“Ring light is basically a light that is placed around the objective. In close-up and macro photography it covers the subject with even light that seems to come from all around the lense. This removes all the shadows from the surface of the object. A great thing if you are shooting a photo for a [...]
16 Nov
Inspired by sundials, Taufeeq created a “Circle of Light” bulbdial clock. that uses shadows instead of hands to show the time. In theory, if you could use LEDs that have a perfect diffusion pattern, you could end up with a clock that has a white face and three hands: one cyan, one magenta and one [...]
28 Jan
This simple project shows you how to drive a RGB LED with a PIC. Interesting, colorful, and expandable. With a little work, you can replicate the Ford Focus’ best feature with this: its configurable interior lighting. How to drive a RGB LED with a PIC [link][via]
17 Jan
A very interesting project from KipKay (you might have heard of him through Metacafe): recycle a broken or obsolete camcorder and make a night vision camera out of its viewfinder. You’ll also need a few other components for this build but all the parts are reasonably inexpensive, considering the result. Best of all, you can [...]
09 Dec
Here’s a cool instructable on how to turn your fridge into a Lite-Brite. I find the project to be a bit destructive as it involves painting your fridge with conductive paint, but the concept could be taken out of context and you could build it differently. Perhaps as a hangable picture frame. This is something [...]
by Robert
"The distance is very far. I would have no doubt that you could control it from 100ft -200ft or more. ..."by Storage
"This is my kind of gadget. Whats the range on one of these? It would be ideal to stand at ..."by Manualidades
"Wow! great craft, but very dificult for me... hehehe thats man is incredible "by Ray
"Hi, thank you for this very exiting blog!!! Kind regards from Germany "
24 Nov