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How do you make any electronics project better? Add LEDs. How do you make it infinitely better? Add infinite LEDs! Ok, so we can’t actually add that many LEDs to a project (not to mention the mathematical impossibility), but we can bounce light around endlessly with the infinity mirror effect for a far out light show that makes for a psychedelic addition to any space. So today we’ll be making an infinity polyhedron out of addressable RGB LEDs and a 3D-printed frame. Connect with DJ on element14:

How do you make any electronics project better? Add LEDs. How do you make it infinitely better? Add infinite LEDs! Ok, so we can’t actually add that many LEDs to a project (not to mention the mathematical impossibility), but we can bounce light around endlessly with the infinity mirror effect for a far out light show that makes for a psychedelic addition to any space. So today we’ll be making an infinity polyhedron out of addressable RGB LEDs and a 3D-printed frame. Connect with DJ on element14:

In part 2 of our quest to build the most Useless IoT Device Ever, Matt--jealous of Hawaii's perfect waves--decides to add flight tracking capabilities to the Rock. Except that the flights he's tracking aren't his own! The AirborneSurfer pulls his namesakes together to build a device that will alert him whenever someone else's plane lands at the destination he'd rather be! Connect with Matt on the element14 community: http://bit.ly/2AUNjjL

Matt is a huge fan of the Twilight Zone, so for Halloween, he's decided to build a classic prop from the old series with a modern twist! The original Mystic Seer was a coin-operated fortune telling machine created for the 1960 episode "Nick of Time". Will this new, electronic fortune teller actually predict the future?

From the maker that brought us Virtual Reality Doom, Clem now brings us an up to date and upgraded Raspberry Pi project in the form of the open source clone of Quake 3 Arena: Open Arena! Using an Arduino and radio frequency communications, Clem makes it almost wireless in its ability to transmit the orientation data to the Raspberry Pi in realtime oer 5.8Ghz! Can you help Clem finish off the project? Find out how on the element14 Community!

From the maker that brought us Virtual Reality Doom, Clem now brings us an up to date and upgraded Raspberry Pi project in the form of the open source clone of Quake 3 Arena: Open Arena! Using an Arduino and radio frequency communications, Clem makes it almost wireless in its ability to transmit the orientation data to the Raspberry Pi in realtime oer 5.8Ghz! Can you help Clem finish off the project? Find out how on the element14 Community!

Can you create a project that could change someone's life for the better? Join the team as they motorise a trike with safety mechanisms using Arduino to help improve those with multiple sclerosis to be more mobile in their neighbourhood. Adding a DC motor, front collision detection, a smart brake and evening a garage door opener and calorie burning detection! Helping to be mobile and healthy! Thanks to the Arduino MKR 1000 IoT Bundle and a lot of mechanical hard work, you can find the build materials and talk with the team on the element14 community.

Almost everything is connected to the internet now, your fridge, your child, your car and your pet. In industrial environments the internet of things can be very useful! But, what could be the most useless IoT device? Well we have an ESP8266, arduino and the internet - what could go wrong? Let us know what your ideas are for the most useless or useful internet of things device could be on the element14 Community!

Almost everything is connected to the internet now, your fridge, your child, your car and your pet. In industrial environments the internet of things can be very useful! But, what could be the most useless IoT device? Well we have an ESP8266, arduino and the internet - what could go wrong? Let us know what your ideas are for the most useless or useful internet of things device could be on the element14 Community!

R.O.B. was a Robotic Operating Buddy, created as a companion for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), now far beyond their end of life, it's time to bring back the little robot companion with the help of a Raspberry Pi. In this episode, we tear down R.O.B. and implement a Raspberry Pi, motor and voice control with a miniature projector to create a motorised retro gaming setup themed appropriately for the earlier days of home gaming! Find out more about the build on the element14 Community!

First manufacturers stopped you from adding an sdcard, then they took away our ability to replace the battery! Now the headphone jack is replaced solely with Bluetooth. It's time to take back control and produce your own cell phone, and you can using a Raspberry Pi and ATMega32u4! What alterations would you make to your own mobile phone? Let the team know on the element14 Community!

Clem ramps up CNC control by taking apart his CNC Router to create something new! So out with the old GRBL controller board and in with the Arduino Mega 2560 and RAMPs to create a CNC pyrography wood burner with the Marlin firmware and appropriate power supply and limit switches, though it's not without its difficulties! What do you think? Let the team know on the element14 Community.

Clem was so pre-occupied with whether he could, he didn't stop to think whether or not he should! Most prehistoric creatures should probably stay in the ground, but with the use of resin, silicone and polymer clay Clem brings an anomalocaris back to live using motor control and an Arduino Nano! What animatronics have you made? What would you do differently? Let us know on the element14 Community.

Whether you call them "blinkies", "throwies", "sparklers", or anything else, LED art is an interesting nexus of street art and hacker culture. Events such as DEFCON even have exhibitions for the most creative blinky designs while maker storefronts sell them in every conceivable shape. In this video, Matt collaborates with his friends at the National Upcycled Computing Collective to build a solar-powered "smart" blinky that not only looks cool at night, but contributes its computing power to a worldwide network that's looking for disease cures, extraterrestrial intelligence, rogue asteroids, and more! Let the Matt know if you’ve done any Rube Goldberg projects using the Raspberry Pi or Solar Power on the element14 community

Whether you're saving up for a rainy day or you're adding that bit of realism to your mame arcade cabinet to handle those extra coins for credits, join the bald engineer as he adds capacitive sensing to organise and sort coins using Arduino and Texas Instruments microcontrollers helped out by an oscilloscope. Do you think it works better as a coin bank or useful in a vending machine? Let the team know how you've used capacitive sensing or coin returns on the element14 Community.