right here a straight-forward guide for tapping into the buttons on a lot of gaming controllers. Why do something like this? Well there’s always the goal of conquering Mario with maker learning. however we hope this will even more inspire hackers to donate their time as well as competence establishing specialized controllers for the disabled.…
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[Chonggang Li] wrote in to share a link to the final project he and [Ran Hu] built for their embedded systems class. It’s called Piano Hero and uses an FPGA to implement a camera-based touch screen system. All of the hardware used in the project is shown above. The monitor acts as the keyboard, using an image produced…
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A couple of weeks back one of our engineers woke up as well as checked out that HackADay was going up for sale. His very first reaction was much the exact same as many routine visitors of HackADay, he was concerned as well as concerned that a site that he has checked out everyday for…
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exactly how lucky is [Transistor Man] that he discovered the materials for the tracks of this curved video camera dolly just lying around the shop? The three rails making up the system are quarter-inch diameter as well as he was able to bend them by hand with the assist of a 55 gallon drum. however…
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A few years ago, Microchip acquired Atmel for $3.56 Billion. There are plenty of producers of 8-bit microcontrollers, but everyone makes 8051s, as well as the MSP430 isn’t as prominent as it ought to be. Microchip’s acquisition of Atmel created what is most likely the largest producer of 8-bit micros, with a portfolio ranging from ATtinys…
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[Teknynja] was searching for a way to control a number of discrete AC-powered devices using a microcontroller, as well as while he did think about the Powerswitch tail 2 from Adafruit, dealing with 5 devices would get quite expensive. rather than purchasing a total off the shelf solution, he chose to develop his own 5-way…
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[Jack Boland], a mechanical engineer at the university of Wisconsin, developed a great hanging plotter job called HangBot. It’s a relatively common setup, where he converts an picture to G-Code files, as well as it is plotted utilizing two stepper motors for control. We’ve seen vertical plotters before, however they tend to only have a…
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For [Eric]’s entry for our Fubarino Contest, he went down to very low-level hardware and created Pong on an FPGA. [Eric] used a Basys 2 FPGA board to create this virtual, logic gate version of Pong. Output is via the VGA port, multiplayer and an AI player is implemented, and all the required mechanics for Pong…
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A few years ago, [Addie] over at Tymkrs put together a spooky little Halloween project: a small Propeller board that emulates the electrical signals in a heart. As a cardiac nurse, she thought her project could use a little improvement, and after two years she’s finally done. It’s a heart-shaped board that simulates electrical signals…
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