Here is how to program a Basic Stamp for use in your home automation projects. In this article we are programming the basic stamp to trigger a remote switch for your home lights or any other power switching device, like a garage door, fireplace and so on. We are controlling it through the web or […]
Dane has another interesting project that asks the question “Can PWM from a simple micro-controller duplicate complex sounds?” The answer is yes, with surprising results. Wouldn’t it be sweet if you could have your micro play back complex things, over audio for an extremely low cost? Imagine replacing that one i/o line that used to […]
The death of BeOS was an incredible shame. I sometimes wonder what modern operating systems, developer interfaces, and hardware hacking tools (remember the geek port?) would be commonplace today if this weird tangent in computing history had really taken off. An Ars Technica article about the open source BeOS “Haiku” project caught my eye today, […]
Next Meeting: Tuesday 26 February 2008 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Katie Bechtold : The MESSENGER Project Katie, a spacecraft flight software developer and controller, will discuss MESSENGER, the first mission to visit Mercury in […]
I had doubts that Matt Mets could pull off an awesome hardware project every day for Thing-a-Day, but he’s doing a pretty stellar job so far; keep it up! He made this drum loop recorder that records physical inputs and plays them back in a loop using an Arduino Barebones board. Source code and schematic […]
Searching through the forums @ AVRFreaks turned up this project devised by two Cornell students back in 2003 – For this endeavour, we first built an input stage that will amplify the input signal, as well as bias it to 2.5V (since the ADC can only sample positive signals). The ADC (MAX1111) is controlled by […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Member Macetech took on the challenge of soldering this teeny-tiny 3mm QFN-16 SMD chip. Those are 30AWG wires in the pic and the chip is an Allegro A6281 3-LED PWM driver. Macetech does mention, “Note: this prototyping method is really not recommended for anyone with common sense.” Agreed! –Link Related: […]
