Posted July 12, 2013 by Chris

“OpenSCB is still a project under heavy development. Its goal is to create a fully open source servo controller. That means that we have designed a board with all the hardware to interface with classic RC servos, AX-12/AX-18 servos, openservo and more… It’s using a powerfull 32-bits microcontroller and it has a USB port for programming and control with a PC.”

Posted July 11, 2013 by Chris

“Last year, before the holidays, my friend and I had an idea to make a device, which will notify police via GSM if someone breaks into the house….This description has the resulting device which is tested and works well, and it is also relatively inexpensive, as compared with similar products on the market.”

Posted July 10, 2013 by Chris

“I originally wrote this for an Altera development board which was actually a TQFP breakout board with the chip soldered onto it. This was fragile and poorly soldered so it fell apart after a while. I have now changed all the ROMs to be generic VHDL instead of LPM macros so it works with the Xilinx tools.”

Posted July 8, 2013 by Chris

“The purpose of this project was to design and implement a debugger for the ATmega644 that communicated through its JTAG interface and was capable of controlling program execution by setting breakpoints and accessing registers and memory.”

Posted July 7, 2013 by Chris

“This project measures the background radiation outside the house, and transmits it to a display station inside the house. The outside sensing unit is solar powered (but it doesn’t have to be), and should have a range of at least 50m.”

Posted July 6, 2013 by Chris

“In this article, i will use the PIC 16F1937, a powerful microcontroller with a 16-channel capacitance module. I will only use the 4 of them, but the idea to expand it to all 16 channels is the same.”

Posted July 5, 2013 by Chris

“If you ever wanted to integrate touch sensitivity into your project, this board could just do the trick. It’s a capacitive touch sensor. These sensors are used in our everyday consumer electronics like notebook trackpads, video game consoles, touchscreens…just to name a few.”

Posted July 4, 2013 by Chris

“This is a skin-detection based game of pong on a VGA monitor in which two players compete with one another to slip the ball past the other’s paddle towards the boundary. Each paddle follows the motion of a player’s hand in the vertical direction through an HTC 231x CCD camera.”

Posted July 3, 2013 by Chris

“The aim of this project was to get a decent pair of wireless headphones, without breaking the piggy bank. I’m talking decent, as in comfortable, good bass, good treble, good listening distance, battery lasts all day, etc.”

Posted July 2, 2013 by Chris

“Flying RC helicopter is really very exhilarating. Their versatility gives a RC pilot a complete access to the three-dimensional space in such a way that no other machines can! I have played RC helicopter for more than one year but still find that I have just learnt a few tricks that it can perform.”