uC Hobby has a piece up on the use of interrupt routines in Ardunio programming: Often when working on microcontroller projects you need a background function to run at regular intervals. This is often done by setting up a hardware timer to generate an interrupt. The interrupt triggers an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) to handle […]
Nifty wall-mounted nixie tube clock posted to the MAKE Flickr Pool. Nixie Clock III – Link
I love jewelry and art objects made out of electronic components. Here are some really sweet robot charms made mainly from capacitors and resistors. 21st Century Folk-Art by oBVIoUS FRoNT – [via] Link
Rather roughshod tutorial (e.g. I think he gets his wires crossed) on adding a motion detector trigger to a paintball gun using a BASIC Stamp HomeWork board, a laser pointer and a servo. How to build motion detect to fire a paintball gun – [via] Link
Dave from uC Hobby writes: This is the third in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. In this article we bit-bang our way through Jingle Bells. It’s almost Christmas so why not make a festive microcontroller project? Arduino Sound Part 3. Playing a Melody – Link Related: Making Arduino sing – […]
The latest issue of Robot magazine is out. As always, they’ve posted an extended article from the mag online. This one’s a run-down of all of the programming languages and development environments available for use with LEGO Mindstorms NXT. Programming Solutions for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT – Link
What do you do when good hard drives go bad? Tell me if this sounds familiar. You spend a year or two filling up an enormous external hard drive, and just as you start thinking it might be a good idea to buy another enormous drive to back up your data, you boot your computer […]
