Homemade Blinky Christmas Ornaments
Last year I decided to jazz up our family Christmas cards with LED power, inspired by this article. While I was totally happy with the cards I sent out, I was wanting something a bit…
Arduino Clone Powered RGB Keyboard Light
I recently remodeled my office as I’ll be working from home full-time starting in March, it’s amazing what you can do with $1k dollars at Ikea! Anyhow, love my office setup, especially my desk but…
Why Adafruit Industries Sets the Gold Standard for Customer Service
I can only think of a few times in my life that I’ve had such an experience with a company that I felt driven to tell others about it. The Frustration of Poor Customer Service…
Build an ATTiny13A Halloween Jack-O-Lantern with Realistic Fire LEDs
So I was waiting for this time of year when I first built my “Fake-fire LED” boards last year and now it’s finally here! Battery Life and Performance I’ve been running this jack-o-lantern for about…
Why I Abandoned FreeNAS for Ubuntu Server: My Home NAS Journey (Part 3)
The Breaking Point: Slow Transfer Speeds So after a few months of using FreeNAS I’ve decided I can’t live with the insanely slow transfer speeds. Unfortunately FreeNAS is built on FreeBSD and has a terrible…
DIY IKEA Lampan RGB LED Mood Light with ATTiny2313 and PWM Control
The Inspiration A few months ago, I saw this blog and video. The gentleman had hacked a Lampan light from IKEA with LEDs, I was immediately enamored with the idea of building it and giving…