Hack a wireless home automation system to be USB controlled using two AVR microcontrollers! Check out the video! The system is really more responsive, but the browser on my phone is slow. Skills ans tools There are two ways of hacking an RF remote to be controlled by a computer or a microcontroller. The lame […]
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Yes, I know this has been done before, but I wanted to build my own, using as few parts as possible. I built this as a table top or wall mount model, but it can be scaled up to make a coffee table. I built it as a study for a more ambitious project, which
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This project is used to automate the home appliances through Bluetooth enabled PC. You can use the USB Bluetooth at the PC side and an Serail Bluetooth converter is used at the microcontroller side. The sparkfun bluetooth module is used here, but you can use any serial bluetooth module which supports SPP profile. Atmega8 microcontroller
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When my little girl was born I wanted to make her a special night light for in her room. I made her a ceiling light with twinkling stars. It is made up of a piece of custom wood with 100 LEDs mounted in it. An AVR AT90S8538 micro controller runs a bascom program that produces
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This project is used to control the brightness of the lamp or can be used to control the speed of the fan. The system consists of 3 block they are Zero crossing detector Microcontroller (Atmega8) Load Driver (BT136)As the name implies the zero crossing detector generates pulses for every zero crossing of the input AC
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