Category Archives: Electronics

Booze Bookshelf with LEDs and built-in dance party

October 14, 2013Design, Electronicsarduino, booze, LED, mega, RGB, ultrasonic, wine rackJeremy Gillick

When my girlfriend and I moved into our small apartment in San Francisco we wanted to setup some sort of compact liquor cabinet and wine rack. After a quick trip to IKEA we had a bookshelf we could easily convert into a fancy boozeshelf unit! *insert music montage here* After adding holders for wine glasses and bottles it was good, but still a bit boring and not quite perfect. At night it would just stand there against the wall in a shadow, not presenting our handiwork at all. A true insult to all the alcohol we had on display. I felt like it needed something more — some light…and sensors…and might as well throw in a dance party while I’m at it.

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Arduino – Fade LEDs without blocking

October 11, 2013Arduino, ElectronicsJeremy Gillick

The simple LED fading demos are great for learning Arduino, but when you actually need your processor to be doing something — like receiving serial input or reading a sensor — fading your LEDS can get in the way.

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Ganzbot: An Arduino robot who reads Twitter

August 18, 2008Electronicsarduino, freetts, ganzbot, java, robotJeremy Gillick

This funny little robot has eyes, eyebrows and a mouth and will verbally read your latest Twitter status to you. It uses an Arduino Decima to control the head actions and receives the latest Twitter status information over USB from a host computer.

You can also send the robot something to say directly from the command line with a few Ganzbot moods to choose from. More information after the videos.