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CheapStat: an open-source potentiostat11 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 8 months ago: A commercial potentiostat can cost several thousand dollars, but the CheapStat is an open source pro … more →

Tags: chemistry hacks, Medical hacks, cheapstat, Java, potentiostat, usb

My magic AVR build script

omegacs wrote 9 months ago: Don’t get me wrong, I like make…  Hah! Yeah, right! make has its place, no doubt, but sm … more →

Tags: Software 2., AVR, Software

Ever wonder where cool interactive museum exhibits come from?13 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 9 months ago: [Victor's] girlfriend works at a museum and enlisted his expertise in designing an interactive detec … more →

Tags: microcontrollers, Telephone, SD, Fat, DTMF, museum

Regarding Atmel's Xmega chips34 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 10 months ago: A few years back Atmel announced a new line of chips, the XMega series. We see the name bouncing aro … more →

Tags: microcontrollers, Atmel, xmega128a1

DIY HVAC zoning

omegacs wrote 11 months ago: Last December (just in time for the “perfect storm” of energy credits…) we had a n … more →

Tags: Misc, DMX 512, HVAC

Xprotolab: oscilloscope and Xmega development board26 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a nice hands-on overview of the Xprotolab, a development board based around the AVR ATx … more →

Tags: microcontrollers, AVR, oscilloscope, xprotolab, ATXMEGA32A4

The world's smallest oscilloscope??9 comments

John Boxall wrote 1 year ago: Hello readers Today we examine a tiny and fascinating piece of test equipment from Gabotronics … more →

Tags: Part Review, oscilloscope, Review, Kit, LCD, tronixstuff, DSO, Tutorial, Tutorials

Graphic demonstration of remote clock sync

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: So I’ve been perfecting the method I use in my current project to sync up the two clocks. … more →

Tags: Software 2., Software, clocking

Data logging football6 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 year ago: [Ben Kokes] threw together a hardware package to capture data from a football. In the center of a Ne … more →

Tags: toy hacks, microcontrollers, Accelerometer, Compass, Football, gyroscope, nerf

Abirtrary clock generation (with benefits)1 comment

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: The product I’m working on right now has a load of very arcane requirements, forcing me to del … more →

Tags: Misc, pcb, Software, clocking

Life Update and Checkerbot Follow Up

bradsprojects wrote 1 year ago: Wow, it’s been altogether too long since I’ve posted.  Fortunately, and this is importan … more →

Tags: General, Project Description, Philosophy, MicroController, AVR, xbee, avr-gcc, checkers, computer vision

Desktop disaster of the day4 comments

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a shot of my desk from yesterday:  The red boards on the right are SparkFun FT232RL ad … more →

Tags: Misc, usb, pcb

Xmega fractional baud-rate source code2 comments

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: Earlier I posted a spreadsheet I created that calculated the BSEL and BSCALE for the Xmega’s f … more →

Tags: gettingstartedwithxmega, Software

Reduced-pin-count program+debug connector for Xmega1 comment

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been struggling recently with the extremely small JST SH connectors, which are 1.0mm crim … more →

Tags: Software 2., Software

Getting started with Xmega: differences from ATmega (part 2)2 comments

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: In Part 1 I explained some of the high-level differences between the older ATmega and the newer Xmeg … more →

Tags: gettingstartedwithxmega, GettingStarted

Getting started with Xmega: differences from ATmega (part 1)

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: To start out this series on getting started with Atmel’s new Xmega chips, I first need to expl … more →

Tags: gettingstartedwithxmega, GettingStarted

Xmega USART fractional baud-rate speadsheet4 comments

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: The default baud rate on the Bluetooth adapters I’m using to program and debug the current gen … more →

Tags: gettingstartedwithxmega, Software

Misc updates

omegacs wrote 1 year ago: I’ve kindof neglected my blog for the past week, so I thought I’d post an update of what … more →

Tags: Misc, LED, DMX 512, Software

DMX-512 transmission successful

omegacs wrote 2 years ago: Some fairly quick software work and I’ve got a baseline for DMX transmission from the Xmega DM … more →

Tags: Lighting 2, DMX 512, Software


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