Zak Kemble wrote a post on his blog showing how he modified the RAMs Serial Presence Detect (SPD) data: Recently I brought some low-power Mini-ITX motherboards; a Gigabyte GA-N3050N-D3H and a Biostar N3050NH. These boards take SO-DIMM DDR3 RAM, the sort found in laptops. The boards are both pretty much the same, however the Gigabyte board lacks […]
Category Archives: Arduino
Arduino Shield for custom board CPLD programming and testing using pogo pins
Marcelo Jimenez wrote a post about a shield he did using pogo pins to program and test a CPLD based board. The photo above shows the support for the board to be programmed with the pogo pins at the center, the board itself and the top shield. I have used two identical shield boards and have […]
mavroOBD, an open source Arduino compatible OBD/Can-Bus module
Mavromatics’ open source project designed to “hack” your vehicle, that is available on github: The goal of this project it to create an Arduino based OBD port module that can be used to enhance a vehicles capabilites. For example, if you want door locks to close when moving faster than 5mph or to invoke/emulate certain […]
Arduino MPPT solar charger shield
Lukas Fässler made an MPPT solar charger project and wrote a post on his blog detailing its assembly: The basic idea behind an MPPT solar charger is simple. A solar panel has a certain voltage (in the region of 17 to 18 volts for a 12 volts pannel, somwhat dependent on temperature) at which it […]
Simple Arduino SD-Card GPS/NMEA Datalogger
KF5OBS writes: This article is going to show how to build a minimalistic GPS datalogger. The GPS logger is based on the Arduino platform and stores raw NMEA sentences from pretty much any GPS module to a SD card. More details at KF5OBS blog.
Ultimate classic game console joystick to USB adapter
Matthew Heironimus posted a step by step guide of his “ultimate” classic game console joystick to USB adapter build: This article describes how to use an Arduino Leonardo or Arduino Micro to make up to three classic console joysticks (e.g. Atari 2600, ColecoVision, and possibly others) available to a modern computer (e.g. Windows PC, Mac, or […]
Control your Arduino over the Internet using Blynk
John Boxall from Tronixstuff has written an article on using Blynk with Arduino: There are many ways of remotely-controlling your Arduino or compatible hardware over the Internet. Some are more complex than others, which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on your level of expertise. Lately we’ve become more interested in this topic […]
Paint Machine, a printer that prints small bitmaps on the street
Alex Weber has posted a new project on building a DIY Paint Machine, he writes: Here is my latest creature, the Paint Machine. It’s a machine the prints simple bitmaps with spray chalk on the street or sidewalk. Some of the key features: *dimension: width: 220cm, length: 38cm, height: 24cm, weight: 12kg *printing speed: ca. 0.036 km/h […]
Arduino Mini CNC Plotter Machine from DVD drives
An instructables on how to make an Arduino based mini CNC plotter from old DVD drives by Ardumotive_com: For the X and Y axes we will use two stepper motors and rails from dvd/cd drives and for the Z axis we will use a small servo motor that moves the pen up and down. For the mounting […]
Homebrew SWR and power meter
Flathagen blogged about his DIY SWR meter project: The circuit is based on two AD8307 log amplifiers, which are connected to the forward and reflected ports on a directional coupler. The AD8307 amplifiers gives a DC voltage of about 25mV/dB of the input signal, which is amplified using an opamp (LM324). The opamp also provides the […]
ArTICL: Arduino and MSP432 Launchpad to TI graphing calculator linking
KermMartian over at Cemetech forum writes: A few weeks ago, I received a pair of MSP432 Launchpad development boards courtesy of Texas Instruments, and two weeks ago, I began porting ArTICL to the MSP432. I’m happy to announce that ArTICL is now available to MSP432 Launchpad programs. First developed last year as an upgrade to my […]
Soldering iron + Nodemcu = IoT device
Vegard Paulsen blogged about his soldering-iron #IoT project: My trusty old soldering-iron recently got an upgrade! With the help of a NodeMCU. a RGB-LED it now reports the set temperature to the #IoT Thingspeak.com server through WIFI. It also sends me Prowl messages on my Iphone when I forget to turn it off. It all […]
DIY PWM to PPM converter for 2.4GHz receiver using Arduino
A DIY PWM to PPM converter using an Arduino Pro Mini from Al Prettybong. Oscar wrote a post on his blog detailing how Al made it: For radio receiver, there are a few output signal formats. The traditional and also most common type of RX signal is the PWM and basically PWM requires 1 cable […]
Simple Infrared PWM on Arduino, Part 3 – Hex IR Signals
The crew from AnalysIR has written up an article on Simple Infrared PWM on Arduino. This third part of a series will show you how to send Infrared signal using the Hex representation: In Part 1 of this series, we demonstrated how to send signals using soft or Simple Infrared PWM on Arduino. In our […]
Mesa-Video: 800×600 digital video for Arduinos over 2-wire serial Mesa-Bus
kevinhub88 writes: This post describes Mesa-Video, a low cost, low power, small size and fully Open Source Hardware and Software solution for providing 800×600 digital video for Arduino ( and other ) microcontrollers. Mesa-Video makes it quick and easy to display text and 24bit color graphics from any MCU using a single UART serial port […]
Olympus RS-24 foot pedal mod
Rupert Hirst writes: For a while now, I have been toying with the idea of modifying a transcriber foot pedal into a programmable HID device. This could be useful for those complicated keyboard macros , Push to Talk or even for a more natural feel in racing type games, although not with proportional control. Your […]
Simple scalar network analyzer
rheslip blogged about his simple scalar network analyzer project: The principle is to stimulate an electrical network with a sinewave and measure the magnitude of the response. If we sweep over a range of frequencies and measure the power transmitted through the network we can determine its frequency response. Transfer from the input port (1) […]
A JTAG/XSVF library for Arduino
Marcelo published a post on his blog about JTAG and the library he wrote. I have recently felt the need to incorporate a JTAG port in a project to program a hardware that contained a CPLD. The idea was to both program it and perform some integrity tests on the board. I imagined something using […]
Testing the Shinyei PPD42NS
From the comments on our Arduino dust sensor post, KH writes: The sensor can obviously measure dust concentrations, it also has to be placed and set up properly, and it gives useful readings. For hobby users like most of us, obviously calibration to specific or absolute standards will be almost impossible. More details at Darell […]
Mearm forked
Bajdi’s self designed version of the mearm using 3 stepper motors: Since I was not very happy with the original design I decided to make my own version. Goal was to make it much simpler to print, less pieces that don’t need to be so accurate to fit together. I used freecad to design my […]