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Posted April 1, 2008 by Chris

Stepper motors are a very powerful, yet accurate type of motor. The ability to ‘step’ through motion instead of to run uncontrollably like dc motors do is a great advantage. This write-up shows you how to use an L298 to control a stepper motor.

Posted March 31, 2008 by Chris

So what’s with the tomato? This project was made to make a camera flash when it ‘hears’ a loud noise. In this case, a bb gun shooting a tomato! Check out the project write-up for a full description on the modification.

Posted March 30, 2008 by Chris

Moving away from basic and boring segment LCDs we have the color graphic LCD! This write-up has an in-depth look at how to control the LCD with an ATMega and make it display what you want.

Posted March 29, 2008 by Chris

Much work has been put into the security robot. A windows program with a nice gui, a completely unique vehicle design and more. The creator of this robot even has 2 previous revisions of the robot design all on his website.

Posted March 28, 2008 by Chris

The Sandwhich robot is a cool little line follower that uses a tupperware container enclosure. Most the other parts it uses are very basic which makes it great for beginners!

Posted March 27, 2008 by Chris

Once again we’ll take a look at how to generate VGA timing signals. This time with a different approach using the VHDL programming language with the Altera UP2 board. This method is far more flexible and reliable so it is definitely worth a look.

Posted March 26, 2008 by Chris

The robotic drum machine is a very innovative creation. It’s simply a few drum sticks placed over the drums with actuators to move them when necessary. It takes a standard midi input and creates the beat from it!

Posted March 25, 2008 by Chris

If you’ve ever used a music playing utility on a pc you’ll notice they always have a cool little display of either the audio frequency spectrum or the actual audio amplitude wave. The Music Equalizer Display created in this tutorial outputs the latter using a standard 10 LED bar.

Posted March 24, 2008 by Chris

The DIY laptop is probably one of the most novel yet seemingly useless projects I’ve seen in a while. If nothing it’s just fun to look at and see what one man can create now-a-days compared to decades ago.

Posted March 23, 2008 by Chris

Wiimote hacking has been around for quite a while and so everything about it is pretty much out in the open now. This project write-up explains how to transmit and receive data with the Wiimote using an ATmega microcontroller.