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Megan40 - Picaxe 08 Firefly

Attracts FireFlies into your garden
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This is robotic Firefly based on a picaxe 08 using UltraViolet leds as sensors. Flight School. Here you can see her Big Flattering Stereo eyes, they are simply … Read more
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Megan40 - UltraViolet Detectors ( IR is going out of fashion )

By Gareth

May 8, 2011
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Megan40 - UltraViolet Detectors ( IR is going out of fashion )

This is my latest FireFly codename Megan40 ...... because she sports 40MΩ feedback resistors

If you need detectors that are not affected by ambient light then i highly recommend using UltraViolet LEDs as detectors.

The detect circuitry is finished - next part is to shoehorn the picaxe 08 onto the back to control servo and UV glowtube.

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Mr. Firefly - Let it glow! [video now on youtube and youku available]

Navigates around via ultrasound, reacts on brightness, emits blue cold light by chemiluminescence
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This project shall be another step to combine robotics and chemistry. Mr. Firefly is able to emits blue cold light by chemiluminescence. For this attempt, luminol … Read more
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