It is a pretty common first project to use an Arduino (or similar) to blink an LED. Which, of course, brings taunts of: you could have used a 555! You can, of course, also use any sort of ...

As a perfect example, these LED “blinking eyes” were created by [Will Moser]. Using nothing more exotic than some bare LEDs, an Arduino, and a cardboard box, these little gadgets can quickly ...

but succeded in making the LED eyes blink, look around, and, of course, glare, in a loop sequence. The mod works using a MAX7219 chip and Arduino Uno ATmega328 board, which control the two 8×8 ...