00702, Fibonacci clock

So Rob (the one from work) sent me an email to say that he'd seen a Fibonacci Clock online, saying (or typing) "Reckon you could make me one of these?".

He didn't really mean it.

But I made him one anyway:

 

 

Arduino Nano and NeoPixels with capacitive touch sensor.

It's not really a clock as such, more a timer. You twiddle the knob to zero (all white) and touch the top of the box, at which point it counts up in five second increments. You set the time with the knob, touch the top of the box and it counts down to zero. You twiddle the knob while it's timing and everything stops.

Good thing he didn't ask me to make heavy ordinance. Can't help myself, can I?

00701, Secret Santa 2015

So Christmas came round again, which was nice.

My first thought was that I should probably not bother this time, but within a day I was lost.

Perhaps it would be better if they just told me about it the day before the office party, that way, I'd have no other option but to buy something instead of doing this:

 

 

 



 

Arduino and capacitive touch with 3 groups of LEDs dimmed by PWM.

Possibly the strangest thing is that I'd never before met the lady who got it. I met her at the do and subsequently never saw her again.

Naturally I wouldn't countenance doing it again. Probably.