GE Link LED Light and Wink HUB Teardown
Last week I saw that Home Depot was running a deal on the new GE Link LED lights and a Wink hub which can control them. The deal was that if you buy 2 of the GE Link LED lights, you can buy the Wink home automation HUB for $20, instead of the normal $50 […]
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Large Switched DC Power Supply For Argon Laser Project Log 5 Sneak Peak
Posted on August 1st, 2014 in Custom Projects, DIY Equipment, Electronics, Energy, Laser, LEDs, Science, Technology
Log 5 isn’t ready for posting yet, but a lot of stuff has gone on in the past couple of weeks. I wanted to give a quick sneak peak of the front panel though because it’s looking pretty good for the most part. In the panel are two LCD volt and amp meters which I bought […]
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High Density WS2812B Panel Project
Posted on March 16th, 2014 in Arduino, Custom Projects, DIY Equipment, Electronics, LEDs, Lighting, Teensy, Video
The WS2812B RGB LED chip is a wonderful little device. It contains Red, Green and Blue LED elements and also a WS2811 RGB LED driver. The chip has only 4 pins. Power, Ground, Data In and Data Out and can easily be chained to another chip. With enough of these chips chained together your can […]
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New Development Toy
I just picked up a new development toy, the Teensy 3.1. This thing looks pretty awesome, and it’s compatible with the Arduino 1.0.5 IDE which is great for me. The Teensy 3.1 has a lot of great features that lends itself to being used in my projects. Just the pinout on the device shows that […]
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Luxeon Star V 5-Watt Royal Blue LED Video Demo
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 in Electronics, LEDs
I’m a big fan of LED lighting which is why when I ordered a bunch of parts from SparkFun the other day I ordered a 5 watt Royal Blue LED by Luxeon. These 1 Watt Luxeon LEDs are discontinued and brighter stuff is available now. Up to 100 Watts or more! This LED is quite […]
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