Hey guys! This is an Instructable for making your own ATtiny85/45 5 LED POV (Persistence Of Vision) display! This is my second Instructable, also for the Elemental LED contest, so drop a comment and vote it up! The total parts cost for this POV display is under $10! (If you get the parts from a […]
$10 ATtiny85/45 POV display!! (works really well) Read More »
Hey Arduino fans! Here is an ‘ible for making a device that turns TVs on when you want them off, and off then you want them on! If you hide it in something inconspicuous, it would make a great April Fools joke or gag gift. And the best part is that the total parts cost
$1.50 Arduino TV Annoyer!! (Turns TVs on when you want them off) using microcontroller Read More »
Intro: My Nikon DSLR has an infrared remote function (remote sold separately) that is really handy, but fairly limited in range. A while ago, I bought a TV-B-Gone Kit from it’s inventor Mitch Altman, and it can turn TV’s off from a great distance. I thought, “Hey, this thing is open source! I can hack
Turn a TV-B-Gone into a super camera remote! Read More »
This instructable will show you how to construct a laser tripwire that can twitter and grab an image from a webcam, as well as execute any command you can put in a bash script. This instructable is actually quite simple and is even suitable as a beginner arduino project. It requires a GNU/linux (or possibly Mac) operating
Laser Tripwire takes a Photo, Uploads it to Twitter Read More »
Learn how to turn your Arduino into an AVR In System Programmer. This will allow you to burn bootloaders onto new chips or program AVRs without a bootloader. Step 1: Materials To begin you will need: * Arduino (I will be using the Uno) * AVR Microcontroller (This tutorial will cover the ATtiny85 & ATmega644)
Turn Your Arduino Into an ISP Read More »
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,
Intro: My Nikon DSLR has an infrared remote function (remote sold separately) that is really handy, but fairly limited in range. A while ago, I bought a TV-B-Gone Kit from it’s inventor Mitch Altman, and it can turn TV’s off from a great distance. I thought, “Hey, this thing is open source! I can hack
Turn a TV-B-Gone into a super camera remote Read More »
Introduction: This is just a time pass hobby project, I am trying to display some pictures (JPEG/PNG/BMP etc) on my 8×8 led dotmatrix display. You can see photos of my 8×8 led dotmatrix display showing some grayscale pictures. The main thing which you may notice is that the brightness of each led depends on the
Introduction: I have learned some thing about TV in one of my B.tech semester but I forgot most of them. Now I refreshed a few basics and tried to implement a monochrome PAL TV signal generator using an AVR micrcontroller. I was using PIC earlier but later I jumped to AVR because I loves the
AVR based monochrome signal generation for a PAL TV using atmega16 micrcontroller Read More »
Introduction: I am interested to draw lines, square, rectangle, circle etc on my TV screen. At first I was confused where to start. While thinking about it, a pencil and an eraser came to my mind. If we have a good pencil, eraser and a paper, then we can draw on it according to our
Drawing geometric figures on a PAL TV using ATmega32 (128×64 resolution) Read More »
