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Posted August 18, 2008 by Chris

This is one of the cooler quick & easy DIY tricks. You take a photoresistor hooked up to an audio input jack and point a modified LED & stereo at it and music plays! The project write-up for this is as detailed you need & has some great pictures so there’s no questions left. Check out this cool project.

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 16, 2008 by Chris

Digital Video Recorders have become mainstream and are included in all cable boxes anymore. Most of these are generic, dull & don’t work very well. The Homebrew equivalents of DVR have become very popular as they can cut out commercials and just generally work far better. Learn how to make your own here.

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 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.

Posted August 13, 2008 by Chris

The 555 timer IC has been around for many decades now and during its peek of popularity was in many commercial products. With the coming of digital timers & microcontrollers the need for the 555 timer has faded, however this classic chip must never be forgotten. The linked website has everything you need to know about the 555 timer.

Posted August 12, 2008 by Chris

The cell phone gps tracker has an entire website dedicated to it. You communicate with the device by sending text messages and can get all the data you’d ever need from it about your location, speed..etc, all with a cheap prepaid cell phone. Be sure to take a look.

Posted August 11, 2008 by Chris

The XBox 360 comes standard with a green power LED whenever it is turned on. This color is fitting to the XBox color scheme, however maybe you want a red or blue LED in there…no problem! This simple project write-up guides you through the process of getting a new one and installing it onto the board without messing up your XBox.

Posted August 10, 2008 by Chris

This is probably one of the more interesting projects I’ve seen in a while, at least conceptually. A solar powered UAV seems at some level a no-brainer especially if it could fly high enough over the clouds & fast enough to always be in sun-light. The engineering behind it however is very complex. The project website has all the details you’d ever want!

Posted August 9, 2008 by Chris

This project is a simple little frequency meter. It uses an ATMega microcontroller for its brains with a standard algorithm & timer for calculating the frequency seen on input. Newer microcontrollers will have CCP (capture & compare modules) that make this task a piece of cake, but a back to the basics look at thing never hurts!