Posted November 29, 2013 by Chris

"Here’s a cheap way to build your own fully customisable infrared PC remote control. If you already have a suitable infrared remote control going spare you can build one of these for under £4, it will allow you to use most infrared remote controls to issue keyboard commands on your PC."

Posted November 26, 2013 by Chris

"There is no denying it, Analogue VGA is on the way out. Which is a shame really, because it is so easy to get an FPGA to drive a few resistors and put a picture up on the screen. It’s a great ‘stretch’ project for the FPGA first-timer. But it does have a downside. Each bit of colour resolution required 1 I/O pin and 2 resistors, and then there is an additional couple of sync pins to."

Posted November 14, 2013 by Chris

"A few weeks ago I was asked about creating a musical-effect display with an RGB LED cube kit from our friends over at Freetronics, and with a little work this was certainly possible using the MSGEQ7 spectrum analyzer IC. In this project we’ll create a small add-on PCB containing the spectrum analyzer circuit and show how it can drive the RGB LED cube kit."

Posted November 9, 2013 by Chris

"A project I’ve been hacking on for a while is a self-contained 1-wire to IPv6 bridge based on an Atmel AVR ATmega644 and the ENC28J60 Ethernet controller from Microchip."

Posted November 7, 2013 by Chris

"This is the fourth generation of colour organ that I have built and, unlike previous designs, uses entirely digital filtering for excellent frequency band separation – a natural for me since I developed a DSP course, CTEC1631, at Niagara College in 2005 for the department of Computer Engineering Technology."

Posted November 1, 2013 by Chris

"Arduino-based project to create power strip driven remotely through an Ethernet network. To turn outlets you are connecting to the microcontroller via telnet and after entering a password, you can change the status of the main lines and see if they are on or off."

Posted October 27, 2013 by Chris

"I have always like the idea of a physical music sequencer but I didn’t want to make one like the other I had seen so I decided to come up with, what I believe, is a unique take on the concept an RFID sequencer."

Posted October 25, 2013 by Chris

"A lot of people asked if we could enable wireless streaming for it. I was personally very excited about that since I have been playing with the thought for quite a while, so when the official camera module for the Raspberry Pi became available I bought it straight away."

Posted October 15, 2013 by Chris

"I have decided to create and document the design of a simple PID velocity DC motor controller. While this idea is not new or novel I feel that many people can take what I have learned from this project and implement it into their own designs."

Posted October 12, 2013 by Chris

"This post shows how you can output VGA signals to a monitor, turning your Uno (or similar) processor into a ‘video card’."

This project is very similar to our own Arduino VGA output but much more comprehensive — including assembly code!