June 15, 2010

NXTitzki - Basketball playing LEGO Robot
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Matthias Paul Scholz made a cool Basketball playing LEGO Robot called NXTitzk, the name is based on a German NBA player. It can play in a user controlled mode or a fully autonomous mode.  An ultrasonic sensor is used to judge how far the basket is so that the correct throw can be performed. If you would like to make your own have a look at the detailed build instructions

AVR Fusebit Repair Circuit
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If you have ever set the wrong fusebit when programming your AVR have a look at this AVR Fusebit Repair Circuit which could help you repair the chip. There is also a parallel high voltage version to have a look at. Thanks Pawel “Did you make a mistake while programming fusebits, or purposely disabled reset pin (RSTDISBL) or ISP programming (SPIEN)? No need to buy or make inconvenient HV programmer