Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Arduino Matrix Orbital LCD Library
I’ve had an old USB LCD sitting in my htpc for the past few years. I no longer used it for display purposes; it wasn’t even plugged into a USB port. I knew there had to be a way for me to re purpose it for an arduino.
Luckily for me I was not the first [...]
ATX Variable DC Power Supply
Every good workbench needs a dc power supply, and mine is no different. With the upcoming projects I have in mind several things will be running off of battery power. And rather than be constantly recharging batteries I thought it was time to build my own power source.
There is a wealth of information out there [...]
Building An Electronics Workbench
After the construction of laserpup I realized that my office desk was no place to be working on electronics projects. Soldering, prototyping, testing, these are all things that I knew I would be spending a lot of time doing in the future, and I wanted a comfortable place where I can take over the world….
I [...]
LaserPup - Javascript Examples
As promised here is an overview of how I did the javascript code for LaserPup.
Creating the Image Map
I created an imagemap of the circle graphic that passes the x & y coordinates of the image to a javascript function when clicked. The imagemap breaks the graphic into clickable 8×8 squares, I wrote a quick [...]
LaserPup - The Internet Enabled Dog Toy
Introduction
Over the past few weeks I have read about several projects for the iobridge: internet dog feeder, Jason’s fish cam, and the servo-beer. These got me thinking about small projects that I could use the new device for. It didn’t take very long before I came up with idea for LaserPup. One [...]
ioBridge RJ45 Breakout Board
My new iobridge is great, and I already have several project ideas. The problem I faced was how to connect multiple projects, in different locations of my house, to one central iobridge. Ethernet is the cheapest multi-wire cable I could think of, with 8 separate wires it will pass enough signals for most projects. As [...]