Do-it-yourself projects and technology updates

Color Changing Orb Alarm Clock

Filed under: Uncategorized — Greg Lipscomb on January 9, 2007 @ 5:50 pm



Zedomax has sent another cool project. Here is a color changing Orb alarm clock that outputs your favorite Christmas jingle. The orb changes with the beat of the music, and it will wake you up as well.

Okay, we have seen some really cool Light Orbs while trying to make this Music Syncing Light Orb Alarm Clock.

We started with Tod’s creation and soon realize that 1 LED will not be bright enough in slightest light conditions though his Light Orb is tight let us say.

So we checked out RGB lights at Hackedgadgets.com. Which is cool and uses 4 Red, 3 Green, and 3 Blue LEDs.

Well during our google search for Light Orb HOWTOs, we came to the Ambient Devices schematic and their technical notes. Well it says that with the right voltage, you don’t need to use resistors….

We wanted to create a Light Orb that would be a mix of Light Orb, some cheap Piezo music, and an alarm clock. We figured these would do very good Christmas presents for our friends and family.

Check out this cool project here.

Well, happy new years to you all. I am sorry that I have been so bad about updating. Third year of medical school has turned out to be different than I have thought it would be. I am in Neurology right now, and have been keeping pretty busy. It was nice to have my first Christmas with my new wife.

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