https://electricsuds.com/post/65463408718/vending-machine-at-syn-shop
While I lived in Las Vegas, I was a member of the local makerspace, SynShop. There, someone had donated a broken vending machine. We decided to replace the electronics with newer relays and a Raspberry Pi computer. There was a need to provide parts and kits to members, and getting this machine online and accepting credit cards would be a big help. For the display, we used a local webserver and a headless chromium browser.
https://electricsuds.com/post/78634595423/secret-project-light-up-hoodie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhZ_4RfzDQ
This was a gift to my niece. She's a Star Wars fan so I got her a R2D2 hoodie and sewed some NeoPixel LEDs around the inside of the hood, conencted it to a wearable Arduino and ran a program to light it up.
https://electricsuds.com/tagged/pulse-sensor
You know the classic idiom, to wear your hear on your sleeve. This was an artistic and technological take on that. I took a classic white T-shirt and printed an 8-bit heart on it. I put some NeoPixel LEDs on the underside and connected an Arduino microcontroller and heartbeat sensor. This T-shirt reflects the user's heartbeat to the public. Quite literally, wearing your heart on your sleeve shirt.
https://electricsuds.com/post/153379496855/righteous-techno-gardening
https://electricsuds.com/page/1
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO0qSTN8PSdMVKDxLla56sxk-PHejpYXA
Gardening has always been an issue for me. I'm always traveling and when I skip a weekend of gardening care - my plants die! The big idea was to keep plants watered and fed automatically. I used a microcontroller for soil moisture sensing and water relay control, connected to a Raspberry Pi for internet access, to control water and light schedules and monitor metrics.
https://imgur.com/gallery/YZEi2
I wanted to get into woodworking and this was a project I had in mind for a long time. Having a touchscreen in a coffee table allows me to look things up while I watch TV, or search for information while I play video games. I was able to make it the way I wanted, with drawers, the table top lifter and even a built-in electrical outlet.
https://www.thingiverse.com/vicbotnik/designs
I have a 3D printer and on occasion, I need to design something for myself. This is a collection of models I've designed that I've made public.