. I was fascinated with the color levels and the fact they could be controlled with a single wire! While experimenting with the Neo Pixel Rings I ...

The following videos are displaying patterns generated by a Processing program doing real-time FFT (Fast Fourier transform). Basically it is visualizing music in the frequency domain using a polar-coordinate particle system.

The hardware makes use of Adafruit 8x8 neopixles, two 5v 10amp supplies, a FadeCandy controller, 16 AWG stranded wire ...

I built the Arduino GPS Clock by Tony DiCola over at Adafruit. The clock was very cool, setting it's time from the satellites, however, I soon started feeling like I was wasting my GPS shield by only using it to get time. So I decided to use the RGB ...

This is a really cool project that was originally on Make as a GPS Cat Tracker. Michael James, at the Programming Electronics Academy, put together an excellent 10 minute video showing you how easy it is to do this project.

Pretty cool huh?  If you enjoyed that you may also ...

Added a second joystick to the shield and use one for forward/back motion and the other for turning.  I find this setup gives better control.

Jeff Branson, from Sparkfun, saw my project on facebook and suggested I submit it to Sparkfun to be added to their project section.  I ...

This shield provides the necessary connections between the joystick and the Arduino so that it can read the joysticks X, Y and Switch readings on it's analog inputs.  I chose to mount the joystick on it's own proto shield instead of mounting it to the prototype area of ...

Expanding on my experiment with the MAX7219 controlling an 8x8 LED Matrix I added a second one. Both of the 8x8 displays and controllers were part of kits that couldn't fit neatly side by side, but the concept can still be demonstrated.

Using the circuit layout of the MAX7219 ...

Last night I put together the Nootropic design 16x32 RGB backpack from  Adafruit to power a 16x32 display also obtained from Adafruit.

The backpack kit is only $12.95 at the time of this writing. connects to the back of the Adafruit 16x32 RGB LED Matrix Panel and is a ...

This was the first experiment I did with Ken Shirrif's Infrared Remote Control Library for the Arduino.

The circuit uses a TSOP382 IR photo sensor to receive the codes from the Clarion remote controller I had lying around. Once the code is received the program then decides which tone ...