Kenneth Finnegan is working on a project to allow his microcontroller projects talk to the magical world of Ethernet. Without special systems like an ioBridge module a typical project would only dream of speaking to other systems unless a computer was introduced in the mix. Kenneth is using the Microchip ENC28J60 to do the heavy lifting in this case and by using a proto board from ElectroBoards the final result
UPDATE: The project is complete have a look at everything here. Nerf Gun Hack part 1, part 2, part 3 This is the final part of the Nerf Gun Hack. Check out part 1 which goes over the how the chosen gun works and part 2 which goes over the electronics used in the project. This time a completed perfboard version of the project is built and the system is
Collin Cunningham made a great video about the benefits of using perfboard for prototyping circuits. Via: Adafruit “When you think “DIY electronics,” one of the first images that likely comes to mind is of parts and wire soldered to a standard piece of perforated circuit board — and that makes sense. Perfboard is widely used because it’s so versatile. Essentially, it’s just a grid of potential solder-point connections.”
GPS technology is cheap enough that we are starting to see GPS being used in some cool new ways. You may remember this GPS game that we featured before. Markus has made a project he calls the Little Reverse GeoCache, it is based on a similar project that was made by Mikal Hart. The box can only be opened when it is in the correct location, the trick is that
I had great fun working on a cool Multimeter Clock project which got picked up by Design News for their Gadget Freak series. I thought it would be cool to have a clock that looks like an old Simpson 260 multimeter. The clock consists of three multimeters, the first meter displays hours, the second displays minutes and the last displays seconds. A 16F628A PIC microcontroller keeps track of time and
Looks like Texas Instruments is making a big push into the hobbyist microcontroller market with this new product called the Launch Pad. All microcontroller manufacturers have a development platform available so what makes this announcement by TI something special? The price! You can pick up one of these for only $4.30 with free worldwide shipping if you get it from the TI store. You might have to put your order
Richard Sudney (Youtube user 2sudsy) has been building Crystal Sets since he was 9 years old. He is a bit older than that now and his passion hasn’t drifted, it has just been honed over the years. Via: Make “A crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set, is a very simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio. It needs no battery or power source and runs
