How-to design and fabricate a project case using free software and a CNC mill. Thanks McZ!
Author Archives: Ian
RGB LED Tetris game
RGB LED Tetris Game based on a NerdKit Microcontroller and some logic chips to drive the multiplexed display. Via Hacked Gadgets.
‘Complete’ PIC24 tutorial
This how-to is a complete crash course on PIC24 programming. It covers just about every feature: inputs and outputs, timers, interrupts, serial communication, I2C, analog to digital converters, SPI, etc. Each peripheral has examples with step-by-step calculations and excerpts from real datasheets. Thanks McZ!
Free PCB Sunday: Bus Blaster
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 is the first version of […]
Christmas postal delays from China
Get your orders in now if you want Christmas gifts from Seeed Studio. The holidays are really busy for Hongkong Post, and mail from China can take up to 7 additional days. That means your orders from Seeed Studio will not get on the plane as quick as before.You will have to wait 3 – […]
AVR programming tutorial
Spend your weekend with the final installment of Hack a Day’s AVR programming tutorial: compiling code.
Bus Pirate on the iPhone
Bus Pirate hacking from a hacked iPhone: Ok so theres a couple of caveats… First, this was done with a v2go, this BP has the serial connection broken out to three pads, easy to connect to. No 5V in pad though, bummer. Second, you need a level shifter, the phone is 3.3V TTL, the BP […]
Open source Kinect driver $2,000 bounty
Adafruit is offering a $2000 bounty on an open source driver for the new Kinect controller for the XBOX360. Evidently is caused a bit of a stir.
Tiny USB business card
A cool USB business card. This one is a little different than some of the mass storage device business cards we’ve covered before. It enumerates as a keyboard and dumps contact info into notepad. Via Hack a Day.
USB IR Toy prototype testing
Testing a USB IR Toy update, the infrared light is visible to the camera. This design uses three LEDs. Two 50degree wide-angle LEDs on the side, and a 25 degree narrow beam LED in the center. Total current is 100mA, could be pushed to 200mA. Using 3 LEDs let us use a smaller current limiting […]
Program PICs using Linux
Hack a Day has a how-to on programming PICs under Linux with the open source SDCC compiler.
I2C / SPI character LCD backpack
Adafruit has a clever new I2C/SPI LCD backpack based on an MCP23008 IO expander and a 74HC595 IO expander.
USB POV Toy: miniscope v3
We wanted an easy way to see the accelerometer data from the USB POV Toy. We made a simple firmware that works with the miniscope v3 oscilloscope program. Instead of sending voltage readings, it sends the accelerometer data from one axis. This screenshot shows the change in readings while we wave the POV Toy back […]
Hack the IM-ME and extract the sprites
Joby used the Bus Pirate SPI sniffer to extra zombie graphics from an IM-ME. Yesterday, Travis Goodspeed wrote a good post about bitmapped sprites on the IM-me. As a teaser of his upcoming ZombieGotcha game, he released a binary for a demo and challenged people to extract the images and recreate the startup animation. And […]
USB IR Toy back in stock
The USB IR Toy is back in stock at Seeed Studio, get one for $20, including worldwide shipping.
USB POV Toy: Soldered prototype
Here’s the soldered prototype of the USB POV Toy. The first power up exploded a backwards tantalum capacitor with an impressive spark, but after that was sorted everything seems to be ok. The tiny MMA7455L accelerometer took a few tries to solder, but now we can access it with the Bus Pirate using I2C or […]
Reactions: MPLAB X IDE
Florin likes the new MPLAB X: …new functions like code auto-complete, the ability to preselect which tools are used on which project, history, its gonna be a hit. I think the most useful function in MPLAB X is the history which allows you to go back and remove modifications you’ve made to the code. MPLAB […]
Hack the MD80 firmware to remove the date display
Villamany got a cheap MD80 video camera from eBay. It has a really annoying feature, it prints the date on the video with no apparent way to disable it. Armed with a Bus Pirate, he dumped the firmware, removed the date, and reprogrammed the camera. Original in Spanish (machine translation). What are you hacking with […]
Parts! November 2010
A box of parts arrived from Mouser today. We’re not affiliated with them in any way, just sharing our excitement over a big box of parts.
Bus Pirate PC rescue
The Bus Pirate saves a router, and still has time to rescue a PC. I had a dead PC after a BIOS update went wrong. flashrom and bus pirate to the rescue :-) We always like to hear your Bus Pirate success stories. You can get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide […]