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Posted May 11, 2008 by Chris

Hexapods have recently grown far more popular in both autonomous & r/c worlds. This short, but informative write-up details the process of making a hexapod with standard hobby servos. There are many resourceful links within it as well.

Posted May 10, 2008 by Chris

This website has several projects done using the Pluto FPGA board. It’s just a very simple board with a standard I/O port setup. It uses Altera FPGAs & there are many applications for it on this website, all explained in great detail (source code also included).

Posted May 9, 2008 by Chris

We’ve seen high-altitude balloon projects before, here’s another one! The project write-up has all the details of the computer system inside. Be sure to checkout the high-altitude aerial photos, awesome stuff.

Posted May 8, 2008 by Chris

IR sensors are usually housed in some nice casing to get optimal performance and it will be on a PCB with a standard output connector. Rarely do we see how these things actually work. This project write-up shows how a basic IR range sensor works using 2 LEDs (IR Transmitter/Receiver).

Posted May 7, 2008 by Chris

Using electricity to create magnetic fields has been done for many, many years. This project shows you how to create your own magnetic levitator at home using house-hold parts. The write-up also gets into some basic control theory using feedback amplifiers.

Posted May 6, 2008 by Chris

In a back to the basics kind of post, here is a site with a plethora of different blinking circuit schematics. These simple designs work well and are great tools for teaching the basics of electronics as you get to see stuff actually happen. Where-as with most electronics all the difficult stuff is usually transparent.

Posted May 5, 2008 by Chris

Digital Oscilloscopes made with microcontrollers are always both cool little gizmos and very useful. This AVR based oscilloscope is limited in features, however its small size and low build-cost make it worthwhile. Hardware schematics and software are available for download.

Posted May 4, 2008 by Chris

The yellow drum machine is a neat little robot that navigates & plays music. It drums using little ‘drum sticks’ attached to its body with actuators. The write-up details the entire project and there are alot of cool videos of the robot in action!

Posted May 3, 2008 by Chris

This is actually the third part in a series on digital audio. The project write-up and the instructional video show how to play an audio wave file from an SD card using a standard microcontroller. The hardware setup & software source code is all there for you.

Posted May 2, 2008 by Chris

For Apple/Mac lovers the embedded world is not very friendly. There are very few IDE’s available for OSX and beyond. However, this tutorial for the AVR, guides mac users on how to get everything interfaced & programmed with minimal effort. Software examples & walkthroughs are included.