Easy Input is a head-controlled keyboard and mouse input device for disabled users. The system uses accelerometers to detect the user’s head tilt in order to direct mouse movement on the monitor. The clicking of the mouse is activated by the user’s eye blinking through a reflective sensor. The keyboard function is implemented by allowing […]
Head-Controlled Keyboard And Mouse using ATmega32 Read More »
Driving a shift register using an AVR chip’s built-in hardware is really quite easy. Most of their offerings have an SPI module, or Serial Peripheral Interface. A shift register is exactly that, a peripheral device that communicates via a serial line. All we need to do is hook up our connections and use a few
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The purpose of this project was to create a simple, portable device that would periodically read sensors and then store the sensor data so it could be retrieved later. The result is the HexiLogger, “hexi” because it can support up to six different sensor inputs and “logger” because it will store the input data on
HexiLogger, an Arduino based data logger using ATmega328 Read More »
This hack is about rewriting the firmware of PLL FM transmitters based on AVR microcontrollers to add more functionalities. They’re commonly available on eBay from various sellers and for prices ranging from $40 to $80, depending mostly on the RF output power. If you don’t know if a similar transmitter is based on an AVR
Enhancing An FM Transmitter’s Firmware using ATmega48 Read More »
Introduction: A good while back, I made the 1-key-keyboard project. Ever since it has always been in the back of my mind that the ATTiny microcontroller, which I used in this project, had still 3 IO ports which were unused. Only recently I’ve found the time to expand my old project in the most obvious
4-key keyboard using ATtiny85 Read More »
I spent part of an afternoon developing a hardware RSS reader (most of my time was spent on the python side of things). It’s pretty simple and uses an AVR microcontroller connected to a computer via a serial cable. Hardware I am using the Dragon Rider 500 as a development board. This provides all of
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Introduction We decided to create a virtual archery game for our ECE 4760 final project. This game consists of an ATmega1284P microcontroller, a TV for display, and multiple pieces of hardware. All of these devices communicate together to simulate a three-round game of archery with a target that is 20 feet away from the user.
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Essentially another tutorial involving controlling DC motors. In this post I’m going to first alter a robot arm I had built previously from a beginners kit so that it can be controlled from Arduino. Then I’m going to write a series of posts on different ways to control the robot arm using Processing and other
Arduino – Modifying a Robot Arm using ATmega328 Read More »
As you might be able to tell from recent posts, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with an Arduino. I’ve now got at least one project that I’d like to make a little more permanent, rather than it just being a bunch of components on a breadboard. The easiest option would probably be
Honey I Shrunk The Arduino using ATmega328p Read More »
Introduction A polygraph (often and incorrectly called a ‘lie detector’) is a machine which plots in real time several human biological signals such as pulse rate, galvanic skin resistance (GSR), blood pressure, and breathing rate. This machine, in conjunction with a certified examiner, is then used to analyze a subject’s stress during interrogation with the
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