Our kids are birthday-wise pretty close, and only one year apart. Wouldn't it be a great idea to combine the parties? In hindsight, it was a pretty bad idea inviting so many kids at once, but at least we build some bristlebots.
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#Make #Toy #Toothbrush #Bristlebots #Spiders #Halloween #Technology-With-Kids
There comes the moment in every's Arduino programmer life when 1 LED is not enough. As always, the next feasible step from one is 60, but controlling a set of red, green and blue LEDs to represent the 8bit color array is slightly more difficult then one would expect.
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#Make #Led-Rgb #Ws2812b #Arduino
In a desperate attempt to prove my kids our robomover is stupid we collaboratively created an indoor version with an arduino. This is when I learned that kids are too noisy for ultrasonic sensors.
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#Make #Toy #Arduino #Vehicle #Software-Development #Technology-With-Kids
My family produces too many videos that (for unknown reasons) we want to keep. As cloud storage is expensive at Terabyte level, and I love building things, I took an alternative approach to have my own fault safe 3TB HomeCloud at ~300EUR.
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#Make #Homecloud #Nas #Raid-1 #Odroid #Nextcloud
Sometimes, my kids expect a little more of their toys then they get. Luckily in this case, with an LED, a button, a battery and some cables, this can be fixed.
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#Make #Toy #Led #Technology-With-Kids