Brickoleur, What We Make of Things

What's a city play mat without street lights? These model train set street lights I purchased from eBay arrived and I incorporated them ...

Another part of my Interactive Town Play Mat project is a series of "street lights" along a few of the streets. I originally thou...

After achieving success with getting the RGB NeoPixels to work, I quickly put together a sketch to control a traffic signal for a four-way ...

For the traffic light project, I will require different colored LEDs. Rather than going with single color LEDs, I decided to use RGB LEDs. T...

I started playing around with the Lilypad Protosnap Development board. I found this awesome Sketch (what Arduino calls a program) ...

Some initial parts arrived!  The first Arduino board that I'm learning on is the Lilypad Protosnap Development Board. It conve...

I came across an interesting website called Codebender.cc . Think of it as Google Docs for Arduino sketches (Arduino programs are called ...