Arduino
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Arduino Powered Cat Feeder Feeds Cats, Has Lasers
We’ve got a cool video here to ease your Friday boredom and hopefully ignite some creative sparks! This one is all about hooking your pets up with some hacker-style technology, in this case cats. According to project creator Andres Leon, this is an “Arduino-based laser controlled wireless automatic cat food dispenser.” Yes, that’s a mouthful,…
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Remote controlled balancing robot !
Hey everyone! Today we have an excellent open source project to show you, Wily made a very cool self-balancing robot controlled by a Wii Nunchuck! Before we continue talking about it please enjoy watching this video where he shows off his build while it’s chasing a cute pet: As you see in the video above…
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Undocumented Dx display running with an FPGA
He everyone! Today we got another great FPGA based project for you that we found over at hamsterworks.co.nz. Mike Field a.k.a Hamster wanted to use an undocumented display board from Deal Extreme with an FPGA board but as mentioned in the title there was absolutely no documentation available for this display except an Arduino Library written…
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3-Axis IMU working with a Papilio One
Hey everyone! Here is a new exciting project that has just been realized by Papilio user Laurent Siou, he has successfully made a 3-Axis IMU with a Papilio One 250k board!! Laurent’s goal was to realize an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) for a camera and take in-flight stabilized videos. His particular design is comprised of…
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ZPUino 1.0 version is now officially released
We are pleased to be working with Alvaro Lopes to coordinate the release of the ZPUino 1.0 with the release of our new Audio MIDI Wing. The new ZPUino release is packed with so many goodies that it is enabling a whole new breed of Audio and Video applications for the Papilio! “ZPUino 1.0 is…
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ZPUino 1.0 Release Coming Soon!
The ZPUino is a 32 bit processor running at 100Mhz with an integrated VGA display adapter and YM2149 sound processor. Everything is controlled by a sketch and an easy to use VGA library from the Arduino IDE. The good news is that a 1.0 version of the ZPUino will be released soon probably before the…
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Programming guitar pedal effects with Arduino
“Deadbird is a passionate guitar player and has “right” hands for electronics. This is all you need to avoid high expenses on equipment. So he wanted to squeeze out some more from his Whammy 4 guitar pedal by stuffing someMIDI commands to it. Of course one way to do this is to use aMIDI controller…