Category: Mcu
Open Board for 3D Gesture Control, Motion Capturing, Tracking and Robotics
Milan, Italy, July 26, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Next Industries show off The Tactigon: the perfect link between humans or objects and the digital world, with its IMU 3D features, environmental sensors and Bluetooth 4.0 technology. The Tactigon is a unique platform, programmable with...
Continue ReadingTurn Your Fidget Spinner Into A Vision Display
Fidget spinner became a popular toy earlier in 2017. Most of us have one or at least have tried it. Consists of a bearing surrounded by a three-lobed flat structure, it can spin along its axis with a little effort. Makers and hardware hackers always try to employ different tools to...
Continue ReadingArduino PICO, The Tiny Arduino-Compatible Board
MellBell, the Canadian-based hardware and electronics company, has launched their first product: Arduino PICO! At first, the company says that Arduino PICO is the smallest Arduino compatible board ever, since it is 0.6" x 0.6" inch sized (~15mm squared). This tiny fully-fledged...
Continue Reading16X2 LCD Shield with LMD18201 Motor Driver
LCD is very important part of many DIY and industrial projects. The 16X2 LCD shield has been designed to develop LCD related projects using 28-40 Pin Pic development board or DSpic development board, along with LCD this shield includes LMD18201 DC Motor driver , 2 Trimmer...
Continue ReadingSTM32 Arduino compatible board
HardiqV @ instructables.com build an alternative board to Arduino using STM 32 series of mcus. We love the Arduino board and it's prototyping platform . It makes the complete prototyping process smooth and enjoying with the help of it's add on such as Arduino IDE and a huge community...
Continue ReadingAre Today’s MCUs Overdesigned? A Research Team Has The Answer
MCUs are called microcontrollers because they embed a CPU, memory and I/O units in one package. Apparently, today's MCUs are full of peripherals and in most cases they are not used in the application, and from an engineering point of view this is a waste of money and energy, but on the...
Continue ReadingSolr: Digital Wrist Watch Calculates time from Sun Position
Time can be calculated using the azimuth of the sun (aka solar time). Based on this idea, Tinkerman has built an unusual project called Solr. The concept is to translate the position of the sun into time presented on a vintage display. This new digital watch is freak enough to work only...
Continue ReadingBreadboard Friendly ATTiny85
Chris @ chris3d.com build his own Attiny85 board: The modularity of Arduinos is great, but after playing with them for a year or so, I wanted to start building things that needed a little more integration. I also wanted to design the components and programming around the actual...
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