Gotta love microcontrollers.They do lots of stuff … you can find them in computer mice , traffic lights , toys , and almost all electronic devices nowadays. Well , this is a project that pushes an 8-bit ATMega32 microcontroller to the limits. As you guessed from the title , it is a game system. Here […]
Build the Penguin game system using ATMega32/644 microcontroller Read More »
video Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe with RGB LEDs RGB LED game to play Tic-Tac-Toe for two players. Uses 2 AVR Microcontrollers: Mega16 and Mega8. RGB LEDs allow each user to choose his/her color to represent Cross/Nut. For more details, click: Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe with RGB LEDs
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Got some scavenged stepper motors from printers/disk drives/etc lying around? Some probing with an ohmeter, followed by some simple driver code on your microprocessor and you’ll be stepping in style. Step 1 Get to Know Steppers Basically, you’re going to need to figure out where all the little wires go. First step is to figure
Drive a Stepper Motor with an AVR Microprocessor using ATTiny2313 microcontroller Read More »
In this Instructable, find out how to control LCD’s with a ATmega8 and Bascom. You will need: – Breadboard – Wires – ATmega8 – Programmer – Bascom AVR (There is also a demo version for Free) – 10k resistor – 100k resistor – 10k variable resistor – 7805 Voltage regulator – 100 µF 16V electrolytic
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When flashing with digital compact cameras, the camera usually uses several small flashes before making the actual picture. This is o.k. if the built-in flash is the only flash you have, but if you want to use an external second flash you have a problem: The second flash, also called slave-flash, fires if the master-flash
Slaveflash-trigger for digital cameras with Attiny24 Read More »
The Atmel ATTiny85 chip is an 8-pin MCU that is totally awesome. If you’ve been programming with the bigger boys (the ATMega series), these are a nice adventure – you’re rather limited in the number of output pins, but a creative design gives us a lot of flexibility in a very small package. You’ve seen
Apple-style LED pulsing using a $1.30 MCU using ATTiny85 microcontroller Read More »
here’s how to convert otherwise reasonable quality video into pixelated garbage and play it on a 2 color 8×8 led matrix, with no sound and only moderate sync. ingredients: – (1) 8×8 2 color led matrix – (1) atmel avr atmega168 – (2) 74hc595 shift register – (1) 3.3V regulator – (1) a linux system
Watch futurama on an 8×8 pixel screen using atmega168 microcontroller Read More »
RFID is the craze, found everywhere – from inventory systems to badge ID systems. If you’ve ever been to a department store and walked through those metal-detector-looking things at the entrace/exit points, then you’ve seen RFID. There are several places to find good information on setting up RFID, and this instructable focuses on installing the
AVR/Arduino RFID Reader with UART Code in C Read More »
In my life i deal with lots of sensitive electronics every day and frying these electronics is a big concern when touching them. Most people think its hard to fry electronics with static electricity. Its not, one touch could send your $100 graphics card down the drain if you aren’t properly grounded. Do you really
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The other day I was wanting to check on one of my AVR‘s but I was upstairs and god knows it was too much of a hassle to go downstairs to where the microcontroller was. But, there were two idle computers sitting upstairs next to my lazy butt, so I had a half-day from work
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