Posted October 20, 2013 by Chris

"Do you want to control your Arduino with an IR remote? Do you want to use your Arduino to control your stereo or other devices? This IR remote library lets you both send and receive IR remote codes in multiple protocols. It supports NEC, Sony SIRC, Philips RC5, Philips RC6, and raw protocols."

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 7, 2013 by Chris

"The 2009 Robot Rally spotlighted all the flaws that result from a quick 3 week engineering and building project. Time saving shortcuts in code and hardware bit my butt several times. Failed edge detectors – Ouch! Failed beacon tracker … chomp! Ow! Line follower reversal – Arrrg! I’m happy to report I’ve investigated all the issues that cropped up and fixed them all."

Posted October 4, 2013 by Chris

"The objective of the Photovoltaic Martian Bug project is to create small autonomous robots. These robots will be powered by solar panels and intelligently react with their environment."

Posted September 25, 2013 by Chris

"An adventure of the Southern Appalachian Space Agency, by Travis Goodspeed, as presented at Summercon 2013, inspired by the lectures of Adam Laurie and Jim Geovedi, with kind assistance from Skytee."

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 21, 2013 by Chris

“Using an add-on card to the already existing avr ethernet board we build a weather station. That is: A weather station with a build-in webserver…The system is modular. You can either build a pure Ethenet weather station or an Ethenet weather station with an additional local LCD display.”

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.”

Posted September 16, 2013 by Chris

“This project started about 8 months ago in January 2010, when I saw that a surprising number of people were making ROVs at home. Though very few had footage of anything interesting, it certainly proved the concept was viable. I’ve always been fascinated and fearful of the ocean, so this seemed a great way to explore the depths without having to personally go where the sun doesn’t shine.”

Posted September 11, 2013 by Chris

“Goals: [1] Create a wireless device that sends data from a simple tilt switch. [2] Use a PC to capture, analyze, and detect shaking mosion…..Method: Place a simple tilt switch on a wireless RF board (PIC12F675). Receive the RF data onto a USB PIC (PIC18F2550). Transmit the data to a laptop using USB serial port emulation (PBP code). Analyze the data using Processing, identify and visualize shake-motion.”