All Da Colors! This fun little creation allows you to switch color to color as well as their combinations as you turn the potentiometer! Check it out in action!
Author: Yatin Kaushal
Light Show
Ever start listening to a bomb ass song and wish you could have some sick lights to correspond to the music? Me too!
I’ve created a board that you can press several switches and alternate the light patterns. They range from fast to slow and various other combinations. Right now there are only 4 light combinations but with enough funding there’s sure to be more!… Anyways, here’s a video of me jamming out to the song Hey Daddy by Usher #tbt amirite
Stranded
I am part of a subgroup of students known as the StudyAways (well we call ourselves that) and we compose of several NY students and Shanghai students. We absolutely love the campus and simply how everything is free. However, whenever we go on and on about what we love about this campus, there is always that “but” at the end of the sentence. The campus is in the middle of a desert in the middle of an island miles away from a city that we can see in the distance but never feel like we have easy access to. And although we have shuttles to take us to and fro, we find ourselves competing with other students and if any of our fellow StudyAways get late, they get left behind as we wave goodbye from the window. Most of us are used to our campuses being surrounded by vibrant places to visit and things to do that is only a walking distance away. Now before you say anything, I know there’s not much the University can do. Some may say that the shuttles are the University’s acknowledgement to the fact that there is a considerable distance from us and civilization. But it is one thing that stands out to a lot of us. Perhaps in the years to come, when Abu Dhabi becomes more developed and those museums are completed, the campus will be surrounded with people from all over the world and small businesses that don’t require us to take a shuttle so packed that we need to pull that awkward extra seat in the middle of the aisle down. When you look out your window and see sand for miles right outside the campus, just imagine what coffee shops, convenience stores, fresh food markets, pubs, creperies and other food places could take it’s place.
Key Bowl
Imagine this:
You’re coming home after a long day, and as soon as you enter you place your keys in a bowl by your door. But this is no ordinary bowl. The very second your keys touch the bowl, your lights turn on!
Well I’ve made something like that on a much smaller scale.
I’ve made a bowl that has nearly two conductive halves that, when connected with something that can conduct electricity, closes the circuit and turns on the LED. Kind of looks like this:
I know, not the fanciest looking bowl out there. But it works! And I can see it being useful to many people.
Here’s a video to prove it:
Update: The blue wire in the video was an extra unnecessary wire between the red wire and the LED. I have since removed it. Please ignore it as the following section does not acknowledge it. Thank you.
The way it works is actually very simple, and I’m sure you all could figure it out. But I’ll explain it anyways.
First things first, you set up the RedBoard and connect the power and ground wires.
Then I place a resistor there to decrease the Voltage to the green wire which is connected to one half of the plate:
The Aluminum foil was the most versatile conductive material I could find, so it serves my purpose well. I left a gap in between the two aluminum foil halves so we are left with an open circuit that would need the keys (or any other conductive material) to close. The other half has a red wire that connects back to the bread board.
The red wire is hooked up to the same row where the LED is and continues to the black wire that connects to ground, indicating the end of our circuit.
So all we really need for the Greenies to reach the party are the car keys. Give em the car keys and they get ballistic and immediately power up the LED.