Posted February 26, 2013 by Chris

“Rock Band 2 (RB2) and Guitar Hero World Tour (GHWT) both work with the drum set controller that is packaged with GHWT. The GHWT drums, unlike the RB2 drums, is plugged into a Wiimote’s expansion port. This expansion port is a I2C bus and the drum is a I2C slave device. An AVR microcontroller can be connected on this bus as a I2C slave with the same slave address to trick the Wii into thinking that it’s connected to a drum controller.”

Posted February 18, 2013 by Chris

“Only recently I’ve found the time to expand my old project in the most obvious way possible; by adding 3 more buttons to these IO ports and thereby creating a 4-key-keyboard, without having to add any other hardware than these 3 extra buttons.”

Posted February 10, 2013 by Chris

“The 48h project con­sisted of build­ing a hel­met device with humid­ity, tem­per­a­ture and fluid intake sen­sors, used to record and mea­sure the reac­tion of nuclear taco vic­tims of Codeb­its 2011 Nuclear Taco Chal­lenge. The sen­sors and ser­vos are con­nected by Arduino. 6 time­lapse videos were recorded doc­u­ment­ing the user expe­ri­ence. The host dis­played using face sub­sti­tu­ion tech­nol­ogy in realtime.”

Posted February 8, 2013 by Chris

“A few days ago I presented the ADK in Google’s blog. It’s a platform that enables communication between Android and Arduino terminals. The downside was that the development kit costs about 300 €. After seeing someone online who managed to run the ADK on Arduino with a USB Host Shield controlling a servo or LED, we wanted to do the same but a BricoGeek DIY version.”

Posted February 6, 2013 by Chris

“I recently found myself with a surplus of Adafruit Industries components, I decided to put a few of them to good use by making a custom NES controller…The design is fairly simple, the only difference between it and a standard controller would be the use of the Center pin on the navigation switch as the Select button.”

Posted February 5, 2013 by Chris

“Charliecube is a 4x4x4 tri-color LED Cube designed and created by Asher Glick and Kevin Baker. But what makes it special? Other cubes use shift registers, decade counters, or other components to control all the LEDs. The charliecube can be run using only 16 digital pins with no extra components.”

Posted February 2, 2013 by Chris

“Every time I talk about the All Spark Cube people ask ‘so what does it do?’ The features of the All Spark are the reason it was built and sponsored by Adaptive Computing. The Cube was built to catch peoples’ attention and to demonstrate how Adaptive can take a chaotic mess and inject order, structure and efficiency. We wrote several examples of how the All Spark Cube can demonstrate the effectiveness of a complex data center.”

Posted January 30, 2013 by Chris

“I have always really liked the user interface on Novatac and HDS lights, so many of my ideas are stolen from their user interfaces. There are things about those lights that I wanted to change, though, and some new features that I would like. I also know some people that I will be sharing this code with who have their own preferences, so I wanted configurability.”

Posted January 29, 2013 by Chris

“This is the system level integration practical final report for the Group C of 2008/09. The project was the development of a human interface using Prospeckz and Orient devices together to interact with a fighting video game….specifically for Street Figher on SNES.”

Posted January 28, 2013 by Chris

“This project will develop a low cost, easy-to-use device to assist a minimally-trained person in taking the BP using a cuff, a cell-phone and small signal acquisition box that connects both.”