Essentially another tutorial involving controlling DC motors. In this post I’m going to first alter a robot arm I had built previously from a beginners kit so that it can be controlled from Arduino. Then I’m going to write a series of posts on different ways to control the robot arm using Processing and other things. You should be able to […]
Arduino – Modifying a Robot Arm using ATmega328 Read More »
I spent part of an afternoon developing a hardware RSS reader (most of my time was spent on the python side of things). It’s pretty simple and uses an AVR microcontroller connected to a computer via a serial cable. Hardware I am using the Dragon Rider 500 as a development board. This provides all of the hardware
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Introduction: A good while back, I made the 1-key-keyboard project. Ever since it has always been in the back of my mind that the ATTiny microcontroller, which I used in this project, had still 3 IO ports which were unused. Only recently I’ve found the time to expand my old project in the most obvious way
4-key keyboard using ATtiny85 Read More »
The purpose of this project was to create a simple, portable device that would periodically read sensors and then store the sensor data so it could be retrieved later. The result is the HexiLogger, “hexi” because it can support up to six different sensor inputs and “logger” because it will store the input data on
HexiLogger, an Arduino based data logger using ATmega328 Read More »
Driving a shift register using an AVR chip’s built-in hardware is really quite easy. Most of their offerings have an SPI module, or Serial Peripheral Interface. A shift register is exactly that, a peripheral device that communicates via a serial line. All we need to do is hook up our connections and use a few
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Easy Input is a head-controlled keyboard and mouse input device for disabled users. The system uses accelerometers to detect the user’s head tilt in order to direct mouse movement on the monitor. The clicking of the mouse is activated by the user’s eye blinking through a reflective sensor. The keyboard function is implemented by allowing
Head-Controlled Keyboard And Mouse using ATmega32 Read More »
DESCRIPTION This project is to make a clone of Arduino Leonardo in a simple way.That is why the distribution of the pin does not match the standard Arduino (have to make many jumpers on the motherboard or use both sides). However, most Arduino Leonardo characteristics are maintained. The circuit is protected by an automatic reset fuse
Leonardo Arduino clone a single-sided PCB using ATmega32U4 Read More »
Introduction With all focus of computer technology advancement placed on processors and memory, sometimes the most simple of components are overlooked. This is especially the case with the mouse, a device that has changed very little since its conception by Xerox. It still retains its basic shape and function in moving a cursor within a
Spring 2002 Gmouse Using Atmel ATMEGA163 Read More »
We have designed a programmable infrared receiver which can utilize any pulse coded IR signal to play Connect Four from a remote distance. The programmable infrared receiver device we have created can decode any pulse-width modulated signal of an IR remote control, store it in non-volatile memory, and then recognize that signal again the next
Connect Four with Programmable Infrared Receiver Atmel Mega32 Read More »
MP3 is presently a household term; the reader will likely own a few, barring any intervention from the RIAA. Since it’s not always practical to sit in front of a monitor and keyboard when you want to listen to music (e.g. in a car, on the couch, in the bathroom), we decided to create a
TV/Keypad Interface for Winamp Using Atmel MEGA32 Read More »
