March 13, 2007
Self modeling robot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a tight ass robot! While simple yet robust behaviors can be achieved without a model at all, here we show how low-level sensation and actuation synergies can give rise to an internal predictive self-model, which in turn can be used to develop new be ... More
March 12, 2007
DIY HACK - Homemade Balancing Skateboard!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this awesome homemade balancing skateboard. As a skateboarder myself, this is way too cool… It’s very similar to a snowboard to ride, requiring no user input other than the movement of your body mass. Leaning forwards and ... More
March 11, 2007
Octopart is a search engine for electronic parts
Check out this octopart search engine for electronic parts. It seems to searching mouser, digikey, and other major electronic part companies for stuff. The creator dropped out of school to make this so everyone please take a look! P.S. I couldn’t find any Make controllers, Cublocs, or any controllers that are not being sold through the majo ... More
March 10, 2007
DIY HACK - Wifi-bot
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out the wifi-robot from wifibot.com! WiFiBoT comes to fill the gap between the simple toys and the sophisticated but expensive robots that can be found today in the market. In our platforms you will find the right compromise b ... More
March 7, 2007
Solar GPS Logger
Here’s a cool little project that stores data into an SD card using solar power. After some prodding from customers and an upcoming prototype run I decided to throw in a little breakout board that would allow 2 solar panels to be connected in parallel to a 7805 linear regulator. An LED was added with a switch so the user could identify when ... More
February 28, 2007
IP in Your Email, get your external IP and send it to any email
Here’s a cool blog I came across on our new wagg.it site. It’s a custom application that will send email containing current external IP address to a specified email address automatically at set intervals. Why do you need this? I used to work as a network administrator at a company and had issues with DDNS (dynamic DNS) addresses where ... More
February 25, 2007
Bluetooth Accelerometer
Check out this PIC based bluetooth accelerometer that you can use for your future wireless accelerometer applications. This is a small wireless sensor platform providing a bluetooth SPP link to three axes of accelerometer data. The accelerometers are sampled by a PIC microcontroller (onboard ADC) at roughly 100Hz (rate can be changed via firmware ... More
February 23, 2007
Smalled RFID tags are smaller than human hair!
Check out the new RFID tags that are smaller than human hair from Hitachi Japan! The minute devices measure just 0.05mm by 0.05mm (0.002×0.002in) and to the naked eye look like spots of powder. They are thin enough to be embedded in a sheet of paper, Hitachi spokesman Masayuki Takeuchi says. RFID tags store data about the objects they are att ... More
February 21, 2007
DIY - Simple LCD Control with Ethernet
Here’s a cool project that you can control your LCD with ethernet. The simple “switch on/off a relay” circuit which was the only function provided by the avr web server until now did not require HTML-forms. I used simply 2 URLs http://baseurl/password/1 for switching on and http://baseurl/password/0 for switching off. This does n ... More
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
February 9, 2007
Zedomax DIY 127 - Make an Ethernet controlled Color Organ!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. For this weekend, we will show you how to make an ethernet controlled color organ that can be applied for some kind of stage lighting. We will be using the party light we made and simply plugin the MaxPORT module to the serial port of the CuSB22R. Click below for the full HOWTO: Then all you ... More
Optical recognition LEDs
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool video of optical recognition LEDs. Seems pretty easy to make, can you hack one? via Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, Microcontroller, Micro ... More
February 8, 2007
More Motor Experiments - 3 Stepper motors with CUBLOC CB280
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Here’s an update of controlling 3 stepper motors using a CUBLOC CB280 module. Although you can move the motors simultaneously, there are a lot of applications you can use it for. Sorry about the video, my video camera needs head cleaning. applications, build, cb280, Circuits, Circuits, c ... More
DIY - Motor Experiment - CUBLOC CB280 with Xylotex Stepper Motor
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. We’ve been messing around with some industrial stepper motors at work. These Xylotex stepper motors are pretty cool. We have an example here for interfacing with some CUBLOC modules. We got the 3-axis stepper kit so we will have a 3 stepper motor update soon too. 3axis, build, cb280, Circuit ... More
February 7, 2007
Ethereal - Free Network sniffer tool for embedded TCP/IP applications
This is the best sniffer for embedded TCP/IP applications in my opinion. There a lot of options such as HTTP filtering, UDP, TCP, DHCP, and you can also use it for capturing packets to break WEP codes… (not that i recommend it.) Cool, Hack, Hack, Microcontroller, Microcontroller, Network, Network ... More
Commodore PDA
Here’s a 64KB Commodore PDA system that runs BASIC. Tight! Here are a few pics of my own DTV Hummer project. I had an old PSOne LCD screen lying around and I thought I’d make a C64 laptop. Actually, it’s more like a C64 PDA! It measures 6.5 x 6 x 1.5 inches (15.5 x 16.5 x 4 cm) when closed. It can run from an AC wall adapter or ... More
DIY - AVR based Bucket mousetrap
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool little project for capturing mouse! This project captures a mouse by having a solenoid (electromagnet) drop a bucket over the mouse. The bucket is triggered by the mouse interrupting one of the infrared emitter/detector pairs around the bait ... More
February 6, 2007
DIY - Nomad Autonomous Buggy
Here’s a nice little RC buggy for future reference on RC mods… This was probably the most important thing to achieve. The R/C vehicle that I’m using has 2 servos, one to move the position of the front wheels and therefore controls steering and the other controls a mechanical speed controller (push it forwards and you go forwards ... More
DIY - How To Make Your Own Homebrewed PCBs
I think this has been around but we’ve been thinking about making some homebrew PCBs, so… This DIY is pretty good since it has lots of cool pictures… nice glove… via aliben Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Gadgets, Gadgets, Industrial, Industrial, Micro ... More
