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
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 »
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
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
video Direction Aware Messaging LED Spin Top We recently built a LED spinning top with message display. Its an improved version of a similar top published by Elektor in their December 2008 issue. The Elektor top can be spun only in one direction. The synchronization required to print message on the LEDs arranged along the
With a single LED you can indicate the state of something: on or off. That might be a little boring. With an array of LEDs you can display characters or even some simple blocky graphics. That might add a little pizzaz to a small microcontroller project. You could use individual LEDs wired into a grid
Inspired by various LED Throwies, blinking LEDs and similar instructables I wanted to do my version of an LED controlled by a microcontroller. The idea is to make the LED blinking sequence reprogrammable. This reprogramming can be done with light and shadow, e.g. you could use your flashlight. This is my first instructable, any comments
Programmable LED using Atmel ATtiny13v Microcontroller Read More »
