Connecting a keyboard to a microcontroller project could be a useful addition. Even if it is to be used as a code input device it could be more convenient than using a key matrix. The guys over at Nerd Kits have put together an informative video that is based on the NerdKit however it is applicable to any microcontroller. "The PS/2 Interface is quite easy to implement. To send
Droky sent in a great DIY Game of Life Build that uses a PIC 12F683. There are lots of details and he also provides the board layout and the PIC code so you could make your own. The capacitive sensors are a nice touch, the board also looks very well done! Here is the English Google translated version. "As it did not have enough memory on the PIC, I
Scary Lady bought a skeleton and hooked up some pneumatics to it to bring it to life. She takes it to the next level by controlling it with a DMX system. That way she can control the lights, skeleton movement and music! I bet there will be some super scared kids in her yard this year.
Here is good way to recycle some of those old CD-ROM drives that you probably have laying around. Jason Dorie took inspiration from my Hard Drive Clock for his build. You can see the details in these three posts. CD-ROM Clock Part 1, CD-ROM Clock Part 2, CD-ROM Clock Part 3. “Basically I’m using the motor and CD holder from the drive, as well as most of the original
Halloween is a great time to whip out the soldering iron to make some cool and frightening projects. We have featured tons of cool DIY Halloween projects over the years like the Halloween prop shown above, they are all inspirational! This season we want to see your creations. Enter Contest Here To enter you will need to post your project in the Hacked Gadgets Forum, if you don’t have
If you get a bit queasy when seeing someone swat a fly please skip to the next article. This microcontroller that has been mounted to the back of this beetle has the ability to drive him as he flies. I can just imagine the possibilities that will soon be reality. Take a few hundred of these with cameras on them, have some real time computers control them to snap
Watch the video above to get an appreciation of what the double pendulum is capable of when it is free wheeling. Have a look at the furuta pendulum project that Oyvindbjo made at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I have added some of the calculations from Wikipedia for some amusement (I have no idea how to decipher it). "For swing-up it uses feedback linearization and a controller that
