Clearing out old posts before the new year, some of these might seem ancient. We like this graphic LCD from Adafruit. The ST7565 has a resolution 128×64 pixels, and runs at 3.3volts. Adafruit will even includes a level translator so you can use it with 5volt microcontrollers.
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Digilent Electronics Explorer board
Digilent has come out with an electronics design workbench they call the Electronics Explorer Board. * All-in-one circuit design station * 4-channel, 40MSa Oscilloscope * 4-channel voltmeter * 2 programmable reference voltages * 2-channel Arbitrary Waveform Generator * Triple-Output Power Supply (two programmable) * 32-Channel Logic Analyzer * 32-Channel Pattern Generator * Discrete digital I/O’s […]
MPLABX C18 now available for Mac OSX
The MPLAB C18 Lite (mplabc18-v3.37a) compiler for PIC18 MCUs is now available for the MPLAB X Mac OSX version. Microchip released a new version of MPLAB X Beta IDE Beta Ver. 4.1 for Win32, as well. Thanks IPenguin! Via the forum.
Australian Robotics has Web Platform and #twatch v2
Australian Robotics is the newest Web Platform and #twatch v2 with LCD distributor. If you’re in Australia, check them out. Learn more about becoming a Dangerous Prototypes distributor.
Using Bus Pirate to interface a MT3318 GPS receiver
Krishna used the Bus Pirate to interface a MT3318 GPS receiver. I have used the transparent UART mode of the Bus Pirate to directly access the serial data and send it to other third party softwares to show my location on google maps. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also […]
PIC18F2550 USB HID – IR multimedia control board
This PIC18F2550 USB HID device is an IR multimedia control board designed to support Winamp and MS PowerPoint. Via the contact form.
Barcode challenge for radio operators
Clearing out old posts before the new year, some of these might seem ancient. How to hand decode a QR code transmitted over HAM radio slow scan TV. Via Hack a Day. http://www.swharden.com/blog/2010-11-11-deciphering-qr-code-from-radio-spectrograph/
Air-powered Star Trek door
Clearing out old posts before the new year, some of these might seem ancient. Marc built an air-powered automatic sliding door for his house. Via the contact form.
Seeed Studios’ electronic pet
Clearing out old posts before the new year, some of these might seem ancient. Seeed Studio designed thier own electronic pet: It is a platform for the newbie engineers to be familiar with our company’s products and practice. Every newbie engineer will be added some new ideas or elements on the SEEED PET.
Switched-mode power supply design
Clearing out old posts before the new year, some of these might seem ancient. Great read on switch mode power supplies. From the comments: Maybe you want the index page, or the SMPS page. From the contact form, via Adafruit.
Free PCB Sunday II: Second Christmas special
Happy Boxing Day! Today we’re also giving away some of Sjaak’s SOIC Dangerous Prototyping boards, used in the 74F138 Xmas demo yesterday. This is a specially designed SMD prototype board for working with SOIC parts. It has footprints for: 0805 parts (59x) SOIC chips from .150″ to .3″ (max 112 pins) SOT23-3 26×10 pin through-hole […]
Working with PIC projects
New to PIC microcontrollers? The wiki has a bunch of resources to help you out: PIC quick start tutorials How to compile PIC projects and export firmware for a bootloader How to program a PIC with a programmer On Linux? So is MPLAB X (18F compilers now available)
TV oscilloscope
Clearing out old posts before the new year, some of these might seem ancient. Watch TV on a CRT oscilloscope. Via Hacked Gadgets.
Free PCB Sunday: MMA7455L breakout board
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. Our PCBs are made through Seeed Studio’s Fusion board service. This week we’re giving away two […]
Support is available on Christmas
I2C giving you the Christmas blues? Need help upgrading your new Bus Pirate or Logic Sniffer? Support is available on Christmas, just give us a shout in the forum. Happy holidays from everyone at Dangerous Prototypes!
Autofire mouse button
Peter added an auto-fire button to his computer mouse for his gaming console. Via Hack a Day.
Simple embedded Linux development board
There’s an ongoing discussion of an AT91SAM9260 (uC)Linux development board in the forum. This chip is just amazing, it can boot from serial or parallel flash, internal memory, or enumerate as a USB serial terminal for firmware flashing. Check out more features of this massive ARM processor in the AT91SAM9260 quick start guide on the […]
TI EZ430 EZProbe
simpleavr made a logic probe out of a TI EZ430 dongle for a 43oh.com contest: this is a simple logic probe project based on TI EZ430 dongle. i took advantage of a free offer on a couple of ez430s from TI in september 2010. they are very handy and fun in trying out small code […]
Instructables “Hack a Day edition”
Instructables has started eBook collections of how-tos you can download for your favorite eReader. We’ll be checking out the Hack a Day edition. Via Hack a Day.
Building an engineer
Jeremy presented what it really means to be an engineer. We all know that engineers build things, but what does it take to build an engineer? In this video, I talk about my open source hardware projects, how I became an engineer, and how I work to get other people involved with engineering and science. […]