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Music and Lights!
This is a little project I took on recently for my son’s afterschool Makerspace. The goal ultimately was to do something with Christmas lights, basically having an Arduino or something drive...
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LED Advent Wreath
After making an LED Christmas tree, I felt I really had to make an LED Advent Wreath! I had a circular PCB by chance (as I tend to grab everything I can get my hands on when being recycled!): I...
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Happy Holidays!!
After a bit of a scramble late last week, we were able to get v1.0 of the Makerspace sign up at my sons’ middle school Friday morning! This is the conclusion to the project I mentioned before (Music...
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Magic Cooler??
(Not an April Fool’s joke) Andres, Nikki and I at Freescale have submitted an entry for the Austin Mini Maker Faire 2015 based on the Music and Lights project exhibited here! Of course it since has...
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Making Magic in a Cooler – Part 1
Andres and I were finally able to complete the Magic Cooler project and present it at the Freescale booth at Austin Mini Maker Faire 2015! Now to document! This project started out as something to...
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Internet of Squirrel?
So I was getting ready to write my next blog entry for the Magic Cooler, when…. Well, Esquilo! (squirrel in Portuguese) anyway! The founders of Esquilo came to visit at work this week. They have a...
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Making Magic In A Cooler – Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of the Magic Cooler project. If you missed Part 1, you can read it here. Thus far we have focused only on building the AC circuit that will serve to directly control the 10...
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Joy to the World!
First of all, sorry it’s been a while since my last post. More articles to come in 2016! Since then, I did manage to take the Magic Cooler and use it to run the Christmas lights on my house with some...
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