Posted February 12, 2014 by Chris

"The USnooBie is a microcontroller kit that does not require any sort of AVR programmer or USB-to-serial converters to load and run compiled code. It’s hardware design allows the user to develop low cost USB devices with Atmel’s AVR ATmega microcontrollers. It can also be used to develop projects which are not USB devices. It is even compatible with Arduino."

Posted February 6, 2014 by Chris

"A polar plotter is a plotter with a rotating, extendable arm. Its characteristics differ greatly from those of a traditional plotter, which in most areas have a superior design. You could say the polar plotter is more portable or something, but mainly I made this one because it was more of a challenge."

Posted February 5, 2014 by Chris

"So I had an idea…’3D RGB LED Pixel Cubes…’ *sweeping hand wave for effect*… I think that combination of words pretty much sums it, yeah? The basic idea is to take a traditional 2D pixel and turn it into a 3D form. I haven’t really seen this very basic concept… but haven’t Googled it to death…"

Posted January 28, 2014 by Chris

"There are many methods capacitive sensors can be produced. A simple one way to form an on-off output is by using two layers and a spacer in between. Through a voltage to conductive objects causes positive and negative charges to collect on each object."

Posted January 26, 2014 by Chris

"An Arduino board can communicate with the Raspberry Pi via a serial over USB connection. This creates a virtual serial interface, which it uses like a normal interface, reading and writing to the serial device file."

Posted January 24, 2014 by Chris

"So I decided it was time to build a kegerator…More importantly, because I’m a nerd and I’ve never worked with an Arduino I decided it would be fun to play with one. I ended up with an Arduino controlling an LCD for each of the 3 taps I installed, displaying what beer is on tap and how much beer is left in the keg."

Posted January 18, 2014 by Chris

"Here we show a little Theremin module which plugs onto a Arduino Board that gives out the tune to a speaker or puts out the tune as control signal like MIDI, Servo etc. We were using this device not only as a musical instrument, various kinds of proximity sensors, pointing devices or as interface in combination with Processing, Max or Pd have been build with this technique."

Posted January 6, 2014 by Chris

"My last project is an audio spectrum analyzer. The work has been done using a MSGEQ7 integrated. The result is shown using an 2X16 LCD display. The bars are built using defined characters.
The chip only gives 7 info of frequency. I’ve arrived until the 16 bar interpolating values based in the 7 given."

Posted January 3, 2014 by Chris

"My first Physical Computing class assignment for this summer was to create a bicycle computer. This is a device that you stick on your bike and it tells you how fast you are going, what your speed is, etc. Following is how I made my own bicycle computer. I used an Arduino to power several features. Data from these features were then displayed on an LCD screen."

Posted December 7, 2013 by Chris

"The concept of serial communication adds a whole other dimension to what you can do with the Arduino microcontroller. Communication with other applications is essential for the type of projects I would like to develop…My excitement in learning the technical aspects of serial communication encouraged me to experiment with with two dynamic programming environments that I enjoy working with: Flash and Processing."