Posted April 30, 2012 by Chris

“An ongoing personal project to create a homemade, wrist-based sensor that captures the fine-grained gestural movements of a person’s hand and fingers (think “Minority Report”). The goal is to keep the sensor simple and inexpensive by making up the difference in the software. Everything will ultimately be open-sourced.”

Posted April 13, 2012 by Chris

“This how-to takes you through all the steps of making your own arduino on a perfboard or perfduino! Arduino microcontrollers are great for learning about physical computing and are very useful for rapid prototyping. Arduino’s simple programming language makes it a favorite of hobbyists and diy-ers around the world. Because arduino boards range in price from 30 to 70 dollars, it can be very cost effective to make your own.”

Posted March 31, 2012 by Chris

“The AVRcam is a small, real-time image processing engine capable of tracking colorful objects. The system was specifically designed to provide hobbyists with a vision system that can be easily added to their projects (robot, security, monitoring, etc).”

Posted March 16, 2012 by Chris

“Making a circuit with a microcontroller, battery, and LEDs connected by copper tape.” No secrets here, just a very unique way to use hot glue and copper tape to build your own circuit board on a piece of wood for the world to see.

Posted March 10, 2012 by Chris

“Turn an old digital camera into a time lapse camera using an arduino, a relay, and an open source software program called makeAVI (windows). To modify the camera I disassembled the camera cover and removed the button that activates the shutter.”

Posted March 4, 2012 by Chris

“The Plushbot name illustrates the devices’ hybrid nature, which combines robotic parts like Arduino microcontrollers, conductive thread, a battery and various sensors with plush materials like stuffing and felt. The result: soft Plushbot toys that can be programmed to play music, change color (via LED lights) and move.”

Posted February 28, 2012 by Chris

“This microcontroller project is another version of a persistence of vision or POV toy. It has 8 LEDs and it is powered by ATtiny2313 (AVR microcontroller by Atmel) operating at 2 x AA batteries. This is a tiny toy and it can be carried easily inside your pockets.”

Posted February 26, 2012 by Chris

“An intervalometer is a device that sends out a signal at regular intervals. When hooked up to a camera, they can be used to take time lapse images, bracket exposure lengths and precisely time long exposure images (over 30 seconds) that the built-in timer on the camera cannot normally generate. When hooked up to a flash, they can be used to create a strobe effect. Being this useful, there are many different DIY projects to make them.”

Posted February 22, 2012 by Chris

“Description: This spectaculously amazorbing ball that will mesmerise all who look at it, caturday will no longer be the same ! The Specs: There are 384 LEDs all individually controllable and programmable, it is compatible with the freely available Arduino IDE and AVR Studio, comes with sample source code and patterns to get you started, as well as being preprogrammed for instant blinky fun.”

Posted February 15, 2012 by Chris

“This project is aimed at generating an VGA monitor (basic 31.5kHz horizontal, 70Hz/400line or 60Hz/480line vertical) compatible video signal, without using an specialised hardware VLSI video generator chip (hardwired limited, not available any more), nor 100s of TTL chips. All is done in software, running as vertical “microcode” on an single Atmel AVR microcontroller chip: an ATmega32, 16MHz, 32k Flash, 2k SRAM, 40pin, 32IOs.”