On your mark! Get set ! Go!

"When the starting gun fires, it is up to each runner to decide how he will run the race. This decision will ultimately determine who will become the winners. "

remote control beetles for spying..(i guess)

i found this interesting breakthrough by university of California via hackaday
control a beetle using 6 electrodes...
control a living being like R/C helicopter

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22039/?nlid=1733&a=f

after long time...

black , red & white ...

why?

8x8 Led matrix display

this is quick project is done for one of my friend:) . the objective is to display some pattern on the led
matrix where user can customize the displaying pattern through the host pc.for this purpose i have used pic16f877A ,ULN2003 and max233 rs232 transceiver circuit.here is the video of the led matrix.

microchip pic platform v 1.0.0 pcb

routing of the pic platform is finished. As i planned to do a single layer pcb(bottom) i have to use some jumper wires .also i have to replace the some connector pin configuration to ease the routing.


















the schematics and Board layout was designed using Eagle PCB freeware.

ISP 12

nice console to program Atmel avrs in Serial programming mode.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbolt/e-spider_prog.html

AVR Tutorial for beginners

i found following tutorial is very useful and simple AVR tutorial for beginners.
http://www.opend.co.za/tutorials/avrtut1.htm
tutorial includes to build up In Circuit Programmer and examples of using ADC,RS232.....