Embedded Entertainment System
Luis Cruz of Honduras built this Embedded Entertainment System using a total of four microcontrollers.
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Hands-on with FEZ Mini, a .NET-powered microcontroller (+ robot kit)
Two reflective sensors are included in the kit (useful for line following and edge detection projects), and you can order additional components both from TinyCLR.com and other robotics sites. Many construction parts are included in the kit so it is very easy to attach additional sensors or other parts. As you can see on the picture above, I already added a Sharp IR distance sensor in front (so I can teach the robot to not bump on walls). I also added an Xbee expansion board on the back so one day I can control the robot remotely (and my Holy Grail is to connect the robot to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio).
Use digital I/O pins to measure analog voltage
Building a cool microcontroller-based project, and wish you had just one or two more analog inputs? Or perhaps you are trying to make something using the tiniest microcontroller possible, and don’t have any analog ports in the first place?
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Linear stepper motor controller kit
Linistepper is a stepper motor controller/driver for small to medium sized 5-, 6-, or 8-wire unipolar (not 4-wire bi-polar) stepper motors, featuring “ultra smooth old school linear microstepping” combined with active current regulation from an on-board PIC microcontroller. The folks at PIClist are offering both PCBs and full kits for sale. Linistepper
Laser matrix projector for iPhone
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RoBoard, robot brains with PC aspirations
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