Off-Center is a sculptural lamp built from a stacked series of handmade ceramic forms, each illuminated by its own LED ring. At first glance, it looks like a tower of floating discs—soft, balanced, architectural. But the true experience lies in its shifting pulsing lights.
If you’ve ever wanted a sensor, button, or random Arduino event to kick off a real phone call, this project does exactly that. It uses an Arduino to talk to an Asterisk PBX over the network and tell it, “Hey, go call this number.”
Hangman is one of those simple word games that almost everyone knows, which makes it perfect for turning into a physical, interactive Arduino build. I wanted a quick project that blended analog input, digital input, display output, and small-scale game logic. The result was **Hangmanduino**, a tactile version of Hangman where you play using a knob and a button.
In many "Internet of Things" setups, microcontrollers handle sensors and actuators. Telephony systems like Asterisk are often kept separate. But I wanted to merge the two: letting a phone call trigger a physical piece of hardware.