Category Archives: Hardware

µBOT v3 – An experiment in making a small robot (part 1)

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Shane Ormonde

This idea of making a small robot has been knocking around my head for the past few years. Here is the original design (v1) from a few years ago: I made a mistake when programming the “fuses” on the AVR … Continue reading →

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Laser Cut Mount for PS3 Eye Toy and Laser Line Scanner

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Shane Ormonde

A few years ago I made a 2d line scanner using a webcam and a laser. It worked pretty well but two major improvements needed were the addition of a line laser as opposed to a dot and using a … Continue reading →

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Bare bones programming of the TM4c123G ARM Cortex m4 microcontroller

Posted on April 14, 2016 by wattnotions

This post will document one possible way of getting an LED blinking with the tm4c123g microcontroller. I’ll be using the TIVA C Launchpad for this example: A toolchain is needed to compile and link our code. I used this one: … Continue reading →

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atmega16u2 virtual serial example using LUFA Library

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Shane Ormonde

Sending data from a microcontroller is a pretty common requirement in a lot of the projects I work on. One way of doing it is sending serial data out from the uC to a serial to usb converter chip to … Continue reading →

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