This part of the site will have some of my electronics projects I've built lately. I have a "Lab" in the creepy basement that I have my electronics parts, power supplies, and tools centralized and it's also where I do my 3D printing. I've including URL links to properly credit the authors of the projects where I used some of their components or software code, but over time the normal update cycles for software could render them nonoperational. Good luck. Pic on the left shows one of the three Arduino microcomputers running the flight simulator I built.
This is an Adafruit.com build (Pi Eyes) that I've used for Halloween decorating. There are a handful of different eyes (regular, snake, etc.) that you can use. I plan to make about a 1/2 dozen of these to put around the yard like creepy humanoid rats hiding in the bushes. But for now, I use two 24" displays in separate windows at the top of my house to make the house look alive. Very cool effect (short video used for this page banner). I put my Pi4 in a replica IBM PS/2 enclosure for this project.
Another Pi project that I use on Halloween. I put a motion sensor in a skull with an ethernet attachment to a PI inside a water resistant box. The Pi senses the motion as people approach the skull for trick-or-treating, and then plays a random (1 of 6 currently) .wav files of people screaming. It also flashes two sets of lights -- in my case a purple and orange set of "Christmas" light sets. It wakes people up for sure and adds another sound dimension to the festival display.
I needed a clock in my lab and thought, why not build something fancy. I found the plans (electronics and 3D STL files) online and made this. The 3D prints took about 2 days, and getting the correct electronic components took another month. Date and time are kept in sync via Wi-Fi on the mini ESP32 board (Coded using Arduino IDE).
Not wanting to put a tennis ball at the end of a string to let the driver know when and where to properly park the car in the garage, I decided on the overkill method; put a traffic light in the garage. This proved challenging for me as you need to know when the door is open/opening/closing, are you leaving or entering the garage, and where to stop. I got a real traffic light for cheap and started on the Arduino (C++ code), relays and sensors to get this thing to work. It's damn cool. The picture to the left shows the guts of the setup inside the light. The snap to the right is a clip from a video of the traffic light with completed wiring to power, door sensor and the distance sensor (black box on the little ladder). I can switch modes from run to program where I set the distances for green/yellow/red light switching using the box as well.