Next Project - Making anything into a "smart" appliance
Hello Everyone, Now that the Beyblade stadium project is complete, we are going to start something new. We are going to use an ESP8266 WiFi Module to send us an email when our water level sensor (Water Alarm - Glitch Circuits) goes off. But the same circuit and programming will apply to any device that […]
BeyBlade Stadium In Action
Hello everyone, We finally finished this video. Check it out and let us know what you think! Note: We had started doing a "How To" video to build this project, but 1/3 of the way into it the video had reached 18mins. And well, we did not think anyone would watch an hour long video […]
BeyBlade Stadium Update #2
Hello Everyone, It's been a long time coming, but the Bey Blade stadium build is done, and we are done making all of the recordings for the project. All thats left is to edit the video and put it up online. We hope to have it up sometime next week! We had tried something new […]
Wet Diaper Project Wrap Up
Hello Everyone, So far we've posted about the theory behind the wet diaper sensor project and we've posted a video of it in operation. Today lets wrap up this project by digging in a little deeper into why things didn't work out the way we had hoped. As part of that we'll share some ideas […]
Wet Diaper Sensor Video
Hello Everyone, we've just finished our wet diaper sensor video, check it out! ______ Help Support our work!
Project #4: Wet Diaper sensor
This project is a little different from the others we've done - in that it's already been completed. When going through some stuff that was in storage we came across this project tucked away in its box and thought we'd share it with you. It has been sitting in a box for over a decade […]
Power Alarm Completion video
Hello everyone, We finally did it - our first fully completed project. With this out of the way we'll go back and work on the other 2 outstanding projects, but for now, here's the power alarm in operation, enjoy! ______ Help Support our work!
Power Alarm Build
In our last post we outlined what we needed the Power Outage Alarm to do, so lets get started! First thing to cover is detecting when the power goes out. To do this we are just going to re-use one of the many 5V wall chargers we have lying around. When the 5V disappears from […]
Project #3: Power Alarm
Hello Everyone, While we've been waiting for deliveries with parts for our other projects, we thought we'd get started on a power alarm. This project doesn't really have any unique features, we're mostly doing it out of necessity. The water alarm needs a wireless interface to alert me of a soon to be flooded basement […]
Water Alarm Update
Hello Everyone, Because it's been awhile since we last posted about the water alarm, we thought we would give you an update on status of this project. We are halfway there... The alarms sounds when it comes into contact with water, but we still need to write the code to connect up to wifi and […]