USB Geiger Counter
Sylvain submitted his latest project: a geiger counter with a USB interface. Thanks for sharing your nice project! USB Geiger Counter [link]
Category : Microcontrollers
28 Jan
How to drive a RGB LED with a PIC
This simple project shows you how to drive a RGB LED with a PIC. Interesting, colorful, and expandable. With a little work, you can replicate the Ford Focus’ best feature with this: its configurable interior lighting. How to drive a RGB LED with a PIC [link][via]
07 Jan
Build a Clock into your PowerMac tower
How to mod your G5 PowerMac Case to display a the time. No alteration to the case is needed – the LEDs are arranged to match the G5 tower’s mesh grill pattern - which makes this hack even better! Build a Clock into your PowerMac tower [link] [via]
19 Dec
DIY Arduino MIDI Drum Kit
This isn’t exactly a set of instructions, but anyone familiar with the Arduino should be able to make up something similar to this. With nice pads (think recycled mousepads) and some nice packaging, this could make up a great electronic drum set. I’ll be exploring this in the next year as I’d really like to [...]
12 Dec
DIY Low speed AVR oscilloscope
This is a pretty sweet project: a DIY low speed AVR oscilloscope. Complete source code, schematics diagram and pictures are all available on Serasidis Vassilis’s website. DIY Low speed AVR oscilloscope [link] [via]
12 Dec
Arduino-Powered Holiday Lights
Wanting to take full control of his Christmas tree, Brian from Hackszine used the open-source Arduino microcontroller to drive a homemade grid array of 64 LEDs. Pretty nice. Again, a nice project that can be decontextualized, rehashed and reinterpreted in the true hacker/xmas spirit. Arduino-Powered Holiday Lights [link] [via]
23 Sep