Category: Education
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LED Christmas tree with gifts, controlled via Wi-Fi.
Introduction My son Alexey suggested making a tree out of LEDs to decorate the hallway. Naturally, it should blink. Well, dad thought and thought… We made it using ESP8266 (in the ESP-201 version), multi-colored LEDs, powerful transistors (obtained from fluorescent lamp ballasts), resistors, a couple of connectors from floppy disks. Alexey helped solder the LEDs,…
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Educational project: recording animation on metro cards
We did this project together with my son Nikolai. I helped with the initial stage of assembling the device, Nikolai did the Python programming. Hardware The project is made on Raspberry Pi B+, NFC sensor from ELECHOUSE based on PN532 chip, LED matrix 8*8 based on MAX7219. The matrix is connected via SPI interface, libraries…
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Robot from a vacuum cleaner
The project was conceived for joint work with my children: Nikolai (12 years old) and Alexey (8 years old). In an attempt to interest the children in something educational, I bought Strela (Arduino Leonardo) and RaspberryPi B+ boards for experiments. After some torment, Strela was able to befriend the children’s Scratch development environment. (The torment…
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