Chocolate Box with Arduino-Controlled Lights

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Mother’s Day is coming up quick, and if you’re still wondering what to get your mom, this chocolate box LED Arduino hack might be just the thing if you’re handy with a soldering iron.

The project by Dmitriy Abaimov uses an ATTiny13, a very tiny microcontroller, along with 10 LEDS tucked ...
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UC Berkeley Student Builds Awesome Automated Dorm Room

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College dorm life can be cramped and miserable, but one UC Berkeley freshman,  Derek Low, has built an amazing automated dorm room, which he call’s the B.R.A.D, or Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm.

Low’s lights and curtains are controlled by his iPhone, his iPad, and voice commands on his laptop. At 8:00 ...
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