Gotta love microcontrollers.They do lots of stuff … you can find them in computer mice , traffic lights , toys , and almost all electronic devices nowadays. Well , this is a project that pushes an 8-bit ATMega32 microcontroller to the limits. As you guessed from the title , it is a game system. Here […]
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Got some scavenged stepper motors from printers/disk drives/etc lying around? Some probing with an ohmeter, followed by some simple driver code on your microprocessor and you’ll be stepping in style. Step 1 Get to Know Steppers Basically, you’re going to need to figure out where all the little wires go. First step is to figure
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In this Instructable, find out how to control LCD’s with a ATmega8 and Bascom. You will need: – Breadboard – Wires – ATmega8 – Programmer – Bascom AVR (There is also a demo version for Free) – 10k resistor – 100k resistor – 10k variable resistor – 7805 Voltage regulator – 100 µF 16V electrolytic
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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
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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
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This instructable will show you how to easily modify a readily available plastic case to hold and protect your AVR Dragon PCB. Atmel promotes their AVR Dragon as a low cost development product tool for use with their AVR microcrontollers. While the product does come in a fancy red cardboard box, unlike all the other
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video USB RFID Reading Keyboard Demo This is a step by step tutorial on how to build a RFID tag reading USB keyboard using the USnooBie. This tutorial is provided with the project files. The code files are heavily commented with references to relevant documentation. Watch the two part videos below to see how
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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
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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
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