Author: BogdanB
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LED Showpiece
This project was born from an idea that it would be helpful to have some kind of light/indication on desk at work as a hint for colleagues telling whether we’re currently busy with something critical, or they can freely approach and ask questions if needed. While there are available solutions we could buy for ~$50, it’s more…
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Brush Holder
Quick, simple, yet useful little project – my wife enjoys painting (and has a talent 🙂 ), thus I made this small brush holder to make it easier to swap between brushes while painting. This is not my original design – I’ve seen it somewhere on YouTube (but can’t seem to find the original link… sorry!). Holes…
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Crafts – Fairy Garden
This is a great project to make with your significant other, or kids. I know making it with my Wife was very entertaining! 😉 It’s a lot of fun, and the end result looks magical. It’s entirely based on a great tutorial made by DIY Perks: The complete process is very well explained. Including electronics part (super…
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OBD-II Car lights
I wanted to try something new – pull the data from car, and see what cool things can be done with it. The design for this project was inspired by TV show Knight Rider, with more modes, reading data directly from the car (through OBD-II port). Built in multiple modes: pre-defined animations, animations dependent on…
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Scribd.com – how to download a book
Today I’ve been looking for a manual online – turns out it was one of those not an easily obtainable manuals… The only place I could find it was at scribd.com. However, to be able to download the pdf, you either need to become a member, or upload some quality document yourself. I think especially…
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Cars – Exotics@RTC Season Opener 2016
The time has come – another season of Exotics @ Redmond Town Center has began! 🙂 One of the biggest car enthusiast gatherings on the west coast. Takes place on every sunny Saturday, just east from Seattle in Redmond, open for public (free), variety of interesting cars to see and passionate people to talk to. …
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Piano Tiles – Arduino Hack
Another game has been going viral recently – Piano Tiles. I tried playing it, and it sure is entertaining, but there’s no way I can beat some of my friends, they’re just too good (Sunny, I’m looking at you 🙂 ). Not willing to throw in a towel that easily, I employed robots to do…
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Arduino – Simple cat toys
Having few minutes of free time, and 2 cats looking at me suspiciously from the other end of living room , I made a simple toy using laser pointers and servos. They actually played with it for few minutes – success 🙂 Arduino Uno, servo (micro 9g), 5V laser pointer and kitchen paper towel roll is…
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Powershell – run as admin (elevated permissions)
Every now and then I find myself in need of running a powershell script with administrative privileges (i.e. to set a registry key). And since every time I end up doing a quick search, I thought I’ll keep this small snippet handy 🙂 Simply put this at the beginning of the .ps1 file, and…
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Crafts – Fairy Jar
This is a very simple project, yet fun activity to make it with your significant other or kids. And the end result is a quite unique decorative piece. Also – handmade and completely customizable! 🙂 You’ll need: styrofoam ball (can be purchased in craft stores), big jar with lid, moss, artificial flowers and decorative elements…
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