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Invention Orphanage – Addressable LED Strip Display Applications
| June 18, 2018
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Invention Orphanage – Thermal Imager
| June 18, 2018
So here’s couple of pics of the thermal imager. The first version in a small form factor. It’s the box below the Samsung J7 phone. With the
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Thermal Imaging Example
| June 18, 2018
Invention Orphanage is my new venture featuring a lot of hardware related products and services. I have 3 categories of stuff for now. Thermal Imaging Here are an
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Raspberry Pi to Arduino SPI Max Data Transfer Rate
| October 25, 2017
There are many ways to send data from Raspberry Pi to an Arduino. One of these is by using the SPI interface. Here are some of the things
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DIY: Intro to using addressable LED strips
| October 29, 2016
Addressable LED strips are nifty things. They’re basically a series of interconnected RGB LEDs that you can individually control. Here are a few things you need to consider
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DIY: Texture mapping for cylindrical LED strip displays
| October 29, 2016
Addressable LED strips are perfect for making displays that wrap around posts and cylindrical objects. The issue is that you most likely will not be able to perfectly
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DIY: Creating an addressable rgb led strip display
| October 29, 2016
You can use a long length of addressable LED strip as a display by arranging it in rows.
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DIY: How much can you bend EL (Electroluminiscent) Wire
| July 30, 2016
How much can you bend electroluminiscent wire? Let’s find out. We’ll look at the structure under a microscope and then try to bend the heck ut of it.
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Handling Dead Pixels in RGB LED Displays
| May 12, 2016
Deadpixels in RGB LED displays will happen sooner or later. This is an approach that is meant to make the deadpixels less noticeable. In this example we use
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DIY How to make a lightsaber hilt from a flashlight
| December 8, 2015
Not all flashlights will make agood lightsaber hilt, but I found one that had all the good qualities. Here are a few things you should look for when
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