From the MAKE Flickr photo pool If you should accidentally disable the reset pin while programming an AVR chip, you’ll lose the ability to rewrite to it using common ISP programming devices. To make the chip writable once again, you’ll need a ‘high voltage programmer’ that runs off of 12V. With an Arduino and some […]
Unless you have a new car, you most likely don’t have an iPod input. You can usually just use a cassette adapter, but you can also open it up and just start messing around. If you want to crack it open, take a look at this web site first. It may save you some time […]
Steve Cooley sent in his Arduino Project Box. It has tons-o-prototyping goodness. Check out the link for a lot more information, pictures, and even a video of this cool project. [Thanks Steve] An arduino based prototyping tool and performance interface. Here’s the overall philosophy: A permanently attached set of digital and analog inputs and outputs […]
Instructables user phantazn writes: I bought a wardrobe from ikea to store my work clothes in. While walking around at ikea, I came across a Pax wardrobe with a Komplement pants hanger on rails. Unfortunately, they did not make them in the size for the cheapo Kullen wardrobe I bought, and I sure as hell […]
This LED candle runs from a PIC 12F675 and is powered by 4 AA batteries to make up a 6 volt power supply with a 1N4148 diode that has a 1 volt voltage drop to turn it into the 5 volts that the PIC requires. The LEDs used were 15,000mcd to make the “flame” very […]
An exciting new book was published today, called the Hungry Scientist Handbook (Amazon). Authors Patrick Buckley and Lily Binns write: It’s for gadget-loving gastronomes. For people who really love to play with their food, who make their kitchen into a lab and a workshop. Your brother, your mother, your kid neighbor. Hell, it’s for anyone. […]
This looks like a fun project to make. I don’t think making an Arduino port would be too hard either. You can download the code on the website if you want to try and make your own LED Spectrum Analyzer. This is a simple spectrum analyzer on an 8×8 red/green LED Matrix. An Atmel ATMEGA32 […]
