Archive for the 'Embedded' Category



Wiimote controlled robot

Wednesday 5 September 2007 @ 9:42 am

The Wiimote makes a perfect control system for a fire fighting robot.

It has IR sensors which can detect a candle and a bluetooth transciever to communicate back to a host computer. I use a boebot as the robot platform, an arduino, wiimote and a Linux computer.
The wiimote uses its IR sensor to find the candle. […]




Build 89C51 PABX

Monday 3 September 2007 @ 10:07 pm

Introduction
This project is basically an eight line intercom from which you can call 1 to 8 number. This system also support dialing and receiving telephone calls. ?

Figure 1:?? Block Diagram of the 89C51 PABx
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How to use

Pick your hand set, the dial tone will be listen now dial 1 to 8 number if the busy tone […]




DIY A $10 ATA

Monday 3 September 2007 @ 9:32 pm

In October 2006 I made my way to Dharamsala, northern India, where I visited the Tibetan Technology Center, and in particular a guy named Yahel Ben-David.

You see I am interested in developing low cost open hardware technology that can help people in the developing world. Yahel and the team at Tibtec are using commodity routers […]




DIY an Embedded Asterisk PBX: Part 1

Monday 3 September 2007 @ 8:43 pm

Over the last few days I have been bringing some telephony hardware to life. I have finally obtained all the parts I need and am assembling, testing, and blogging as I go!
This work is part of a project to develop and build




DIY PIC Oscilloscope

Thursday 30 August 2007 @ 1:03 pm

This is a simple PC voltage oscilloscope using only a PIC12F675, a 20MHz oscillator, and a RS232 level shifter. The PIC takes a sample on GP2, immediately sends it to the PC at 115,200 baud using an software asynchronous serial routine, and repeats. It sends a 8-bit value that is read by the Visual Basic […]




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