Introduction Smart home technology has been surging in popularity over the past decade. According to a recent poll, 46% of consumers believe that it is important that their current or next home has smart technology. Many smart home technologies are expensive to implement and require a third-party company to monitor and support the system. We […]
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Introduction Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and specific physical connections that allow electronic music devices and computers to communicate with each other. For our final project, we created a MIDI glove that is capable of connecting to a virtual synthesizer on our computer and controlling
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This past summer I had the opportunity to work for computer science PhD candidate Ryo Suzuki under the guidance of Tom Yeh of the computer science department. My task was developing printed circuit boards for experiments for human computer interaction (HCI). The goal was to create a surface which a magnet could be moved to create
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Introduction The Utah State University (USU) Materials Physics Group (MPG) is interested in the performanceof Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) microcontrollers in space conditions. Microcontrollers are commonlyused on CubeSats, small relatively inexpensive satellites that are flown in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ataltitudes of ~160 km-2000 km. There is a large area of interest in COTS
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This article compares the ATmega and STM32 microcontrollers so that you can choose the best one for your own tech product, by considering overall cost and system cost, as well as the upward migration path. Comparing ATmega and STM32 microcontrollers is a bit like comparing apples and oranges. At a very general level, they are
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Greetings to HackerBox Hackers around the world! HackerBox 0044 brings us PCB Design, AVR Device Programming, Serial RGB LED Applications, Pro ESP32 WiFi OLED Development, and much more. This Instructable contains information for getting started with HackerBox 0044, which can be purchased here while supplies last. If you would like to receive a HackerBox like this right
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Project Introduction Temperature is an important indicator of the environment and is used as a control parameter in many projects. The temperature alarm can be used for smart home appliances or environmental indicators of temperature measurement, can be used for practical electronic temperature alarm, such as the measurement of computer case temperature, but also for
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Many of us learnt to program on a Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro or similar – 8/16 bit Home Computers. These computers booted straight up to a command prompt and encouraged you to write code and play with them. You can now make your own (that runs JavaScript) in a few hours using a
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In this instructible, I will guide you through the use of the WF32 as an HTTP server that hosts a website that can be used to control servos and a stepper motor. The purpose of this was to create an iPad mount that allowed users to log in from a remote location and point the
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The ESP8266 is a wonderful microcontroller. They can be purchased cheaply and have built in wifi. In this guide I will not go over how to flash the ESP8266 module with the basic firmware as this is covered on the http://ESP8266basic.com web site in detail. All the parts to build this project can be found on ebay
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