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
How To Make A Grounding Wrist Band Read More »
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
Telnet to your Arduino/AVR! Read More »
This instructable will show you how to easily modify a readily available plastic case to hold and protect your AVR Dragon PCB. Atmel promotes their AVR Dragon as a low cost development product tool for use with their AVR microcrontollers. While the product does come in a fancy red cardboard box, unlike all the other
A protective case for the Atmel AVR Dragon using AVR Read More »
A while back, I posted up a quick and dirty “el cheapo” method of getting started programming the Atmel AVR series chips: Ghetto Programmer (version 1.0) Since then, I’ve vamped, re-vamped, and otherwise improved my setup. Thought it’d be nice to document it. The goal was to get a flexible, compact, portable, use-anywhere, AVR-based microcontroller
Ghetto Development Environment Using Microcontrollers Read More »
video USB RFID Reading Keyboard Demo This is a step by step tutorial on how to build a RFID tag reading USB keyboard using the USnooBie. This tutorial is provided with the project files. The code files are heavily commented with references to relevant documentation. Watch the two part videos below to see how
USB RFID Reading Keyboard using USnooBie Read More »
When I ran across the Jar of Fireflies Instructable sometime this past summer, I knew I had to build it. Full credit to Keso for an excellent set of instructions! I wouldn’t have gotten to the point of developing the firefly behavior without such a solid base for building the hardware, as well as firmware to start it
New Jar of Fireflies Read More »
Last year I modified a blue LED fan with RGB LED’s to enhance the look of my server case. Last summer I built a gaming computer and ever since I wanted to light it up with multiple controlled lights and fans. I finally figured out an easy interface and designed a simple network (the “fan
FanBus Digital Fan and LED Interface for PC using ATMega168 microcontroller Read More »
Microcontrollers (MCUs) are fantastic little ICs that give an extra element of versatility to your electronics, robotics or other project. But they’re really not much use on their own. To function, all MCUs need some sort of support components, and a board to live on — one example of course being the famous Arduino. These
Augmenting a Microcontroller using AVR Read More »
After testing many systems development for PIC and AVR microcontrollers, none satisfy me. So I created this system with breadboard that has satisfied me. Step 1: More space free In this development system, I put two protoboards turned 180 degrees from each other. The space that is left to just enough space to insert a
Development system for PIC and AVR microcontrollers Read More »
