This is something that really interests us, connecting your Microcontrollers up to some sort of GUI in order to control it. This small project was originally just connected using a USB Cable (but that was boring!). We have connected up a HC-06 Bluetooth module to an Arduino and are able to control it from a … Read more
Strange title isn’t it. I’ll explain what I mean… A few days ago, my significant other handed me a cheap, nasty computer mouse and a cheap, nasty USB sparkly, colour changing, desk ornament thing and asked me to fix them. Of course I said “yes”, I daren’t say otherwise. She wanted the desk ornament … Read more
Something we’ve been working towards is building a homebrew CPU from scratch in CPLD. If you’ve seen any of our “Getting Started with CPLDs” guide, you might have noticed that we’re working towards completing the ALU before we can start adding proper CPU features to it. This article is less about the CPLD side of … Read more
Here are the steps I took to make this tiny package useful for prototyping purposes. It’s by no means pretty but it will allow us to use the temperature switch on a breadboard. Now you can see why I laughed so hard. My first step was to find some wire thin enough so connect to … Read more
What robotics project doesn’t need eyes? By eyes we’re referring to HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensors. We have put together a quick and easy library to get started with using these sensors. The HC-SR04 is a low cost, easy to use sensor that will measure distance by bouncing ultrasonic sound waves off of obstacles in front of … Read more