Posts by Ibrar Ayyub:
The Arduino AA Undershield
Posted on: 30 Mar 2023
I recently bought an Arduino Diecimila board. It’s awesome and the applications, you can use it for or with is almost unlimited. However there’s a problem when you want to use it in portable applications. You can use the Liquidware lithium backpack, which is a good way to power the Arduino. There’s a problem with …
Plastc – one card to rule them all?
Posted on: 29 Mar 2023
Tired of digging through the collection of credit, debit and loyalty cards in your wallet? Well, if you are, then you’re the sort of person who might like the Plastc Card. It’s a new electronic card-format device, that can store the information for up to 20 other cards on it at once. You just select …
Autonomous Sumo Combat Robot with Pneumatic Flipper – How to
Posted on: 29 Mar 2023
This Sumo Bot was designed, built, programmed and tested over a 12 week period for one of my final year engineering classes. The aim was to design and build a lightweight fully autonomous sumo fighting robot for an in class Sumo Bot competition. The robot was required to push, lift or flip the opponent’s robot out …
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Bluetooth RGB Shelf Lighting using Arduino
Posted on: 28 Mar 2023
Being the giant fan of LED’s that I am i’m always trying to come up with new ways I can put them throughout my house. Today i’m going to show you how to create a simple, yet extremely eye catching, RGB Bluetooth controlled Shelf lighting system. The beauty of integrating Bluetooth into the system is …
Realtime GPS+GPRS tracking of vehicles using Arduino
Posted on: 28 Mar 2023
You just need to install your Arduino with the GPRS+GPS Quadband Module (SIM908) in a hidden place in your car, maybe in your trunk, in the glove compartment or under your spare tyre. Then connect the GPRS-GSM and the GPS antenna and a SIM card, all of this powered with a battery and… you are …
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Atmel has ZigBee radio for 3D TV glasses
Posted on: 27 Mar 2023
Low-Power 2.4GHz ISM Transceiver for Consumer Applications The Atmel AT86RF232 2.4GHz ISM transceiver is fully IEEE 802.15.4-compliant and feature-optimized for consumer applications in the unlicensed 2.4GHz ISM band available worldwide. It is ideal for low-complexity, peer-to-peer wireless applications like remote controls, health and fitness devices, toys, game controllers, and others. The new device is fully-compliant …
L.O.G. $10 Arduino
Posted on: 27 Mar 2023
There are probably thousands of articles on making an Arduino. So who needs another Arduino? Well, this Lazy Old Geek(L.O.G.) needs one. Here’s the features I would like: Features: Low cost More permanent than a breadboard Not a custom PCB More prototyping area than a RBBB or Anarduino or Boarduino Easier prototyping than just perfboards …
Love Gauge Using Arduino
Posted on: 26 Mar 2023
I’m working together with my wife. But sometimes one of us has an external appointment. So, if one of us is thinking about the other, we want to show it together. For this, I have made an Love Gauge for us. It stands on our desktop, or you can carry it somewhere else, cause it …
MSP430 FET using TI Launchpad
Posted on: 26 Mar 2023
In order to do In System Programming (ISP) you usually need a Flash Emulator Tool (FET). For the Texas instruments MSP340 family you can buy the one that TI sells for their MCUs: That costs about 100$ and it isn’t too much if you program MCUs for a living. It can work with supplies from …
Arduino Powered Autonomous Vehicle
Posted on: 25 Mar 2023
A few months back I started playing around with Arduino micro controllers as a learning exercise (and for fun); this project is the culmination of that. The goal of the project was to create a vehicle that can autonomously navigate through a series of waypoints (GPS coordinates) while avoiding any obstacles it encounters along the …
Emotidora: Hats with Emotions using Arduino
Posted on: 25 Mar 2023
This project, Emotidora, will help a user express his/her emotions about events in day-to-day life. Weve all been in situations where something very exciting or unfortunate has happened to us and we want to share it with other people. This usually involves the expression of some emotion through visual cues, and when prompted by a …
Programmable driver runs motors quietly
Posted on: 24 Mar 2023
Dedcription The MTD6505 device is a 3-phase full-wave sensorless driver for brushless DC (BLDC) motors. It features 180° sinusoidal drive, high torque output and silent drive. With the adaptive features, parameters and wide range of power-supplies (2V to 5.5V), the MTD6505 is intended to cover a broad range of motor characteristics, while requiring minimum external …