I have certainly not posted enough on this blog. A lot of changes happened between June last year and now; I changed job locations and have just now gotten the swing back to normal. It's time to pick it back up again.3D Scanner - I've been working up a new design that uses angles instead …
NintendoDS Touch Screen to LCD
Tonight's project was not very hard to do, but I wanted to get the NintendoDS to send output to the LCD. I plugged in the NintendoDS screen and the LCD screen the way I've done before in previous tutorials. If you want to know how to wire the LCD you can go here (http://arduino.cc/en/uploads/Tutorial/LCD_bb.png). Plugging …
Project 2 – the Nintendo DS Screen
I said, in the last post, that the second project was actually going to be soldering the breadboard for the distance tracker... I decided to get some help from some EEs to get that done instead of try to figure it all out on my own. Since the Nintendo DS screen is right here...Parts needed:1) …
First Summer Project — Distance to LCD
The first project for the summer is a quick prototype to plug in an LCD screen and a PING))) from parallax to interface with an Arduino [the second project will be to write the code for the AVR and then solder some connectors to a breadboard, plug in the AVR, LCD, PING, and 9V power …
New electronics
I was warned that once I entered the realm of the Arduino (I have the Arduino Mega 2560) that I would be addicted... They were wrong! [not really, but I don't want them to think me weak] -- the truth is that they are very addicting. Once I followed the tutorials by newbiehack.com microcontrollers were …
ArduinoMEGA update
I've been looking at various setups and playing with a lot of electronics. I have a cabinet that is full of my electrical needs so I can play with the portions that I need to to enhance the value of my 3d laser scanner and printer as I push forward.I love my AVR microcontrollers and …
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