DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 4–Tube Construction Okay, so now that I had acquired all of my materials for my bubbler, written the code to control it, and designed the base, it was time to construct the actual tube. This turned out to be the part that has been the most frustrating and required the most experimentation so far. Laser Cutting the End Cap […]
DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 3–Designing the Base So as you can imagine, a tube full of water that is four inches wide and six feet tall is not very stable. I needed a way to: Provide more stability to the bubble tube when it is standing upright House the NeoPixels and the air pump and all their tubing and wiring Make it […]
DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 2–Programming In this post, I’m going to describe the coding involved in creating my DIY bubble tube. In case you missed it, Part 1 of this tutorial describes this project in more detail and gives a provisional shopping list of parts you’d need to buy to do it yourself. I may amend the shopping list later, […]
Finally! Free SSL Certs!!! Let’s Encrypt! OMFG! From the why-the-hell-did-this-take-so-long department, I bring you an exciting announcement: you may never, ever have to pay for a trusted SSL certificate for your website again! E-ver! I’d like to introduce you to Let’s Encrypt. From their website: Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. Let’s Encrypt […]
