Posted June 14, 2014 by Chris

"This device will work like the normal pickit2. It will work for any pic (5 and 3.3V devices); No mosfets no complex, only one voltage boost circuit and you can program the target without a PC."

Posted June 13, 2014 by Chris

"To test whether this was feasable I decided to create small brakout boards for a multiplexer and an atmega. I managed to get a friend interested in this, so together with Marty I designed some simple 1 to 1 pin breakouts for the two ICs."

Posted June 11, 2014 by Chris

"Made some great progress on my PCB CNC mill in the past week. For our new readers: I built a machine, that manipulates copper-covered board under a Dremel rotary cutting tool to carve out electronic circuit boards to support our rapid prototyping capabilities. "

Posted June 10, 2014 by Chris

"The Oscilloscope Watch has the features of a modern watch (time, calendar, alarm, etc…) along with those of an oscilloscope, waveform generator, logic analyzer, protocol sniffer, and frequency counter. It was developed by Gabriel Anzziani, the founder and CEO of Gabotronics."

Posted June 9, 2014 by Chris

"Today I fabricated the PCB for GNUduino (Arduino made with gEDA). I used screen printing to transfer the PCB layout. Screen printing is another way to transfer the PCB layout to the copper clad instead of the conventional toner transfer method."

Posted June 8, 2014 by Chris

"Here is my project on interfacing of SD Card. microSD cards are available very cheap nowadays, a great option for having a huge memory in any embedded system project. It is compatible with SPI bus, so the interfacing is easy. SD card adapters are also easily available in market, one can easily make a bread-board adapter by soldering few pins on it."

Posted June 7, 2014 by Chris

"The Strophonion is an electronic instrument which was developed and built by STEIM from 2010 until 2011. It belongs to the instrument group, that is usually subsumed under the term live-electronics using gestural controllers. The following blog gives an insight into the entire process of developing and building the Strophonion from the beginning."

Posted June 6, 2014 by Chris

"While many POV projects have been designed before, they tend to be very static. Often they only display one image or animation and usually have no interactivity. We set out to make a very modular multipurpose design. Our original goal was to make two different LED arrays, a 2D version with RGB LEDs and a 3D version that uses monochrome LEDs."

Posted June 5, 2014 by Chris

"Build this single-sided Xilinx CPLD board at home and experiment with CPLDs and hardware description language (HDL). The source files for the project are in open source KiCad format so you can modify the circuit diagram and PCB if needed."

Posted June 4, 2014 by Chris

"They are so dang cute. If you have ever seen the cool promo for the Necomimi Neurowear wearable set of cat ears that respond to brainwaves, you would want a set too. But it seems they may be vaporware since it hasn’t materialized on the market yet, not that I would be able to afford them though. Necomimi or nekomimi is Japanese for ‘cat ears’."