Posts by Ibrar Ayyub:
How Surge Protectors Work
Posted on: 27 Mar 2013
Surge Protection A standard surge protector passes the electrical current along from the outlet to a number of electrical and electronic devices plugged into the power strip. If the voltage from the outlet surges or spikes — rises above the accepted level — the surge protector diverts the extra electricity into the outlet’s grounding wire. […]
The Game of Life using ATtiny2313 microcontroller
Posted on: 26 Mar 2013
The reason for making this project is that I was always fascinated by Conways Game of Life. It’s a great demonstration of the fact that simple things with a very simple set of rules can do wonderful things: spawn more of them, modify themselves, do logical operations, even create Turing machines. I suspect much more […]
Build your own PICkit 2 programmer
Posted on: 26 Mar 2013
There are many PIC programmer available, commercial and DIY devices. As Microchip introduces the new microprocessors the programming software got to be updated accordingly playing catch-up with the PIC manufacturer. That is the root of the problem with third-party PIC programmers. Microchip’s PICkit 2 is the low cost ICSP programmer for Flash PICs with USB […]
How World of Warcraft Works
Posted on: 26 Mar 2013
World of Warcraft Players As of July 2007, “World of Warcraft” had more than 9 million active subscribers worldwide [source: Blizzard, press release]. While there’s no publicly-available, comprehensive census of exactly who plays the game, there are several researchers who have studied WoW players extensively. Researcher Nick Yee has used online surveys to poll “World […]
HappyJTAG2 – JTAG AND SPI AVR8 interface using ATmega32
Posted on: 25 Mar 2013
New version released ! V2.45 (Check version list for details) This construction is based on HappyJTAG Idea, to implement JTAG interface into target avr system and debug it remotly via USB, without specific JTAGICE hardware. All job is done by PC softraware. HappyJTAG version is easy , but not powerfull enough.There is barriere with performance, […]
USB to Serial Breakout Board for Prolific PL2303SA
Posted on: 25 Mar 2013
This USB to serial (TTL) converter project is easy to build, it is simple and inexpensive. It is based on the PL2303SA USB to USART bridge from Prolific. The PL2303SA chip is not required an external crystal as the internal clock oscillator is continuously tuning up to USB bus frequency. Having chip in SO-8 packaging […]
How Spotify Works
Posted on: 25 Mar 2013
The Swedish Invasion Spotify isn’t a new technology. It’s actually been around since 2008, when a company named Spotify AB launched the Spotify service in Sweden. Since then, the company has been negotiating licensing issues and slowly rolling out to other countries, including Finland, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Spain and, as of July […]
How Oscillators Work
Posted on: 24 Mar 2013
Oscillation Basics One of the most commonly used oscillators is the pendulum of a clock. If you push on a pendulum to start it swinging, it will oscillate at some frequency — it will swing back and forth a certain number of times per second. The length of the pendulum is the main thing that […]
Tetrapuzz – Tetris clone for AVR using ATmega168
Posted on: 24 Mar 2013
This is a projected that I finished development on over a year ago and I’m just now getting around to documenting it. I wanted to program Tetris from scratch and make it modular so it could be used with different displays. Right now I know it’s working with a KS0108 graphic LCD screen. I also […]
Room thermostat with colour LCD
Posted on: 24 Mar 2013
Gas boilers are usually equipped with a simple sort of controlling element, but they regulate the amount of heating by measuring the water temperature inside the system. Without a proper room thermostat, that works on the principle of measuring the air temperature, is actually a waste of energy. This project offers a very simple and […]
