This is Frankie.
I bought him at target on sale after Halloween.
I then decided to wire him up to my computer's printer port
And control him using a program I wrote.
He is still not perfectly synched
And I had to overlay the audio over a webcam recording
So the synching is even more off than it should be.
I decided to have him sing a short snippet of Jingle Bells
Since the Halloween season had already passed.

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These are my stylish dual RGB LED glasses.
They are controlled and powered over an audio cable connected
between the glasses and a computer's serial port.
They do flicker because of multiple PWM on the pic, but
they are still pretty fun to play with using the little program I wrote.
The main purpose of these was an idea I had awhile back
about doing something like this so that as a story was told,
you would be more able to visualize the images because a coordinating color
would be shining on your closed eyelids.

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This is a neat little program I wrote for my friends on LD4all.com
it is based on a lucid dreaming technique called FILD,
where you move your fingers while you fall asleep and then do a reality check.
This program senses mouse movements and then gives an alert after some time
has passed after the mouse has stopped moving.
This is probably the prettiest program I have made.

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This is my RGB LED lamp that can create any color light I want.
It uses an interesting control system, where each knob controlled
two colors' brightness. This made the colors merge better.
It also has some awesome built in speakers.
I have recently fixed it so that it works more safely now.
Last time I thought I had burned out the LEDs,
but it turned out to be the power supply.
I have replaced the adapter and have the voltage better regulated.


Note: I am in the middle of really improving this project
-I will make a page dedicated to it once it is completed.

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This is my homemade DDR pad.
I found a free program called StepMania that is like DDR.
It wasn't very fun without a pad, so I decided to make my own
by wiring up a couple of pieces of paper with two strips of aluminum foil
to act as a switch connected to an old keyboard circuit.
The shoes were at first covered in aluminum foil and then coke can metal.
The metal on the shoes would complete the circuit on the pads.
Unfortunately it was just paper and connected with alligator clips
so it fell apart pretty quickly, but it was a lot of fun while it worked.

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This is what remains of my LED candle.
It worked using a pic16F84A microchip programmed in picBasic.
While it was working the LEDs were lit randomly
and no two LEDs were ever off at the same time.
Unfortunately, I ended up dismantling it(mainly taking out the microchip)
in order to use the parts in different projects.