OH NO!!! You’ve screwed up and now the Arduino bootloader on your ‘duino is gone! What are you going to do? Go spend money for a programmer??? Well don’t! I’ve got a solution that only requires your ‘duino and some wires! So its not the end of the world, it is just a minor glitch […]
Programming Arduino Bootloader without Programmer using ATmega168 microcontroller Read More »
This Instructable will be about designing a music player from using various building blocks. You will understand the communication between the microcontroller, memory, computer, LCD display, RTC, IR remote, and the music file decoder. I will try my best to to teach you in a way so that you can design your own projects using
Music Playing Alarm Clock using ATmega644 microcontroller Read More »
I have seen plenty of Instructables showing how to work with microprocessors, but they all assume that you have worked with them before and know what you are doing. I have not seen an Instructable that takes you from nothing and builds on each step. What we will do here is to start with a
Getting Started with Atmel AVR and BASCOM using attiny26 microcontroller Read More »
* you’ve got your arduino with atmega168 and you bought an atmega328 at you local electronics store. It doesn’t have an arduino bootloader * you want to make a project that doesn’t use arduino – just a regular AVR chip (like the USBTinyISP) – you have a clean attiny2313/attiny48 etc that you want to burn
How to program a AVR (arduino) with another arduino using attiny2313 microcontroller Read More »
This instructable was inspired by my first AVR microcontroller project that I’ve been working on for some time now. I wanted to start learning more about the AVR microcontroller and see how much I could do with the minimum amount of hardware… no extra chips, simple components, etc… just my AVR and my code so
Creating a charlieplexed LED grid to run on ATTiny85 Read More »
This tutorial will show you how to build a jacket with turn signals that will let people know where you’re headed when you’re on your bike. We’ll use conductive thread and sewable electronics so your jacket will be soft and wearable and washable when you’re done. Enjoy! A version of this tutorial is also on
Turn signal biking jacket using microcontroller Read More »
The Siemens DLO7135 Dot matrix LED is one amazing piece of optoelectronics. It’s billed as a 5×7 Dot Matrix Intelligent Display (r) with Memory/Decoder/Driver. Along with that memory, it’s got a 96-character ASCII display set with upper and lower case characters, a built-in character generator and multiplexer, four levels of light intensity, and it all
Using a Dot Matrix LED with an Arduino and Shift Register Read More »
This instructable shows how to use some freely available code, an arduino, and a standard magnetic stripe reader to scan and display the data stored on magnetic stripe cards such as credit cards, student IDs, etc. I was inspired to post this after reading the intro to magnetic stripe reading and Stripe Snoop that is
Arduino magnetic stripe decoder using microcontroller Read More »
Christmas is coming closer, so here is my contribution to put you in the right mood. It is a blog hitcounter, that rings a bell. Literally. It puts a smile on your face, every time someone hits your blog. It consists of an Arduino board, a bell, a servo and a couple of lines of
Arduino XMAS hitcounter using AVR microcontroller Read More »
The LED strips are mounted on an outdoor trellace which functions as a lightning simulator, outdoor breathalyzer, graphic equalizer synced to music, and a few other effects with sound. Materials: 8 12v RGB Waterproof Flexible LED Strips 10ft long (usledsupply.com) – $800 8 RGB 4A/Ch Amps (usledsupply.com) – $200 8 RGB 4A/Ch Amps with TTL input (usledsupply.com) –
The Lightning Simulator/Breathalyzer/Graphic Equalizer – Using Arduino Powered Read More »
