About: Ibrar Ayyub

This was a behemoth of a project involving an inflatable costume, a LED costume, and a glove that controlled the colors and patterns of the LEDs. I’ve been wanting to make an inflatable creature that would give birth to me for a while now (lots of my friend’s are having babies, so I guess my […]

If you previously worked(or currently working) with small 8-bit microcontrollers, like ATTiny or PIC12, you’ve probably encountered a fundamental problem of not having enough GPIO pins for your needs or project requirements. Upgrading to a larger MCU is only one of the options, but as usual there is an alternative. In this article I will […]

The resolvent of clock synchronization over internet. by PKJ, The web−based clock management system allows you to monitor clock status from wherever they are and centrally change settings. and this small device is built with PoE technology, thus IP clocks get their time, data and power from the same network that supports your other IP endpoints. […]

128X160 pixels in 18 bit color with a microSD breakout board courtesy of Adafruit Industries You can purchase the 18-bit color TFT LCD display with microSD card breakout kit (part# ST7735R) from Adafruit Industries This tutorial from Adafruit is for a 1.8″ diagonal TFT display & microSD breakout board. This breakout is the best way […]

Update (6/7/2012) – I’ve had to disable comments on this post, because it is being targeted by spam bots for some reason. Please use the contact page if you have a question about this topic. In this week’s arduino tutorial, we’ll be taking a look at SPI device control using the arduino. Specifically, we’re going […]

Many of you have probably seen the Awesome button done by Matt Richardson of Make Magazine. If not here is his video which was very well done and was the inspiration of my project. I liked the idea of having a button to press for a certain function on the computer, however i wasnt such […]

Quite by accident I came across a long time ago on video in YouTube, which focuses on domestic production of PCBs. Personally, I am convinced that it is better to perform the PCB in a professional company – you know: aesthetics, double-sided layout, descriptions, solder mask, tin holes etc. But for small, home projects, not […]

Protect your secret hideout from intruders with a lock that will only open when it hears the secret knock. This started out as a bit of a joke project, but turned out to be surprisingly accurate at judging knocks. If the precision is turned all the way up it can even detect people apart, even […]

You are building a soil temperature sensor. We need a waterproof thermometer that we can burry in the soil. The sensor is made up of a small circuit enclosed in a piece of heat shrink (to waterproof it). Supplies: (see the parts page) an LM335 temperature sensor a 33K and a 56K resistor a short […]

Finally! It’s been about 3 months since my last Arduino tutorial – I’ve been keeping busy as usual. I’ve been working on this one for some time. I got the parts months ago, made an outline a few weeks ago, prototyped the circuits and wrote the code last week, and did the filming over the […]