Posted September 25, 2012 by Chris

“I’ve long had a fascination for renewable energy – be it from wind, solar, or hydro-electric sources. Perhaps it’s just my penchant for penny-pinching, but the idea of free and unlimited energy is something I find quite appealing. So, in February of 2009, I bought my first SUN 90W, 18VDC photovoltaic (PV) panel.”

Posted September 24, 2012 by Chris

“Well, living together with a person comes with some responsibilities that are to be tackled. Like watering plants. My friend I’m sharing an apartment with was leaving for a couple of weeks and has burdened me with a task to take care of several pots with alien life forms.”

Posted September 23, 2012 by Chris

“Inductors are not the most popular parts in constructions.
The bad reputation comes from the lack of good measuring tools.
This project will explain how to build a very accurate and simple inductance, and capacitance measuring tool. ”

Posted September 22, 2012 by Chris

“"0’baka Project" means a stupid project. This project is to make things which is not art and which is not usable. Now, I am making Arduino skeleton by using steel wires.”

Posted September 21, 2012 by Chris

“I had seen Roo Reynolds talking about hacking his doorbell to get it onto Twitter and as our doorbell is a bit rubbish I thought this seemed like a good project…I decided to start off with the physical/audible side of things and then later move on to pushing notifications out to laptops on the local network or beyond.”

Posted September 20, 2012 by Chris

“In this article we’ll explore how to output VGA signals from an Arduino UNO by using the timer interrupt to keep output in sync with the exact timing required by the VGA protocol. The end result will be a very empty ‘main’ loop in our software and a lot of interrupt code that handles everything else. The Arduino is only running at 16 MHz so doing VGA with interrupts on it is really pushing the limits!”

Posted September 19, 2012 by Chris

“With the relative complexity of today’s electronics, it’s not feasible to start from scratch; you need good building blocks to implement your vision. You’ll want to use commercial off- the-shelf components as much as possible and you most likely don’t want to be bound to a bulky PC…So how do we get started prototyping our ideas with the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet? For electronics concepts: enter Arduino.”

Posted September 18, 2012 by Chris

“Using a arduino and some resistor to work as a 8bit DAC, so we can make some waveform form it , build a Arduino simple signal generator. what you need just a Arduino, a protoshild and some resistor.”

Posted September 17, 2012 by Chris

“This article will have an overview of our school project (term 2/6). There are three heads on my group. Our goal with this project is to make a mechanical hand which can move it fingers like a real human hand, electronically controlled. Even point at, pick and crush things!”

Posted September 16, 2012 by Chris

“"0’baka Project" means a stupid project. This project is to make things which is not art and which is not usable.
Now, I am making One-chip Arduino ver. 2.0. It is equipped with USB interface, and to be able to upload sketches from Arduino IDE directly.”