Educational

MIDI Glove Controller - Cornell University ECE 4760 Final Project

The new batch of Cornell University ECE 4760 Final Project are in! There are tons of cool projects as usual, everything from Human Tetris to this MIDI Glove Controller project by Anson Dorsey, Eric Gunther and Jonathon Smythe. The project is based around an Atmel Mega644 microcontroller which has lots of processing capability and all of the projects are developed in WINAVR/GCC. Since the system is outputting MIDI you are

Digital TTL Clock

Kenneth Finnegan who shared his DIY Binary Clock Build with us has made another clock. This time it’s a Digital TTL Clock. This design brings back memories of college when I had to design a mock photocopier circuit that allowed the entry of number of copies and decremented the number till it was down to zero. I also used 7 segment displays and the same driver chip. I have to

Rotary Encoder and Shift Registers Explained

Chris Savage from Savage Circuits goes over the basics of Rotary Encoder and Shift Registers in the second of his new video series called Savage Circuits TV. You can see all three videos here. If you are wondering why there is lots of Parallax gear used in the videos, that is because Chris works for Parallax. 🙂 To read more about Rotary Encoders have a look at the Wikipedia page

Basement Design Revolution

I have seen the writing on the wall for many years now. It is now possible for a single person or a small team to crank out physical items just like the big players with huge factories. In this new age where circuit designs can be cranked out on the coffee table and sent out to China for production the next day is fantastic! The internet has shortened the gap

Carnegie Mellon University Business Start-up Tips

Carnegie Mellon University recorded a great talk about starting up a business. Steven Fleck who started ClearCount Medical Solutions moderated the panel. The panel members are Bryan Kaplan of Collaborative Fusion, Nathan Martin of Deep Local, Jessica Trybus of Etcetera Edutainment and David Chen of Fooala. It looks like CMU is doing a good job of fostering business building acumen into their current students. Nice to see that Nathan is

NerdKits Multi-Panel LED Array using SPI

Here is a good video about communicating amongst multiple microcontrollers. In this case they are NerdKits that are distributing sign data so that a huge Multi-Panel LED Array can be built. Even if you aren’t interested in the project have a look at it for the SPI info. “In this project, we put a new twist on our old idea, and modified the LED Array into a giant multi panel