Posted September 7, 2008 by Chris

Here is another hand-held g-meter not terribly dissimilar from my own. The design uses an AVR microcontroller and is designed for a small area. I really liked the code work & hardware design for this project. Don’t miss this one!

Posted August 16, 2008 by Chris

Digital Video Recorders have become mainstream and are included in all cable boxes anymore. Most of these are generic, dull & don’t work very well. The Homebrew equivalents of DVR have become very popular as they can cut out commercials and just generally work far better. Learn how to make your own here.

Posted July 30, 2008 by Chris

BattMan II is a computer controlled battery manager, intended for typical rechargeable batteries used by R/C and electronics hobbyists, as well as various consumer product batteries. The project-write up is extremely detailed with hardware schematics & source code ready for download.

Posted July 23, 2008 by Chris

This project uses the NTP protocol for requesting a timestamp in order to keep the clock synchronized with the internet. It is essentially a tcp/ip client that has been beefed up to do some cool stuff. An AVR micro is used for all the processing. All schematics, software & references are there.

Posted July 18, 2008 by Chris

Using the STAMP microcontroller this project write-up details out how to make an electronic post-it notes display. All software & step by step guide is right there for you and it’s written very clearly.

Posted July 17, 2008 by Chris

The idea of the Segway drove many people to try and build their own version. This segway is open source so all the code is there waiting for you. The project write-up lists & details out the parts used with lots of pictures. Be sure to watch the video!

Posted July 14, 2008 by Chris

The sentry gun project came out a while ago and showed what two crazy people with a paintball gun could do in a short amount of time. The fact that this project works means computer vision algorithms are indeed improving. Take a look, videos & construction details are all there.

Posted May 31, 2008 by Chris

The homemade weather vane is a simple project with a compass display to show you which way the wind is currently blowing. The purpose of course is for logging weather (wind) data over long periods of time. The write-up lists all necessary parts & the construction procedure.

Posted May 30, 2008 by Chris

This system has many different devices interfaced together all controlled by a central computer & program with a straight forward gui. The idea is to spice up this guys dorm room. He’s made a decent write-up with pictures and videos, take a look.

Posted May 21, 2008 by Chris

For all you out there who are in love with twitter this project is for you. Build a dot-matrix display of your twitter updates which scroll on by. Source code, schematics & lots of pictures await you in the project write-up.