Posted October 11, 2013 by Chris

"I have been searching for ideas of making a Quadcopter Arduino flight controller Adapter to sit my Arduino nano board and the GY80, also have some header pins for motors and receiver to make the cabling tidy. There are a lot of Arduino shields people have designed for the Quadcopter. I didn’t follow any of the designs. I actually didn’t follow any planned design and solder the parts on the veroboard as I go along."

Posted October 9, 2013 by Chris

"A geekish clock using a single 8-pin AVR microcontroller that tells the time with LEDs in binary for each decimal digit, much like the famous ones from ThinkGeek, but with some exclusive features such as couting in Gray code."

Posted October 8, 2013 by Chris

"The circuit was build with microcontroller ATmega8.
Here, I’m extending the same circuit to control the DC motor with IR remote control. The motor is fitted on a toy car wheels with gears, as shown in the figure above."

Posted October 6, 2013 by Chris

"A modern microcontroller has almost everything that’s needed to implement a touch sensor matrix. There are several sensing technologies: IC manufacturers typically advise using certain tech, sometimes they offer ready to use hardware- or software-based solutions. I was curious to try to implement a sensor matrix entirely from scratch all by myself."

Posted September 29, 2013 by Chris

"A few weeks ago I needed an Arduino compatible Micro SD adapter but didn’t want to wait for one to arrive in the post so inspired by the breadboard ghetto Micro SD socket I knocked up a mini shield using a bit of left over stripboard and a SD to Micro SD adapter."

Posted September 27, 2013 by Chris

"This is a quick guide with a bit of extra info that I’ve learnt along the way on how to use the L293D with the Arduino, showing that we can: A) Use a supplemental power source to power the DC motor, B) Use the L293D chip to drive the motor, C) Use a switch to change the direction of the motor."

Posted September 24, 2013 by Chris

"I decided to explore the more advanced features of XBee radios by building a remote temperature sensor. You can get quite a bit of control over an XBee radio without a microcontroller at all. You can configure the radio to send sensor readings at particular intervals when it detects changes on certain input pins."

Posted September 22, 2013 by Chris

Here is another twist on the POV clock idea, a POV globe. Although project details are sparse, the creater of this awesome POV glove has put up many detailed photos of his design along with videos of it in action to give you a feel for how it works. A very interesting project!

Posted September 20, 2013 by Chris

“I have always wanted to create a VGA generator. It has been a personal goal of mine for some time. Over the past couple of weeks I toyed with the idea and finally decided to implement one. I decided to implement it as a framebuffer to allow for general purpose display rather than application specific display. I implemented my own small colour gamut to be memory and CPU efficient.”

Posted September 18, 2013 by Chris

“Clappidoo sits quietly and will not bother anyone, unless somebody carelessly puts an object in front of him. Clappidoo will then wake-up and, depending on his ‘mood’ of the moment, will either be: Angry, Happy, Confused or Flirty. Clappidoo will go trough all these moods at random, and will go back to sleep if you remove the annoyance in front of him.”