May 24, 2007
Maker Faire 2007 - Make Controller Peripherals
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool review of Make Controller and peripherals from MakingThings.com. Thanks Ann for the video! Consumer, Consumer, controller, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, make-controller, Maker Faire, Maker Faire, maker ... More
April 24, 2007
Cool ROBOT - Servo Snake Bot!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is sick! Check out the servo snakebot using an Atmel Atmega32 microcontroller and bunch of Futaba servos! You can see more videos of the snakebot here. The robot consists of nine cars connected with eight Futaba servos controlled by a microcontroller. A ... More
April 3, 2007
DIY HACK - How to run an AVR MCU on a battery made out of lime!
Here’s a cool little DIY on how to run an AVR MCU on battery made out of lime! Some of the fruit and vegetables we eat can be used to make electricity. The electrolytes in many fruit and vegetables, together with electrodes made of various metals can be used to make primary cells. One of the most easily available vegetable, the ubiquitous le ... More
March 20, 2007
DIY HACK PROJECT - Audio Spectrum using an Atmel AVR MCU!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this cool audio spectrum analyzer you can make using an Atmel AVR MCU! Well, I’ve always wanted to make one of these but finally found it at HackedGadgets! This is an experimental work to monitor a spectrum pattern in radio band, and is a ... More
March 13, 2007
DIY HACK - How to build your own laptop!
Here’s a cool DIY on how to build your own laptop using a microcontroller and an LCD. Well we should really call it, “MCU Laptop” but it’s a great exercise for anyone learning computer hardware. Ever thought to yourself, “Hey, I could probably build my own computer if I really tried.” Or maybe, “Man, I r ... More
February 21, 2007
DIY HACK - Voltmeter Ammeter LCD
Check out voltmeter and ammeter LCD panel you can make using an Atmel8 MCU. Tight! This multimeter was designed to measure output voltage and current in a PSU, where the current sense shunt resistor is connected in series with load at the negative voltage rail. It needs only one supply voltage that can be acquired ... More
January 30, 2007
Make Daisy MP3 Made! Touchscreen Desktop MP3 hack coming soon…
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. So we made the MP3 player and it works freakin’ great! The sound quality was as good as an off-the-shelf MP3s. We plan to hack it using a CuTOUCH CT1720 and make some cool touchscreen menus for it. Here’s some pictures of how it will fit in the touchscreen enclosure: (It fit perfectly!) ... More
December 28, 2006
DIY HACK - “Propeller Clock” Mechanically Scanned LED Clock
Cool propeller clock you can make! How this clock works: A motor spins the “propeller”, and a small microprocessor keeps track of time and changes the pattern on seven LEDs with exact timing to simulate a 7 by 30 array of LEDs. It is an illusion, but it works nicely. If you want to build this clock, you will need a few things, includi ... More
November 27, 2006
Choice of On-board camera for embedded apps : CMU Cam
You gotta check out CMUcam if you haven’t yet. It can be controlled via a serial communications to processors such as PIC, CUBLOC, Basic Stamp, Make Controller, and etc… It’s a camera that was designed by Carnegie Mellon and has been around for awhile so it might be a good solution to go with instead of starting all over from ... More
October 22, 2006
DIY Circuit - Door Unlocker
Cool door unlocker based on PIC16F630 microcontroller and a stepper motor…I need this since I’ve broken my door before due to locking myself in… via hackaday via make broken_door, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Hack, hackaday, HOWTO, make, mcu, Microcontroller, ... More
October 18, 2006
Zedomax DIY 115- HOWTO establish serial connection with PCs bluetooth 2.0 with ACODE-300
Okay, today at work I have been getting a lot of calls on how to connect the ACODE-300 serial to bluetooth converter module to a PC or Laptop with bluetooth… Well since the ACODE-300 is bluetooth 1.1 compliant and bluetooth 2.0 is backward compatible, the ACODE-300 should have no problem in establishing serial connection with a PC. Why do you ... More
October 5, 2006
DIY Halloween Cave Eyes
Cool DIY project for halloween custom LEDs. This is a little microcontroller circuit that has 15 pairs of L.E.D.s that look like rodent eyes. The pairs of eyes blink in a semi-random fashion. So, what you end up with is 15 pairs of eyes staring out at you with one pair blinking (looks like the animal had to close their eyes briefly) at a time. T ... More
September 28, 2006
DIY - Equibot - Mini segway robot
Here’s mini version of Segway robot…using 2 Hitec servo motors Atmega32 mcu… Yey, now I can make some cool robots that run on a segway structure! via link atmega32, atmel, DoItYourself!, hitec, hitec_servo, mcu, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, mini_version, Robots, robots, Robots, segway, segway_robot, servo_motors, Travel ... More
September 21, 2006
DIY HACK - SMS VCR Control
Kinda cool DIY project here, a SMS VCR control. Imagine it, it’s 3:15 on a weekday afternoon and you’ve just realised you’ve forgotten to set the video to tape ‘Pet Rescue’. Usually you would be condemned to an afternoon of misery and disappointment, knowing you had no heartwarming cute animal stories to come home to ... More
