September 26, 2006

Atmel AVR POV

  Trimbitas Sorin has created a simple POV (Persistence of vision) kit using AVR microcontroller. If you want to build your own there is code and a schematic available on his site. “This is my first serious(the first one was a one LED blinker) AVR project 🙂 I searched the Internet for a cool looking and easy to build project with ATTiny2313 and I end up on this page,it was

Selecting a Serial Bus

There is a good article about selecting the right microcontroller serial bus in this months Electronic Products magazine. Many people are like me, they use what they know. This article has a good explanation of the differences so that we can make a better informed decision for the next product. “At the heart of most of today’s advanced electronic products is a microcontroller that communicates with one or more peripheral

LEGO Full Auto Book Scanner

  The best inventions are ones that eliminate repetition, this automatic book scanner does just that. Believe it or not it was constructed using LEGO. ” After the invention of hyperpaper, I began to scan my books. Soon I found out that what I expected was true — It was awesomely BOREING! If this drudgery were to be automated! Scanning a book involves picking up the book from the scanner