Living in this era, where the pen drives has been a very common stuff in our daily life; you will have at least one or more pen drives for you own purpose, isn’t it? Since the creation of pen drives, the diskette has been rapidly substituted by it.

The reason why there are more and more people starting to use the pen drives because it’s easier to be carried due to its small size, unlike the old-fashioned diskette that will take up a lot of spaces! Furthermore, pen drives can also be act as the decoration to bring out your own personality as well.

For your information, the EnvStick is a cheap and homemade temperature sensor, where it can be easily plugs into a USB port without further modification. Beside that, it provides a simple way to collect a room’s ambient temperature. This EnvStick is Windows and Linux software compatible.

The EnvStick will show up as a serial port - a COM port on Windows boxes. As a result, you will need to wait a specified number of seconds to allow the program to list out a temperature reading and the whole process will repeat again!

Every person might have different kind of decorations in their houses; some of them would prefer some stylish and sophisticated decors, while other might prefer classical and contemporary art decorations.

No matter what type of people you’re categorized with, most of you here will definitely love this stuff, and it’s name is called “Mood Lamp”.

Talking about the Mood Lamp, do you mind to DIY an LED Mood Lamp and use it as a sensual add-on for your room that will absolutely impress your loved ones or guests?

Well, you might think it’s going to be a very tough project here, where you’re might be wrong in the very first place! The high power Led mood light is based on PIC16F628 and the ability of this MCU is to produce Pulse Width Modulation or PWM pulses.

This means, by only varying pulse width, you can easily produce over millions of color combinations by using only the three basic red, green and blue colors! Therefore, with only one RGB Led, it’s capable to produce a rainbow of fading colors simultaneously.

And, with the little of four switches, you can handle all function of the lamp, whether you can choose fading or jumping between colors; slow or fast changing of colors and much more!