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In the latest Electronic Design magazine there is a great article about the latest small projector chips from Syndiant. If you are interested in how the technology works Syndiant has a write up about that here. [via]
Tiny Syndiant Pico Projector – [Link]
web.mit.edu/kimt/www/radar/ writes:
The “Cantenna Radar” is a radar project that we (Tony Hyun Kim, Nevada Sanchez, Paresh Malalur) assembled from a kit provided by Lincoln Labs for an IAP 2011 course at MIT. The name “Cantenna” derives from the fact that the antenna actuators are actually recycled coffee cans! Photographs and basic schematic of the device are shown below:
Coffee can radar – [Link]
How much Wh capacity does a typical Alkaline AA battery have? Dave intends to find out with his new Gossen Metrawatt Metrahit Energy multimeter
AA Alkaline Battery Capacity Measurement – [Link]
This is a super-accurate clock that uses ping-pong balls as diffusers for LEDs, but with a little know-how you can turn this into a full marquee display. [via]
Ping Pong LED Clock - [Link]
ian writes:
A simple development board seems like a fun project. I’m recording my ideas here, and hope to get some input from other members of the ‘uC (or anyone else).
To avoid feature creep, I think several levels of dev-board would be a good idea. This page will describe my ideas for a level one board, I will add pages for additional boards as ideas arise.
A simple PIC development board – [Link]
ian writes:
Programming microcontrollers isn’t hard. Building a programmer makes a great first electronics project. The goal of this instructable is to explain the simple ‘in circuit serial programming’ method used with Microchip PICs.
Understanding ICSP for PIC Microcontrollers – [Link]
smartie_on_computer writes: [via]
For the past two years, I’ve been planning to build myself a 3D printer from some old Inkjet printers I had collected over the years. But not until two weeks ago had I actually started to work on it.
The 3D printer I want to made uses a ink jets to print a chemical onto a building platform. The building platform has a goes down as a new layer of power is spread onto it and the chemical sprayed from the print head will cause powder to bind.
Emulating ink cartridges – [Link]
vahid_you2004 writes: [via]
I always was thinking of a measuring tape that never ends and be able to measure very long things. So I decided to make a small odometer and use it as a digital measuring tape. I used a PIC16F819 microcontroller and a sensor from an old computer mouse (the remaining parts of one of my other projects Crazy Mouse) to make this simple measuring tape. Do you want to make yourself? If yes read the rest of this instructable.
Digital Measuring Tape – [Link]
dangerousprototypes.com writes:
Imagecraft has released the demo version of their ICCV8 C compiler tool for Atmel AVR microcontrollers. The demo version is unlimited for 45 days, and code limited thereafter to 64K, non-commercial use only.
Rapid app development with AVR App Builder – [Link]
