GPS Unit Connected to an Eee

May 16, 2009 by Chris

This little project shows how to take a semi-broken GPS unit and create a new hardware interface to connect with your laptop. The software and hardware (PCB) schematic is provided for you.


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“Ikea” WiFi-Booster

February 4, 2009 by Chris

This project is another on the cheap wifi-booster. It uses a similar principle of a metallic parabola around the wifi antenna. I questions the quality of IKEA products for this use, but that's for you guys to decide.



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Sawed Off USB Cable

January 11, 2009 by Chris

This is a very simple project that shows you how to build a usb memory stick within the casing of a "sawed off usb cable." No real engineering at work here, just careful disassembly & re-assembly, but it's impressive!


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StickDuino – Arduino Clone

January 9, 2009 by Chris

StickDuino is a completely open source custom USB stick for an Arduino. If you've ever wanted to learn how to interface Arduino to USB or Build a PCB for your Arduino, this is a great place to start.



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Custom USB Wifi Antenna

January 2, 2009 by Chris

USB WiFi connections have been around for a few years now and their popularity is ever-growing. A popular mod is to attach your own antenna to the device. This project write-up takes you through that process and makes a few good suggestions.


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Wireless Arduino Programming

August 14, 2008 by Chris

In what is probably a fairly obvious and easy thing to do with Xbee, we have the arduino wireless programmer. This is a pretty cool idea because it clears up the mess of wires around your project and is very simple integrated into your project.


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The AVR NTP Clock

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.


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Nintendo Mouse

July 2, 2008 by Chris

The standard NES controller has been made into mp3 players, walkmans & plenty of other random yet incognito devices. This time it has been made into a fully fledged computer mouse. Check out the project write-up to see how it's made.



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Twitter LED Scroller (Arduino)

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.



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USBtiny – ATmega USB Converter

April 13, 2008 by Chris

This project is very useful for anyone who wants to get started using USB for programming instead of that clunky old parallel programmer. Using creative programming the author of this project managed to convert between parallel & USB using the ATtiny microcontroller.



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