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Category: Electronics Projects

Raspberry Pi Powered Individually Addressable Christmas Lights

November 17, 2014
by admin in Electronics Projects

GE G35 Christmas bulbs are easily hackable. I wanted to control them with my Raspberry Pi, and this describes how I used a Parallax Propeller to do the intermediate protocol handling.

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Nixie Tube Calculator, Powered by a Raspberry Pi

November 4, 2014
by admin in Electronics Projects

My latest Nixie Tube Project, a desktop calculator controlled by the Raspberry Pi. It’s currently on Kickstarter!

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Raspberry Pi Nixie Tube Clock Prototype

June 7, 2013
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Nixie tube clock prototype using IN-12 Nixie tubes with a Raspberry PI. 74141 / K155D drivers are used with 74HCT595 shift registers.

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A temperature and humidity probe for the Elk M1 Gold

May 16, 2013
by admin in Electronics Projects

I design and build a temperature and humidity probe for the Elk M1 Gold Alarm / Home automation panel. A parallax propeller microcontroller and an SHT11 sensor is used.

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Cooper Wiring Devices TR7735W-BOX night light teardown

May 16, 2013
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A futile attempt to tear apart an LED night light in order to alter the sensitivity of the photocell.

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Propeller-powered IN-12 Nixie Clock

July 7, 2012
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My first self-designed Nixie Tube clock prototype. I use IN-12 Nixie tubes along with a parallax propeller microcontroller and a UP501 GPS module.

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Nixie Tube Web Counter

June 24, 2012
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I design a hit counter for smbaker.com using a Nixie Tube display module and a parallax propeller microcontroller.

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Scott’s iPad digital audio optical receiver / amplifier

September 1, 2011
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Unhappy with existing receiver options, I decided to build my own digital-audio receiver. I used IN-13 nixie bar graphs, a MiniDSP/MiniAmp stack, and an airport express. I even added an Alps MotorPot controller by a parallax propeller microcontroller so the volume can be changed from a web browser. Eventually modified this project to play Pandora using a raspberry pi.

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