In an effort to increase maximum ease and relaxation at our cottage in Michigan, I designed and built a robot capable of delivering drinks and dinner to our remote treehouse. We love to have dinner and drinks out there, but it’s a challenge for us to bring all the stuff out and back. Mostly I…
Tag: Arduino
Flight Simulator Build
Way back in 2016, I started to get very interested in getting a pilots license. I had been casually using X-Plane prior to this, but now started to take it more seriously. I built a mediocre flight sim control panel using off the shelf hardware from Saitek at first. In 2017, I decided to enroll…
Crypto Currency Meter
I jumped on the crypto bandwagon awhile back and for fun, wanted to build a cryptocurrency analog meter to gauge how much money I was losing every day. Using my past experience with the 8266 chips in my LED Cloud project, I thought this would be EASY. Not the case, it seems. As usual, working…
Alexa Activated LED Cloud
For my Grandson, I set out to build an LED cloud, mostly based on this Sparkfun tutorial. It was overall pretty easy to build as I had some Chinese lanterns, LED strips and an extra Arduino. The most difficult part of the project was attaching the pillow stuffing to the Chinese lanterns. The first…