Posted February 12, 2014 by Chris

"The USnooBie is a microcontroller kit that does not require any sort of AVR programmer or USB-to-serial converters to load and run compiled code. It’s hardware design allows the user to develop low cost USB devices with Atmel’s AVR ATmega microcontrollers. It can also be used to develop projects which are not USB devices. It is even compatible with Arduino."

Posted February 11, 2014 by Chris

"This easy-to-build electronic device allows you to take a screenshot of your calculator display and show it on an NTSC or PAL television set. Unlike the TI-Presenter this does not require a special calculator or a USB adaptor; it uses the 2.5mm link port."

Posted February 10, 2014 by Chris

"An interesting project has come up as a fund-raiser for BuildBrighton members – to ‘hack’ some alarm clocks and modify their behavior so that instead of playing a single sample when the alarm sounds, one of up to seven different sounds can be played."

Posted February 9, 2014 by Chris

"With the phasing out of game, serial and parallel ports from modern computers and the ever increasing popularity of USB, it makes sense that hobbyists start getting to grips working with USB….This project focuses on the use of a USB PIC and the mikroC compiler to convert an old game port joystick to utilize USB."

Posted February 8, 2014 by Chris

"My wireless temperature probes work by using an Xbee module to transmit readings from a TMP36 down to the Arduino base station…these take a voltage of around 3-5.5V as input and will output a voltage between 0-2.7V to indicate the temperature, which can be from -40 – 125°C."

Posted February 7, 2014 by Chris

"The heart of this project is PIC16F1847 microcontroller which receives data from a PC through a serial port, and display on the LED matrix with the help of five 74HC595 shift registers."

Posted February 6, 2014 by Chris

"A polar plotter is a plotter with a rotating, extendable arm. Its characteristics differ greatly from those of a traditional plotter, which in most areas have a superior design. You could say the polar plotter is more portable or something, but mainly I made this one because it was more of a challenge."

Posted February 5, 2014 by Chris

"So I had an idea…’3D RGB LED Pixel Cubes…’ *sweeping hand wave for effect*… I think that combination of words pretty much sums it, yeah? The basic idea is to take a traditional 2D pixel and turn it into a 3D form. I haven’t really seen this very basic concept… but haven’t Googled it to death…"

Posted February 4, 2014 by Chris

"People often use ARDUINO platforms and other microcontrollers (pic, avr) for making a propeller LED display and it is a bit costly to have them. I am trying to make one using AT89S52 microcontroller. I’m using a 11.0592MHz crystal and a 7805 for power supply. LEDs are connected to the PORT0 of the MCU, 8 leds are used for displaying letters….the wheel is attached to 6mm shaft and 1000RPM metal gare motor."

Posted February 3, 2014 by Chris

"Another piece of my ongoing FPGA stereo-vision project. This board is, as the name suggests, a breakout board for Aptina’s excellent MT9V032 1/3″ VGA image sensor. The board’s main purpose in life is to connect the LVDS output of the MT9V032 sensor to my FMC-LPC to SATA adapter board, which would then route the LVDS data into one of Xilinx’s Spartan-6 FPGA development boards. Multiple camera boards would be connected to support stereo vision."