Electronic Invincibility Starmen

Electronic Invincibility Starmen

Four miniature LEGO replicas of the iconic invincibility stars from the Super Mario Bros. franchise, wired with a custom microcontroller circuit to make the eyes blink and to play audio clips. I’ve programmed the chips with an Arduino Uno; the microcontroller is an ATtiny85, which has music generated by the Arduino melody library. Three of … Read More

Electronic DL-44 Blaster Mk.2

Electronic DL-44 Blaster Mk.2

Based on my previous version of the electronic DL-44 blaster from Star Wats, this revised LEGO model uses its own custom circuit board with a microcontroller that I programmed with Arduino. Like its predecessor, this project was tempered with its fair share of difficulties and stressful troubleshooting during its construction — especially since I had … Read More