Vinu from India has created an interesting alternative to using a bluetooth or other wireless mouse, by using an ATmega8 as a base for an infrared to USB interface. It receives signals from a TV infrared remote control and converts...
For those looking for a cheap in-circuit programming device for your TI MSP430-based projects, Kerry Wong has documented a simple and inexpensive method of making your own using the MSP430 Launchpad board. As the board includes flash emulation hardware, this...
Student and embedded software enthusiast Haris Andrianakis has designed and created a small digital thermometer based around the Atmel ATmega8 microcontroller. However unlike most simple projects he has moves past the prototyping stage and completed the project by making a...
Not content to leave his Freetronics EtherTen board floating in the wilderness, Brisvegan David has created and published the files to print a case for the board using Autodesk Inventor 2013, with great results: Very well designed, and a practical...
For those interested in measuring their heart activity with an electrocardiograph without bothering a hospital may find this project of interest. By using some really inexpensive and simple circuitry connected to a PC with a sound card, Scott Harden has...
Originally released via an incredibly popular Kickstarter project, the Gameduino has become available in the wider retail arena for over twelve months. Based on an FPGA chip, it takes the load from the Arduino with regards to video, sound and...
Self-described vegan cyborg 'rainycatz' works and experiments with wearable electronics, and during a 24-hour hackathon designed another one of her projects - a temperature-sensing t-shirt based around the Lilypad Arduino. Apart from displaying whether a temperature is considered to be...
Randy Saragfan from Instructables has described how to interface the dial from a rotary telephone with a PIC 16F877 micrcontroller. The end results with a MCU that can determine which number has been dialled. Although this may seem mundane, Randy's...
When designing projects or even product prototypes, the user interface can often suffer to the detriment of the final design. Or the lone designer just doesn't have time to create a nice user interface. To solve these problems and make...
