Addohms-Shorts on AddOhms by Bald Engineer

Fix a Laser Cutter with a Light Saber

Sun, 29 Jan 2017 23:33:00 +0000

My new laser cutter didn’t seem to work. I tried all of the usual troubleshooting steps. Then, I got the idea to use a special kind of tool.

Behind the scenes

All of the sound effects you hear are ones that I added: “in post.” The footsteps, the laser cutter, and (obviously) the lightsaber were all recorded separately.

I used the Adobe After Effects plugin Saber from Video Copilots to do the glow. If you watch carefully, you’ll see that it even reflects off my glasses and laser cutter!

Post Your Code (In the Style of "Let it Be")

Sat, 31 May 2014 08:51:00 +0000

When asking questions in a forum, like the Arduino forum, it is important to Post Your Code! It is so difficult to help without seeing what you intended.

This was a team effort from the members of the Arduino forum.

First, all of the people who help answer questions, of which, there are too many to list.

The real credit goes to wildbill and Grumpy_Mike. wildbill wrote the original lyrics and Grumpy_Mike put them to music, lending his voice. I (JamesC4S) just did the video animation.