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Posted January 5, 2014 by Chris

"As far as solar powered vehicles go, the Hybrid Electric Kinetic Photovoltaic Vehicle (KPV) is probably the most innovative and eye catching of the lot. For one, the KPV is extremely portable and can fit in your suitcase. The KPV has a lithe body frame but can function just as well as any solar powered vehicle twice its size."

Posted January 3, 2014 by Chris

"My first Physical Computing class assignment for this summer was to create a bicycle computer. This is a device that you stick on your bike and it tells you how fast you are going, what your speed is, etc. Following is how I made my own bicycle computer. I used an Arduino to power several features. Data from these features were then displayed on an LCD screen."

Posted January 3, 2014 by Chris

"A pixel artist friend of mine wanted a mouse to try his skills on a real C64. I thought I could help him by making an adapter that would allow a regular PS/2 mouse to be used with a Commodore 64. The most popular and supported C64 mouse is 1351 mouse which uses analog capabilities of joystick control ports to send movement data."

Posted January 1, 2014 by Chris

Happy New Year 2014!

Posted December 31, 2013 by Chris

"I’ve talked in at least 1 other post about how to use the Infra Red remote control of a toy helicopter for other projects : once the protocol reverse engineered, it’s very easy to program a micro controller to listen to it and I find it very useful to integrate this into any project that needs some wireless remote controlling."

Posted December 29, 2013 by Chris

"I wanted my robot to be able to track object and follow them. The first thing I wanted to do is give the robot the ability to follow an object with its head camera. The head camera is mounted on a pan-tilt servo system, and hence is capable of moving left and right, up and down."

Posted December 27, 2013 by Chris

"The TinySynth is a program loaded onto an ATTiny45/85 that uses an eight-bit microcontroller to make sounds. We’ll need: TinyProgrammer, ATTiny45/85, Coin Cell Battery, Paper Speaker, Conductive Ink."

Posted December 26, 2013 by Chris

"PanoBot is a rudimentary panorama-taking device for any Canon camera running the CHDK firmware. This project was made back in ’08 so there are numerous projects that are much more full-featured than this implementation; nevertheless, I am making the code available for reference."

Posted December 25, 2013 by Chris

"Since I had 100 Pink LEDs, I decided to build something LED intensive. So, using a PIC12F629 as the microcontroller, I decided to build a Dual Die Emulator. Each die would consume 7 LEDs, so I would use 14 LEDs total for the project."

Posted December 24, 2013 by Chris

"In this special Christmas edition of Zedomax DIY122, we will show you how to make the geekiest Christmas Tree in the world using LEDs, bathroom pipes, and an embedded cubloc module."