Remember the Tool Carying Robot that we featured here many months ago? Well there is now a new remote controller for that robot, the controller is universal so it can be adapted to control other robots as well. The design is based on a Parallax microcontroller and Xbee chips for communication. Thanks for the tip John
Andres Guzman-Ballen, a Senior at the University of Illinois studying Computer Engineering sent us an email about his latest project. It is a Wireless Electric Mountainboard. You can see the video below of the hard wired version that he built when he wanted to debug some issues he was having with the wireless setup. “I chose a mountainboard because the truck design allows the rider to carve more since the
Fresh off the assembly line… We have a new kit that is being released today. It’s a universal IR Jammer which can be used to jam any infrared remote control device. The Infrared Remote Control Jammer allows you to render all IR remote controls inoperative! The microcontroller in this design allows for all 6 of the main IR frequencies to be targeted making this unit universal. It works by corrupting
Hacked Gadgets Forum member Alexander125 from Romania is using his ioBridge IO-204 to help him secure his house. “I’ve been recently working on a sistem to keep my house safe while I’m away.Using the IO-204 module I’m building a simple sistem to monitor power consumption in the house, movement(if there is any) using PIR motion sensors and the doors or windows. For the interface with the IO-204 I decided to
Len Bayles has designed a great looking Meter Clock which is based on the Atmel AT89C2051 microcontroller. The design is similar to the Multimeter Clock that I created. Len provides the code and schematic on his site so you can make your own. “The software in the microcontroller handles the count for the time. It “talks” to a 4 channel Digital to Analog converter to derive the voltage to position
Sparkmuseum user on Youtube demonstrates his Wireless Pan Tilt Project. It is so responsive that it looks like it is a wired connection but it is wireless. He is using an xBee to communicate the data generated by a Parallax Basic Stamp over to a Pololu servo module. Thanks for the tip John.
If you are looking to have a bit more fun with your Arduino why not use it to launch some model rockets! That is what the guys from NortHACKton did. They have a full schematic available on their site. Thanks Martin. “It’s a very simple little board, consisting of a driver chip and a relay and the connection to the dot matrix display. I chose to use the ULN2003 to
