Other Stuff

While this post is not about any electronic project that I have made, it is nonetheless interesting (well, I think so anyway). The background story is that we are selling our house to move into a different house which needs some renovations done to it before we move in. We are trying to do all the renovations […]

There’s a new Kickstarter campaign up and running which combines an Arduino with a long range wireless transceiver module which has been designed to operate on very low power. Full details can be found in the Kickstarter campaign: Whisper Node Kickstarter Getting your Arduino to communicate to each other over-the-air, when powered by batteries, is now

I decided to open up my own little online electronics hobby store – Brads Electronics Shop (can you see how I came up with that name?) At the moment it is intended for those in Australia It’s now open to all those worldwide! to get all sorts of electronics components, tools, modules, wires etc… At a low price.

I made a previous post of how some people have made their own RetroBall unit: https://www.bradsprojects.com/a-couple-more-retroballs/ Well it’s great to see that people are still making their own version and the latest addition has been made by forum user Ulf Maier. He has kindly provided some photo’s of his build which happens to be a super

Forum user bitfogav has made a well themed project in the form of circuit board Christmas trees. Each tree contains 16 LED’s, driven by a couple of 74595 (serial in – parallel out) shift registers. An Arduino or practically any microcontroller can then be used to send in a bunch of 1’s and 0’s to

Erik Kettenburg from over at digistump.com has come up with his fourth Kickstarter campaign named ‘Oak’. Oak is a tiny Arduino Compatible development board with built-in Wi-Fi and a secure cloud-powered platformcalled RootCloud (online IDE, REST API, and Dashboard) which makes it easy to create cloud-connected electronic devices, projects, and products. Oak is fully Arduino

David John Barker (The guy behind my favourite programming IDE Swordfish Basic) has started up a Kickstarter campaign today where you can pledge for some StickyBUG’s! But what are StickyBUGs? Good question, but first some background information. Arduino is a great versatile electronics / programming platform that allows you to plug in various shields for

I am a big fan of the old Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. And perhaps one of my favourite games on that system is Super Mario Bros. (image reference: http://images.eurogamer.net/2013/usgamer/NGL1—Super-Mario-Bros.png) So a few years ago I decided to make my own version of this Nintendo classic but restrict it to just 64 pixels on an