Posted October 17, 2008 by Chris

If you’re a linux guy and have always wanted an ‘in’ to the world of microcontrollers then this article/guide is for you. It’s not really a project so much as a very well written how-to develop for Atmel’s AVR using the linux gcc compiler. A great alternative from the Windowz world.

Posted October 9, 2008 by Chris

The oscilloscope is arguable one of the most useful tools for electrical engineers. This is a small DIY oscilloscope that uses a simple PIC dev board and a computer GUI to display the results. .NET is used to store & display the data. Both hardware schematics & software are available for download in the project write-up.

Posted September 15, 2008 by Chris

The Weeboy is quite the spin-off of the Wiimote. It uses an accelerometer to detect tilt and has a built in game around this sensor. This means, no joystick or gamepad, only a box that you tilt in every which way to play the game. Software & hardware schematics are available for download.

Posted August 17, 2008 by Chris

Arduino Playground is a cool little website devoted to…you guessed it the Arduino microcontroller. It has detailed step-by-step guides to get you started from the very beginning, to loading code onto an Arduino.

Posted August 15, 2008 by Chris

This is an interesting project that I stumbled onto when I was surfing through source forge. The Rossum project attempts to create a standard software platform for similar hardware. Robotics software usually needs to be built from the ground up, so this project helps to leap over the first hurdles when developing robotics software.

Posted August 3, 2008 by Chris

Here is a simple LCD display that is controlled via web browser through an Ethernet interface. An ATMega microcontroller does all the dirty inbetween work. The project write-up gives a good medium-high level description of the project details & the software source code is available for download.

Posted July 20, 2008 by Chris

The RGB combination door lock is a very intuitive thought for home security. It’s tough to get passed a locked door if you have no clue how the security system works. The project write-up has a very detailed explanation with many visual aides.

Posted July 5, 2008 by Chris

Using some tools bought off ebay, you can create your very own wireless, web controlled security system! The write-up is hosted courtesy of instructables and it gives a page by page description of what the project is & how to build it.

Posted July 3, 2008 by Chris

From the project write-up: “Minimig stands for Mini Amiga. Minimig is an FPGA-based re-implementation of the original Amiga 500 hardware.” It’s definitely worth a look for anyone interesting in how emulation of hardware & software on FPGA is done.

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.