Hardware components: SparkFun RedBoard × 1 DC Stepper Motor 28-BY-J-48 × 1 MB 1010 LV-Max-Sonar EZ1 × 1 WunderBar × 1 Story A Sparkfun Red-Board utilizes a LV-Max Sonar component to judge distances between the user and the robot, powering the DC stepper motor to move forward, reverse or change direction. Each motor requires around […]
Story The main purpose of this project is to build a system based on chip ATMEGA328P, Arduino compatible, and interface it with a 2.2″ QVGA TFT display using the library ILI9341. As an alternative to the self-build system you can use an Arduino Pro 3.3 V/ 8 MHz board or similar. This system works well […]
Introduction The Atmel tinyAVR MCU’s are great little chips for projects but can prove difficult to debug. Some ATtiny chips do not have direct support for hardware based serial and therefore the Serial object is unavailable in your code, however, it is easy to add a Software Serial object and view output in the Arduino […]
Story We (most of us) really like Arduino because it’s possible to make cheap clones, lots of libraries, examples, forum support and community out there. Outside Arduino world, I like Cypress PSoC for some of its cool features like Graphical IDE, APIs, great features and understandable documentation. I have bunch of PSoC® 4 CY8CKIT-049 4xxx […]
Story Warning: Digispark uses Attiny85 PIN#1 as I/O – remove RESET button functionality Notes FOR ADVANCED USERS ONLY The Trinket 5V and the Digispark share the same hardware design, right down to the LED being on PB1. Personally, I prefer the Trinket hardware over the Digispark, but the Digispark has a totally different ecosystem and is […]
Story This is a small semaphore you can put on your desk. You can use it to tell whatever you want to the people around it. For example, because you need some concentration and you’d like your colleagues not to disturb you. Or to tell the status of the system you’re managing. Or say which […]
Chachka is born! Chachka is an Adafruit Trinket CLONE built from the ATtiny85 microcontroller. Because it is a current Adafruit product, it has a training guide and its own support forum and lots of sample code. All of this means that like an Uno clone, the Chachka will be well supported with firmware and libraries and […]
Story I went for a shower one day, was getting late for office. Running tight on time, but I didn’t want to come out of hot shower in cold morning. Without any clock in my bathroom I was saying to myself “Lets enjoy the shower for few more minutes, I might be over estimating the […]
Background A few years ago, a co-worker turned me on to this TV program called “The IT Crowd”. The show revolves around a two-person IT team and their “Relationship Manager”, Jen, who inadvertently landed the job by including some basic PC skills on her resume. Moss and Roy resent her for getting the position both […]
Story Yosh ! At last, finished working on this project. I have been working on this project for a while, then got bored and left the remaining work ( mostly firmware ) for a couple of months, ah ! the longest project I ever did ! What’s all this about ? This project is about […]
