This is basically a knockoff of the Hypnocube, instead of being 64 LEDs, thus costing at least $150 to make, I made a smaller version of 8 LEDs for under $30. The result is a 2x2x2 cube where each light is independently controllable. I’m not absolutely sure how many colors you can get from each […]
This instructable shows how to control a group of led’s with one microprocessor output. The micro I will be using is an Atmel Attiny2313. Step: 1 Parts and Tools Parts: Attiny2313 (got 5 free samples from Atmel) 20 pin socket Resistors (any size will work, depending on your setup. I will explain later) 5v regulator
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This is a simple color sensor using Atmega16 MCU and can sense Red ,Green and Blue color. How it works: the sensor consist from LDR sensor and RGB LED ,so when the object putted on the sensor the light that emitting from RGB LED will reflected from the object to LDR sensor and read it by ADC of ATMEGA16 as
After Christmas I was in the situation that my nephew’s birthday celebration came near. I asked him if he had a special on his wish list and he told me that he doesn’t have a wish at all, for the moment. He still had not played with every toy he got for christmas. We decided
Ambient Light Gift Badge using ATTiny13 microcontroller Read More »
Every year the holiday season rolls around and I get stuck on what to give for my friends and family. People always say that it’s better to make the gift yourself than buy it at a store so this year I did just that. The first displays a name or basic image when waved through
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There are numerous posts on Instructables about how to make a flickering LED candle. This is my version. The project requires the following components: 1. Tiny45 AVR Microcontroller (Tiny13 would also do) 2. 1W Warm white (or yellow) LED 3. Perspex tube 4. AA or AAA size batteries- 4 (alkaline or NiMH) 5. PCB stock
YAFLC (Yet Another Flickering LED Candle) using Tiny45 microcontroller Read More »
Do you have a pile of AA rechargeable batteries in your drawer? Some are old, some are new, but which sets would you bring with your camera on your next trip, and which ones are past their useful life? I like using rechargeable batteries, but I’m certain that some of them are not living up
Rechargeable Battery Capacity Tester using ATMega168 microcontroller Read More »
So, you want to program a bootloaded AVR. Or possibly, you have an Arduino Lilypad and no way to program it. There are a few solutions available to you: You could buy a USB to FTDI adapter (available at Adafruit, Sparkfun, etc), you could buy a simple FTDI cable, or you could build something. I
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I’m an Electrical Engineering major and each year my college’s branch of IEEE competes in a student hardware competition. Last year’s competition was inspired by the natural disasters in Haiti and Chile (the competition was held one week after the earthquake in Japan). This was a very large project that was tackled by a group
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If you have been playing with microcontrollers and electronics then you have likely seen LED dot matrix displays and other projects that use shift registers like 7-segment displays and more. This instructable goes over a quick intro to the 74HC595 8-Bit Serail to Parallel Shift Register with Latch and how to interface it to an
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