Introduction Ever fancied building your own camera controller? IMPORTANT NOTE: Capacitors for the MAX619 are 470n or 0.47u. The schematic is correct, but the component list was wrong – updated. This is an entry into the Digital Days competition so if you find it useful, please rate/vote/comment favourably! If you reallly like it and are a stumbler, […]
If you are into geeking it out with projects of the electronical kind, then you have likely wanted to create a dot matrix display or a POV. To do this you will need to have a font file or table to read the characters from. There are alot of ways to get this file. The
LED Scolling Dot Matrix Font & Graphics Generator 5×8 5×7 8×8 Read More »
We’ve all seen LED fans that you can put in your computer to make it look cool. They usually come in blue, sometimes red or green and consist of a basic PC fan with 4 bright LED’s mounted in the 4 corners. They source their voltage from the fan’s power input, so if you’re using
Color Changing Digital PC Fan Controller using Microcontroller ATMega168 Read More »
Amazing 3 dimensional LED display. 64 LEDs makes up this 4 by 4 by 4 cube, controlled by an Atmel Atmega16 microcontroller. Each LED can be addressed individually in software, enabling it to display amazing 3d animations! 8x8x8 LED cube now available, by popular demand: http://www.instructables.com/id/Led-Cube-8x8x8/ First of all, you need quite a bit of
LED Cube 4x4x4 using Microcontroller Atmega16 Read More »
You can’t calculate binary values “as is” on most handheld calculators and using the windows one is just a pain, so i decided to make my very own (binary only) calculator. This calculator supports all the basic functions like : NOT,OR,AND,XOR, addition,subtraction,multiplication,division and modulo. So join me as we are going to enter the world of ones and zeros
LED Binary Calculator using Microcontroller ATtiny2313 Read More »
I recently started programming AVR chips, namely the ATTiny85. They can be programmed using C, compilers are readily available in Ubuntu, and you can do a LOT with them – just search for avr on this site! Anyway, I was having some trouble with my project today – the LED wouldn’t flash! I couldn’t figure
Debugging AVR code in Linux with simavr using Microcontroller ATTiny85 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 Microcontroller AT90USB1286 Read More »
These Android figures are cute, but they don’t actually do anything. Let’s change that. Have a look at the video: These are the steps to make an Android that reacts to sound, moves it’s head, sends out Morse Code messages and displays some cool light patterns. In the video the LEDs in the body are
Mechanized Android Figure using Microcontroller ATtiny44A Read More »
I really like nixie and numitron clocks, but I never worked with them before. So I decided to give it a go. I choose numitrons because of 2 reasons: first of all nixies need a higher voltage than numitrons to work. Nixies need around 170V DC and numitrons only 4,5V so they are safer to
Numitron clock & thermometer using Microcontroller atmega48 Read More »
Nokia manufactures a wide variety of cell phones and many of their cheaper phones contain simple LCD’s which may be used in microcontroller projects. There is one particular LCD model that is used in a wide variety of their phones and is often referred to as simply a “Nokia LCD“, or “Nokia 6100 LCD”. I
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