Motor controllers for cheap robots

An instructables on motor controllers for cheap robots  by JayWeeks Almost every robot needs to power a motor of some sort or another. Problem is that motors take quite a lot of power, compared to what most microcontrollers operate with. To solve this problem, robots use what is called a motor controller, which usually amounts […]

ChipStomp, a digital effects pedal with a ChipKit DP32 and Stompshield

Catmacey has been working on a digital guitar effects processor based on a PIC32MX, the  ChipStomp: Here’s another “Guitar stomp box” project… This one combines a Chipkit DP32 (PIC32MX) with an Open music labs Stomp Shield to sample audio, mess with it and squirt it back out at 44Khz. It uses the built-in 10bit ADC for input […]

Proverbial LED blink program for chipKit DP32

Ras B blogged about his chipKIT DP 32  he won in our last week chipKIt  giveaway: Ok I just could not resist, and had to post the Proverbial Led blink Program adapted for the DP32, that has 4 LED’s on the board ( Digital Pins 11 to 14). Will scroll them from right to left, speed varying on the […]