I recently purchased an Arduino Due from an $18USD credit from ITEAD. I immediately went searching for something unique to use it for, that's when I found the ElectroSmash pedalSHEILD and thought that's the perfect thing. Above is a picture off Electrosmash's website showing how it all fits together, below is my finished product. It took me about … Continue reading Arduino Due & Electrosmash pedalSHIELD
Category: Arduino
STEMTera Kickstarter
On September 28th the STEMTera bread board was launched on Kickstarter. This is an Arduino compatible micro controller inside a modified solder less bread board. This caught my attention because I mainly tinker with Arduino stuff whilst sitting on the couch! So there are times when I'd have multiple pieces of gear with a rat's … Continue reading STEMTera Kickstarter
LED Tea Light
With Xmas not far away I'd ordered some LED tea Lights for the wife to make some decorations to give away to the family. I was interested to find out what was driving the LED, but because all the candles were required I was not able to autopsy one to find out. This got me … Continue reading LED Tea Light
Adafruit WICED Feather
Adafruit like experimenting with products to see what will inspire the electronics enthusiasts around the world. Now I've been after the ESP8266 Feather, however they have been unavailable for some time (so damn popular!) so I started looking for something else that had a wifi option. Released on March 23rd was the WICED Feather and I … Continue reading Adafruit WICED Feather