Tag: Low Power

Evil Eye Tech Experiment

Evil Eye Tech Experiment

This wasn’t so much a useful project as it was an experiment with some technologies I’ve wanted to play with. Capacitive Touch sensing LED Multiplexing PCB Art   I thought I could combine them to make a stylized Turkish “Evil Eye.”  It would: Sense when you […]

Long Distance Balloon Tracking

Long Distance Balloon Tracking

After I did the 100,00ft balloon photography, I wanted to make further use of the APRS radio transmission tracking technology.   I became interested in “Pico” balloons, which I’d seen references to, which consist of: A small battery-powered “tracker” flight computer A small balloon Time […]