Posted April 18, 2014 by Chris

"This system is based on minimizing the differences in the input and output ‘languages’ used in various musical electronic formats. This means finding a way to allow free communication between logic, analog and eventually digital electronics. We are working to achieve this by finding a middle ground between these mediums where signal format and amplitude can be shared freely with minimal need for translators and adaptors."

Posted April 17, 2014 by Chris

This week we’ll turn to take a look at a very important concept of Polling vs. Interrupts in our new course: An Introduction To Microcontrollers. Here’s an overview of the lesson:

"In order to interface to the analog world, microcontrollers often have an internal analog-to-digital converter. In this lesson, we will test the converter to understand how it works."

Posted April 16, 2014 by Chris

"A FPGA based design with a soft CPU and USB device interface implemented in Verilog. A small USB stack implements a virtual serial port over USB, but could be extended to support other class drivers such as Audio or HID. This board is form factor compatible with the Bus Pirate v3.5 case"

Posted April 14, 2014 by Chris

"This weekend I finally knocked out the final hardware config for me to consider the ‘Raspberry FM’ project complete. What is this project exactly? It’s an experiment I gave myself to combine a Raspberry Pi, Makey Makey, MicroRAX, and MPlayer to create an auto-on internet radio player. I called it ‘Raspberry FM’ after a combination of the Raspberry Pi, and Soma FM, my favorite internet radio station."

Posted April 12, 2014 by Chris

"Often we don’t care about our posture which can result in back pain and worse. If someone tells you to sit upright this is easy to do, but it won’t hold on for more than a few minutes. Now wouldn’t it be great to have a device that can remind you to improve your posture?"

Posted April 10, 2014 by Chris

Now for some real fun, we’ll take a look at how to convert from Analog to Digital in our new course: An Introduction To Microcontrollers. Here’s an overview of the lesson:

"In order to interface to the analog world, microcontrollers often have an internal analog-to-digital converter. In this lesson, we will test the converter to understand how it works."

Posted April 8, 2014 by Chris

"…I decided that I would create electronic fireflies as one of my gifts for family. I also decided that I would try to create these on their own dedicated PCBs and housings."

Posted April 7, 2014 by Chris

"This is a simple walk through on attempting to build a quick ‘inverse-panorama’ camera jig for time lapse photography."

Posted April 6, 2014 by Chris

" I started generating concepts for a small robot late in 2007. Once I had finally settled on what I was going to build, work started on my robot in the summer of 2007. This page is devoted to the robot I ended up creating. Since then, it has undergone several revisions, reflecting my increasing knowledge and skills from my coursework."

Posted April 5, 2014 by Chris

"As I started to get into multi-rotor aircraft, I came across the KKMulticopter platform as a good way to build inexpensive practice aircraft. As I looked at the design, I realized that it would be pretty easy to adapt it to a two-prop tilt-rotor design, but before I could begin coding the software for it, they released a firmware for just that! When I saw this video, I knew I was going to have to build one… and that I would use it for evil."